Dominator from start to finish of the season in the Dutch league, winner of 28 of their 32 games played, with only one defeat and three draws, PSV Eindhoven This Sunday he finished his twenty-fifth title in this competition, with a comeback over Sparta Rotterdam (4-2) that makes him now unattainable.
The championship of the team of the Mexican Hirving Lozano, the Argentine Walter Benítez or the Brazilians Mauro Júnior and Andre Ramalho was a matter of time. Nobody doubted him. His nine points with nine left to play since last day crowned him as virtual winner, in the absence of the match that awaited him this Sunday at the Philips stadium, in front of his fans, with unpredictable agitation on the pitch, especially at the beginning.
Perhaps because of the size of the reward, PSV felt nervous. The best example was the goalkeeper Walter Benítezinsurance all season, unrecognizable this Sunday in the first momentsas a whole in general, that made it 0-1 in the 8th minute with a right hand from Metinho. There were more occasions, amidst the murmur of the incredulous public.
Even more so in the case that his team seemed to have nothing to do with the rest of the campaign, until Luuk de Jong headed the first shot in the 18th minute. The subsequent corner kick was the 1-1, when it hit Schouten’s chest and Bakari failed to clear it. In fact, the Eredivisie awarded it to the defender at his own goal. A relief. The 1-1.
Eight minutes later, PSV scored 2-1. The play was phenomenal by Luuk de Jong, who gave the goal to Bakayoko. His fifteenth assist of this league campaign. He has also scored 27 goals, the attacker who played in Seville and Barcelona. For his teammate it was his twelfth goal, also transcendent in the champion led by Peter Bosz.
Returning the game to the most predictable place, even Sparta reopened the debate on the result before the half hour mark, when Saito launched a goal that Boscagli tried to clear. with the head and that ended up in the square of his arch. The 2-2. It was still valid for PSV to seal the final victory, but it was a stain on such a special morning.
The game slowed down after the restart. More balanced, more contained, less fiery in attack, the meeting passed without relevant concerns for either of them. Neither for PSV, nor for Sparta, which lost Neghli due to injury before the meeting time, until The strategy put the leader and champion back in the lead, already in the 67th minute (3-2).
Boscagli made amends for his own goal. His shot was powerful in the other area, in a cross from Veerman to definitively convey that the title was invariably his. PSV Eindhoven, champion six years laterunstoppable throughout the season, with still another goal before the title party: Jordan Teze’s 4-2 in a quick attack.
