When PSV take on Feyenoord on Sunday afternoon, it will do so in the knowledge that it has been unbeaten for 11 Eredivisie games in a row. The club has not lost since the loss against Ajax on March 20 this year, which nearly killed PSV in the battle for the title.
Impressive Feyenoord run
Feyenoord can boast a run that is even more impressive: the last Premier League loss dates back to Valentine's Day this year, when PEC Zwolle were too strong 3-1. It was the last of a run of seven losses. Since then Feyenoord have only lost the Johan Cruijff Schaal against, yes, PSV. Davy Pröpper scored the only goal.
PSV wins more than half
The chances of either series being broken next Sunday seem considerable. In 60 previous editions of PSV-Feyenoord, the match ended in a draw only 9 times. 32 times PSV won, 19 times the points went on the bus to Rotterdam.
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PSV won at home from Feyenoord more often than it lost. Also the last PSV - Feyenoord was won by PSV
Zoet wants his fifth 'zero' in a row
Of two other series, one is going to fall anyway. Goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet has kept the zero in the past four league games and will be eager to make it five. At the same time, Feyenoord has scored at least once in its last 13 away games. One of those two will be a thing of the past after PSV - Feyenoord.
Topper
This season the two clubs' numbers are similar. Remarkably, Feyenoord have not scored a single goal from a standard situation out of their 15 goals, while three of PSV's 11 goals came from a free kick and one from a corner. Both teams have been very strong defensively so far: Feyenoord only got two goals against, PSV even only one. So a real topper awaits us.
A topper in Eindhoven between former teammates Phillip Cocu and Giovanni van Bronckhorst