The position in the ranking confirms his words. Halfway through the season (after seventeen games), PSV was the leader in the Eredivisie. Although Ajax defeated Fortuna Sittard 5-0 on Wednesday evening, PSV can start the Christmas dinner as ‘winter champion’ on Thursday – with a win over Go Ahead Eagles.
Few months ago, few would have dared to predict that.
At least not Schmidt himself, as witnessed by his comment that Ajax has an eighty percent chance of winning the title in his eyes. He made that statement after the 5-0 defeat against the team from Amsterdam and in the following weeks also maintained that the chance of an Eindhoven championship is only twenty percent.
But slowly that is starting to change. “It has become something more in the meantime”, the German smiles. “We are one point ahead of Ajax. That is not much, but it is still a point.”
nothing stolen
Moreover, Schmidt emphasizes, PSV did not steal the points. “We have achieved our points with good play. We have not won four of the seventeen duels. We have all rightly won the rest.”
“And that in difficult times, because we have had some problems with injuries. Anyway, we will see in the next seventeen games.”
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