Today the penultimate home game of the league against SBC was scheduled. With a win, they knew for sure that the last home game will be the championship game.
PSV opened aggressively but soon forgot to score the opening goal. A Brent effort and two shots by Davy lacked precision. With so much pressure on the goal, the opening goal was inevitable, and after good preparatory work by Joop, Gregory managed to work a blocked shot into the net: 1-0.
Where normally this is the starting signal for more fireworks, today it just didn't work out. The SBC defense was solid and our boys could hardly get through.
Player after player got stuck on the SBC wall. Fortunately Joop was alert to a cross from Davy, making it 2-0 after 10 minutes.
SBC drew strength from the fact that PSV was not doing well today. Hesitant action by the rearguard was punished by an SBC player. From close range he was able to take a free kick: 2-1.
Fortunately, PSV was able to correct this mistake immediately. Once again it was Joop who headed in a cross from Davy: 3-1. However, the final chord of the first half was again for the guests from Son. Once again a player was given free rein. Merijn managed to get his fingers to the ball but it ended up at the feet of an SBC player: 3-2.
Bastiaan's assignment for the second half was clear: try to pass the ball to another player sooner, without getting stuck every time. The boys picked up the assignment well. The second half was indeed better than the first, but the opposition remained enormous (for which the compliments).
The always diligent Joey saw his shot disappear via a leg with an arc over the goalkeeper into the goal, making it 4-2. Moments later, an awarded free kick was shot in hard and clean by Davy: 5-2. In the end, Kyan had some luck when an identical free kick disappeared just over the goal.
It took some getting used to not getting a monster score, but well deserved the 3 points stayed at the Herdgang.
Fortunately our boys are made of flesh and blood. Let's just say that the fireworks will be delivered again next week when we can pop the champagne at home against Nuenen!