PSV Eindhoven achieved a spectacular 8-0 victory over Heereveen and, although he could not celebrate his twenty-second Eredivisie title this Thursday due to Feyenoord’s victory, He was one step away from being crowned champion.
PSV celebrates victory over Heerenveen EPA/OLAF KRAAK
Peter Bosz’s team He got 9 points with 9 to play and is one point away from becoming champion again after four consecutive runners-up finishes. In any case, it is almost impossible for him to lose the title, because of the great goal difference in their favor (+86 against +54 for Feyenoord, a distance of 32 points that is practically impossible to recover)
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To achieve that status of ‘virtual champion’, the team where the Argentine Walter Benítez saves had to win and they did not fail. In just eleven minutes, with three almost consecutive goals, the duel ended before a large number of their fans who came to Heereveen to see their team’s victory. With Guus Til’s goal and Malik Tillman’s double, PSV left no room for surprise and had fun surrounded by a festive and celebratory atmosphere.
The crash began a quarter of an hour late due to traffic congestion. The clock stopped to wait for a large number of fans who did not want to miss a minute of the game. Those of Heerenveen, still with options to enter the dispute for a European place, would surely have preferred to eliminate that first quarter of an hour.
And until Till’s first goal, the statistics were overwhelming in favor of PSV Eindhoven. Heerenven, in the first seven minutes, barely made ten passes. The rest of the time, possession was for Bosz’s team, which little by little amassed the first goal.
Till marked it. He did not waste a pass filtered by Tillman to beat goalkeeper Mickey van der Hart with a good left foot, who a minute and a half later picked up the ball from the net again after an accurate header from Tillman after a great assist from the right wing by Jordan Teze.
And, without time to regret those actions, Heerenveen, in the eleventh minute, conceded the same again. Again Tillman, this time with a shot from the ground and practically without an angle, added another goal to the scoreboard that completely collapsed his rival.
Sinked by an impossible score, Heerenven hit rock bottom with the voracious insistence of PSV, who in the middle of a downpour insisted on causing a real storm of goals. That’s why, after half an hour, Till, with a free kick, scored the fourth; and on the edge of half-time, Joey Veerman, with a “pass” to the net from outside the area, celebrated the fifth.
The party continued in the second half with a great goal after the restart from Johan Bakayoko, who destroyed the goal corner defended by Van der Hart with a shot from outside the area. The Belgian player’s goal seemed to calm PSV’s anxiety, which, however, accelerated in the final stretch to achieve a historic result.
Luuk de Jong, the Eredivisie’s top scorer, was not without his prize and scored his 27th goal of the season in the 71st minute. And Patrick van Aanholt, in the 83rd minute, closed a rout that equaled a NAC Breda 0-Ajax 8 in 2017, one of the largest away results in the history of the Dutch League. Van Aanholt’s success preceded the launching of flares by the PSV fans, which forced the match to be stopped for a few more minutes.