PSV will take on PEC Zwolle on Saturday afternoon. In recent years, that match has guaranteed many PSV goals. In the last three confrontations, PSV scored no less than seventeen times, while only allowing one goal against.
Matches follow one another in rapid succession in January. With the cup match against Excelsior still in the legs, the next challenge awaits Saturday. PSV and PEC Zwolle have faced each other 46 times in the Eredivisie. PSV won 34 times, six times the game ended in a draw and six times PEC Zwolle came out on top.
PEC Zwolle
PEC Zwolle started the second half of the season with a narrow but expensive defeat against N.E.C. (0-1). As a result, the Nijmegen side now take a three-point lead in the league table. Both teams went into the winter break with seventeen points, but PEC Zwolle is fourteenth in the Eredivisie after eighteen rounds of play, four points above the danger zone. PEC had no cup game this midweek, as it was already eliminated.
Dylan Vente is PEC Zwolle's top scorer with five goals in all competitions this season.
Record
PSV can break an Eredivisie record on Saturday. If it manages to beat PEC Zwolle, it will be the nineteenth victory in a row against the blue and white. With that, PSV would surpass the current record of eighteen consecutive wins that it holds itself. This record was set between 2005 and 2014 with eighteen wins over Willem II.
Luuk de Jong
For Luuk de Jong, games against PEC Zwolle are almost always successful. Although he did not score in the last game, he has already scored seventeen times against the Zwolle players. He did so in twelve matches, ten of which he was actually on the score sheet. In this season's home game, he had an excellent opportunity to increase that number further, but our captain then missed from eleven meters.
