Dominator from start to finish of the season in the Dutch league, winner of 28 of his 32 games playedwith a only defeat and three ties, the PSV Eindhoven culminated this Sunday its twenty-fifth title in this competition, with a comeback over the Sparta Rotterdam (4-2) which makes it already unattainable.
The team championship by the Mexican Hirving Lozano, the Argentine Walter Benítez or the Brazilians Mauro Júnior and Andre Ramalho it was a matter of time. Nobody doubted him. His nine points with nine left to play since last day crowned him as a 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 start.
Perhaps because of the pressure, PSV felt nervous. The best example was goalkeeper Walter Benítez, a sure thing all season, unrecognizable this Saturday in the first moments, like his team in general, who scored 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 made it 1-1, when he hit Schouten 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 for Sevilla and Barcelona. For his teammate it was his twelfth goal, also significant in the champion led by Peter Bosz.
Returning the game to the most predictable place, even the Sparta reopened the debate on the result before the half hour markwhen Saito threw a thread that he tried to clear Boscagli with his head and ended up in the square of his goal. He 2-2. It was still valid for PSV to seal the final victorybut it was a blur 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. Not even for him PSV, not even for Spartawho lost due to injury to Negli before the time of the duel, until the strategy restored the leader and champion to the advantage, 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 Veerman to definitively convey that the title was invariably PSV Eindhoven, champion six years later, unstoppable throughout the season, with yet another goal before the title party: the 4-2 of Jordan Teze in a quick attack.
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