While most teams had a day off, the B2 had to play the 2nd pool match in the 1st round of the cup competition. Opponent was the O16 of FC Twente, who took a long bus trip to make it clear to PSV that a game is only played when the referee has blown the final whistle.
PSV got off to an excellent start and translated that into a lead as early as the 7th minute. Captain Dante Rigo placed an awarded free kick some 20 meters outside and to the right of the Twente penalty area ready for the feet of the incoming Maarten Peijenburg, who was able to tap the ball in all free, 1-0. Apart from some smaller chances for both teams and an excellent save by goalkeeper Stef Tissen a few minutes before half time when a Twente attacker broke into his penalty area, not much happened worth mentioning in the 1st half.
PSV also started the 2nd half energetically with an early goal that immediately dashed Twente's hopes of an equalizer. In the 45th minute, Dante Rigo scored a fantastic goal after an excellent preparatory action by Karim Bannani, who dribbled almost across the back line into the Twente 16 and laid the ball back to the captain who was completely free on the edge of the 16. He had all the time in the world to lay on a beautiful kick that disappeared unmistakably into the crossbar, 2-0. With more than half an hour left on the clock, the motto is to 'close the game down', but PSV found out Saturday that that sounds as nice and simple as it is difficult. Just after and perhaps also because of PSV's 2-0, Twente became more dangerous and created their best chances of the match, while the Eindhoven lock appeared to falter. Due to 2 mistakes in PSV's defense, Twente managed to eliminate the 2-0 deficit in the space of less than 10 minutes, while well into injury time another great chance for the full win in Eindhoven was missed. Although PSV also had chances to take the win, they failed to do so and after the match there was a bad taste in their mouths that the 2-0 lead had not been held until the final signal.
In the group stage of the cup the next opponent is MVV. In the league, PSV plays an away game against Willem II/RKC next week.
'07 1-0 Maarten Peijnenburg
'45 2-0 Dante Rigo
'51 2-1
'60 2-2
Stef Tissen; Jordan Teze - Kaan Tanriver - Maarten Peijnenburg - Lassane Faye; Jaëll Hattu - Gaetan Bosiers - Dante Rigo; Elmo Hertogh ('64 Colin Bruisten) - Youandi Renfurm - Karim Bannani.
On the bench not substituted: Tim Latiers; Roel Cornelissen; Juul Respen; Vincent Boldt.
Yellow card: Karim Bannani.