PSV coach Peter Bosz is Looking Forward to the Reunion with his old club Bayer Leverkusen in The Champions League. The coach regrets that in addition to an experienced striker, he also has to miss sergiño dest.
Striker Ricardo Pepi Appears Not Fit Enough to Play in Leverkusen on Wednesday, after Alassane Pléa and Myron Boadu had Previously Dropped out with Injuries. Ruben van Bommel Tore His Cruciate Ligament Against Ajax and Will Miss the Entire Season.
Due to the Many Absences, Bosz Has Taken Robin van Duiven from Young PSV to Germany. The coach recent state a debut in the First Team Came Too Early for the Nineteen-Year-Old Striker.
“It is of Course Exciting for Him,” Bosz Said on Tuesday at a Press Conference in the Bayarena. “Robin is now there for the first time in an official match and also in the Champions League. That does something to such a boy.”
Bosz Did Not Want to reveal Whether van Duiven Will Start Against Leverkusen. “We will come up with a solution. It is also a challenge to find an alternative,” Said the Coach, who also had to leave dest at home. “The Risk was too great to take sergiño with us now and give him minutes. That is not wise.”
Bosz Looks back positively on Leverkusen Period
For Both Bosz and goalkeeper Matej Kovár, The Match With Leverkusen is special. The 23-year-old Czech is interested by PSV from the German Top Club. Kovár was part of the strong team that won the Bundesliga Title in the 2023/2024 season. “It was an Amazing Season. Coach Xabi Alonso Created a Great Team Spirit,” Kovár Said at the Press Conference.
The Goalkeeper Now Returns to Leverkusen Faster than expected. “It’s a strange feeling, but it’s also nice that the champions League me back here within a few months. It helps that I have already played six matches in The Champions League with Leverkusen. The 1-0 Victory me”
Bosz also meets Old Acquaintances in Leverkusen. He finished fourth and fifth in the Bundesliga in 2019 and 2020. In March 2021, the 61-year-old coach was fired after winning only four of the last Seventeen Matches with Leverkusen. “I really enjoy my time here,” Said Bosz.
“I found nice people to work with. I look back positively on my period at leverkusen, except for the last day. It’s never nice when you get kicked out. But I still have a bite to eat with people from my former once a year’s or germany. And germany in the Netherlands 2024. I didnn’t want to miss that. “
Bosz Misses Tillman
Much Has Changed at Leverkusen Since then. After an Exodus of Top Players, The German Club Fired Coach Erik ten Hag After Just Two Months. His successor Kasper Hjulmand is Still Building a New Team. “Alonso has created something special here,” Said Bosz. “Ten Hag was Already Struggling with that and hjulmand will also notice that the club also likes to keep things from the past. It will be more difficult for him to work than me at psv.”
To Bosz ‘Regret, Malik Tillman is now facing PSV with Leverkusen. Last Season, The American International was One of the Tastemakers of the Eredivisie. Bosz: “I saw malik come in psv as a quiet, introverted boy. I saw him grow as a person. Then you saw his full potential as a football player. I miss him.”
Like Leverkusen, PSV is still in reconstruction. The Defense in particular looks vulnerable. Kovár Has Already Conceded Fifteen Goals in Nine Matches This Season. That is too many, bosz acknowled. Kovár, Laughing: “It would be nice if we could keep a clean sheet on Wednesday Evening.”