The PSV in the Picture comes this time on the day after PSV's WONDERFUL performance in the UEFA Champions League. We are through!
Ge-wel-dig "Finally, there's that explosion," not until the 87th minute was it certain. This won't go wrong for PSV anymore. Editors Bart Hoffman and Rob Burg of the Eindhovens Dagblad look back on the match with some supporters. Read here the article via Blendle. But of course the players and coach also have their say. 'With the best sixteen, it takes some getting used to,' says Joshua Brenet who played in his original spot for a while in the absence of Santiago Arias. Phillip Cocu did not want to look ahead to the next opponent after the match. 'May I enjoy this myself first,' said the coach.
<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="nl"><p lang="nl" dir="ltr">We are doooooooor! :-) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/psvcsk?src=hash">#psvcsk</a> <a href="https://t.co/eFgTzPJv2s">pic.twitter.com/eFgTzPJv2s</a></p>— PSV (@PSV) <a href="https://twitter.com/PSV/status/674344547183427585">December 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
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So we can do it after all! For nine years Dutch clubs were eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League. Until yesterday,' writes the AD on its front page. 'PSV gives Dutch football luster,' is the headline above the article by PSV-watcher Maarten Wijffels. 'Of the Rotterdam Kuip, everyone knows that the concrete sometimes vibrates when a goal is scored. But the Philips Stadium shook to its foundations last night just before half past ten when Davy Pröpper brought PSV and immediately the whole of Dutch football into ecstasy'. Read the full article here via Blendle.
Box office for PSV 'The PSV players had spoken full of bravado about the decisive duel in the run-up to the Champions League cracker, where no less than 7 million euros was at stake,' writes Jeroen Kapteijns in De Telegraaf. 'On the pitch they showed that that had not been boasting, but that the self-confidence was actually high.' Chief sports officer Jaap de Groot writes in his column that the 2015 football year can be closed with a smile after all, courtesy of PSV. 'Resulting in a place among the best 16 in Europe, with an eleven that still has plenty of stretch in it. Read his column here.
PSV is bright spot in bad football year 'It is the first time since 2006 that a Dutch team has qualified for the next round of the Champions League, the most important European club tournament. Back then it was also PSV that managed to 'overwinter', the club was eliminated in the quarterfinals', we read in NRC Next. Dutch football can use the success. Until yesterday it was a pitch black year, especially with the elimination of the Dutch team for the European Championship in France next summer. In addition, AZ and FC Groningen are already hopeless for the next round in the Europa League, the second European club tournament. Only Ajax still has a slim chance of qualifying for the knockout phase (last 32 teams) in that tournament.
<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="nl"><p lang="nl" dir="ltr">The match <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/psvcsk?src=hash">#psvcsk</a> was massively experienced on Twitter. Check out the highlights: <a href="https://t.co/GG2O3RkHi0">https://t.co/GG2O3RkHi0</a> <a href="https://t.co/1XyiQW0yWS">pic.twitter.com/1XyiQW0yWS</a></p>— Twitter Netherlands (@TwitterNL) <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterNL/status/674492589609984000">December 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Match experienced en masse Not only in the Philips Stadium and in front of the tube the match was experienced en masse, also on Twitter. @TwitterNL saw a peak at 11:29 a.m. with over 7,000 tweets per minute at that time. Check out the graph here!
The NOS also sympathized yesterday. Jeroen Grueter and Jeroen Elshoff covered the game live on behalf of NOS Langs de Lijn and literally went crazy after PSV's goals. You can hear the fragments here.