‘A match we have to win’

NOS Football•yesterday, 1:17 PM

A day before the match against Girona, PSV coach Peter Bosz would much rather talk about that Champions League match than about last weekend, when the leader lost to Ajax (3-2).

“Everyone who has played football has lost at some point. Some of us, I think, very often. You go home with a bad feeling and wake up the next day with a bad feeling. But then you also know that the next match is coming. “

Switching from a lost top match to a European challenge is not difficult, according to the coach. “Not at all.”

“We’re used to it. When you play in Europe, there are two or three days in between. It’s like this almost every week, so as a player or as a trainer you have to learn to end it quickly. We discuss it afterward and then an agreement is made. underline and move on to the next.”

Bosz will also have to do without a handful of injured players in the next match: Joey Veerman, Jerdy Schouten, Sergiño Dest, Hirving Lozano and Adamo Nagalo are not yet fit.

Bosz has a positive image of opponent Girona. “A team that wants to dominate opponents. Also against Feyenoord, more ball possession, eleven corners and Feyenoord zero. They want to build from the back, play real football.”

“They did a great job last year in Spain. If you come second there, that is something very special. Then you have to have a lot of quality, otherwise you won’t last a season. This year they are having a bit more difficulty, also because the extra matches in the Champions League.”

In the new format this season, PSV is 28th after three matches, a place that will not be enough to reach the next round in January. It means little to Bosz, after Juventus (3-1 loss), Sporting CP and Paris Saint-Germain (both 1-1), PSV has only completed three of the eight matches in the competition phase.

“I don’t look that far ahead. What has to happen is that we win tomorrow. The rest is all new to me and too early to draw conclusions.”

“We have two points out of three for our tough games. Now come the games, the home games in particular, that we have to win. That was against Sporting, I think we deserved three points there. Now we have to see if we can do that.” can do tomorrow, against Girona.”