The Audience had Little Reason to complain after the spectacular Eredivisie Match NEC-PSV (3-5) on Saturday, but the players had all the more reason. Joey Veerman and Jerdy Schouten Needed a moment to recover after the energy-sapping match Against the Hyper-Attacking Home Team.
Veerman Scored One of the Eight Goals with a Brilliant Long-Range Shot. But he Didn’t Really Enjoy himself in Nijmegen. “I have to be honest: I understand that it’s fun on TV, but on the field it was no fun at all,” he admitted in a conversation with ESPN . “This has nothing to do with football. Shooting long balls and hoping they fall right.”
PSV had to use the long ball to take advantage of the spaces nec would give away in the back. “That’s not our game, but I think we did well today,” Veerman concluded. “We play their game. We don’t normal do that, but it worked out well.”
When His Goal was Mentioned, Veerman Couldn’t Help But Laugh. “Yeah, that one gets used in Pretty Well,” he Grinned.
“You Sometimes Sit on the Couch Watching TV. When some then shoots a ball into the top corner, you think: when will this ever happen to me? Well, today was that day.”
Schouten: ‘We can play better football’
PSV had to fight for the points, Captain Schouten Concluded Imediately After the Match in Front of the ESPN Microphone. “It’s one-on-one everywhere, Every Long Ball is a fight. I’m slippery we come out as the winner.”
“Was it fun? I prefer games where we don’t have to run back so much. We have that more often. But if that’s how it has to be, then’s how it has been to be.”
PSV had adjusted its tactics slightly, with the intentions of nec in mind. Schouten was Nominally Central in the Back, But Regularly Moved Forward. As a result, The Eindhoven Team Couldn’t Do What they normally do.
“From a Footballing Point of View, we can do better than this,” Schouten Continued. “But that’s also the tactic we used today. We Didn’t Need to Have 70 percent Possession, Passing Back and Forth to Find the Moments. This was just an up-and-down match.”