Sunday, 20 August 2023 at 09:14 • Jordi Tomasowa • Last update: 10:18
PSV took home three hard-fought points on a visit to Vitesse on Saturday. After a weak first half due to a goal by ex-player Marco van Ginkel, the team from Eindhoven faced a 1-0 halftime score. Bosz then decided to make a triple substitution at half-time: Ismael Saibari, Guus Til and debutant Jerdy Schouten came on for Johan Bakayoko, Isaac Babadi and André Ramalho. The substitutions had an effect, because PSV still won big via Saibari, Yorbe Vertessen and Luuk de Jong (penalty): 1-3.
In the first half, a lot went wrong at PSV. “We were not good defensively and did not play well with the ball,” Bosz said at the press conference afterwards. “We have to move, play the ball quickly and not run with the ball if it is not necessary. We didn’t. After the break we took a different approach, with Jerdy Schouten in the last line.”
According to Bosz, there was a tactical idea behind Ramalho’s substitution for Schouten. “He could get into midfield in possession and then you create one more man there. Jerdy plays the ball to the same color, but the last ten minutes were very sloppy for us. Balls over five or ten meters that just go into the feet of the opponent, that is not possible. But we won. And that is the most important thing.”
Bosz saw that Ramalho had a hard time against Vitesse in the first half. “But also eight or nine others. I’ve considered substituting more players. Ramalho has not done well, but not alone. It is not right to single him out completely. I rate him very highly. He’s a real defender, a guy, a guy who wins his headers, who coaches, who stands well and who just had a really bad day today. If we had been ahead, I might not have changed him. Now it was different. The thought was now to create an extra man in midfield.”
Jerry Schouten
Jerdy Schouten did not expect to make his PSV debut as a central defender against Vitesse. The brand new acquisition of the team from Eindhoven indicated afterwards that it had only played a few times in the position. “I think I’ve done it twice in my whole life. So it was not very ordinary”, Schouten said with a smile. “I didn’t expect it to be honest. It’s not that I woke up today and thought: I’m going to fill in as a central defender at halftime.
2023-08-20 13:36:00
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