Pre-season: PSV beat Nuenen 0-5

07 juli 2012 19:00

PSV continued their fine start to the pre-season campaign with a 0-5 win over amateurs RKSV Nuenen on Saturday afternoon. Dries Mertens and Jürgen Locadia scored a goal each in the first half, and second-half goals by Marcel Ritzmaier, Memphis Depay and Tim Matavz sealed the win.

Wijnaldum, who returned to Eindhoven earlier this week, was handed a start.

Wijnaldum and Hutchinson

After thrashing AZSV Aalten 0-11 in their first pre-season friendly on Wednesday, PSV claimed a 0-5 victory over RKSV Nuenen three days later. Georginio Wijnaldum and Atiba Hutchinson returned to the starting line-up after they had resumed pre-season training this week. Youngster Tufan Özbozkurt was also handed a start, while Marcelo did not get playing time due to a back problem. Mertens smashed in a free kick to open the scoring and Locadia doubled the lead on the stroke of half-time. Head coach Dick Advocaat made six changes at half-time. After the break, Ritzmaier, Depay and Matavz scored goals to seal a 0-5 victory. PSV will be next in action on Wednesday when they make a trip to Germany to face Rot-Weiβ Oberhausen. The Euro 2012 internationals will return to pre-season training at De Herdgang training facilities on Thursday.

Dries Mertens opened the scoring in Nuenen.

Match details:

PSV line-up (first half): Waterman, Manolev, Zanka, Locadia, Engelaar, Wijnaldum, Lens, Hutchinson, Mertens, Özbozkurt, Derijck.
PSV line-up (second half): Swinkels, Manolev, Koch, Zanka, Engelaar, Matavz, Wijnaldum, Depay, Özbozkurt (71. Locadia), Van Ooijen, Ritzmaier.

Goals: (32) Mertens 0-1, (41) Locadia 0-2, (56) Ritzmaier 0-3, (74) Depay 0-4, (89) Matavz 0-5.

Head coach Dick Advocaat issues instructions to his players on the touchline.

Stanislav Manolev vies for the ball.

PSV´s coaching staff.

Advocaat and the players signed many autographs after the game.