PSV enters the international break as the league leader. In Leeuwarden, they defeated SC Cambuur 5–2, thanks in part to a hat-trick by Sven Mijnans. This allows them to take full advantage of their competitors’ loss of points.
Peter Bosz ’s team won convincingly on Sunday afternoon, scoring five goals. It is the second time this season that PSV has scored at least five goals in an away game (1–6 against FC Utrecht in August). That is already as many times as in the entire previous season, when they also managed to do so twice. PSV were already 0–3 up by the nineteenth minute. That is the fastest three-goal lead in an away match in the Eredivisie since Sunday 25 April VriendenLoterij s. On that occasion, PSV had already reached that score against sc Heerenveen after just eleven minutes (final score 0–8). They also took the lead against SC Cambuur after just 46 seconds. It is the second time in 2026 that PSV have scored within a minute (after 33 seconds in May against Ajax).
Sven Mijnans
Sven Mijnans has only been playing for PSV since the summer. Yet he already scored his second hat-trick yesterday. That brings his league tally to nine. That matches the tally of Wout Weghorst, Sören Tengstedt and Brynjólfur Willumsson, so the quartet now lead the VriendenLoterij Eredivisie scoring chart. He is only the second PSV player to net two hat-tricks in his first ten VriendenLoterij Eredivisie matches. He has now scored in three consecutive league matches for the first time.
First Goal
For Ayoni Santos, it turned out to be an especially memorable day. He scored his first goal in a PSV shirt. In the65th minute, he came on as a substitute for Ruben van Bommel, and then tapped the ball into the net in stoppage time following a cross from Kodai Sano. On Friday he had played with PSV U21 in and against Venlo, so in a single weekend the forward visited the two provinces at opposite ends of the country.
Top Spot
Due to Feyenoord’s loss in Heerenveen and Ajax’s loss in Enschede, PSV is back at the top of the league after twelve matchdays. After the international break, the match against N.E.C. Nijmegen awaits, followed by the away game against Real Madrid.