Santiago Arias briefly returned to the Philips Stadium on Wednesday night. The Colombian back has not yet had the opportunity to say goodbye to PSV's supporters this season, but his team Atlético Madrid has now given him the space to travel to Eindhoven. So he was a guest on Wednesday night.
lap of honor
Arias will walk a lap of honor around the match. The Colombian international swapped the club for Atlético Madrid last season, after joining PSV in 2013. At the time, PSV acquired the winger from Sporting Clube de Portugal. Arias steadily developed, sometimes by trial and error, into one of the best backs in the Eredivisie. Arias became a three-time champion with PSV and won the Johan Cruijff Schaal twice. In total, the 45-time Colombia international played 172 games for PSV, in which he scored ten goals.