PSV C2 appears to be losing every time they have to play in Rotterdam. After defeats against Feijenoord C2 in the autumn competition and recently against Excelsior C2, they suffered a costly defeat today in the away match against Sparta C2.
Sparta C2 started the match brighter than PSV C2, and PSV C2 was constantly hounded and cornered by the physically stronger opponent from the beginning of the match. After five minutes of play, Sparta C2 fired the first warning shot, which landed just wide of PSV C2's goal. The central defenders of Sparta C2 had adjusted well to the attacking play of PSV C2 and managed to defuse every PSV C2 attack quickly. After fifteen minutes of play, a Sparta C2 attacker managed to break through the PSV C2 defense and was stopped illegally. The penalty was expertly used by Sparta C2 (1-0). After this, there were a number of opportunities for Sparta C2 to increase the lead, but the Spartans' sights were not yet set. In the twenty-fifth minute Jeroen Meefout was sent away well in depth by Rai Vloet and managed to outsmart his direct opponent at speed. His lob was narrowly saved by the good goalkeeper of Sparta C2 and Michael Maria's rebound was turned into a corner by the Sparta C2 goalkeeper.
After halftime, PSV C2 had the best of the game. In the fifty-second minute, Endy Opoku Bernadina slalomed past a couple of opponents and laid the ball well back to Jeroen Meefout, who again saw his shot denied by the Sparta C2 goalkeeper. On the counter attack, Sparta C2 managed to extend the lead (2-0). PSV C2 went one on one and had an excellent chance to score the tying goal through substitute Andreas Hoelgebaum Perreira. However, the Sparta C2 goalkeeper thought otherwise and he managed to get a hand to it again.
The insertion of Clint Leemans appeared to yield immediate results when he managed to promote his first ball contact to a goal (2-1). However, the time left to PSV C2 was too short to 'hurt' Sparta C2 again, resulting in their second defeat in the spring competition.
From the father of Stan Bijl (goalkeeper of AJAX C3) I received the following message about Elroy Tuur (AJAX C3): Dear Peter, fortunately Elroy is doing well. It indeed looked nasty at first. After checking in the hospital it turned out that it was not that bad. He had and still has problems with his neck. For now no training. Thanks for the interest and good luck in the competition. Gr. Ruud (father stan).
Report with thanks to Peter Meefout