PSV can count on a sold-out house on Tuesday evening in the home match against Koninklijke HFC in the second round of the KNVB Cup. This also applies to Ajax next Thursday against Telstar.
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PSV has to put some things right on Tuesday evening. The Eindhoven team recently made a big impression by putting aside both FC Utrecht and FC Twente with ease, but have not been able to follow up their big victories in the Eredivisie. They suffered a painful defeat in the Champions League when they visited Stade Brest and came A few days later we visited SC Heerenveen and had another bad dayresulting in a 1-0 defeat. It was the first time since the appointment of Peter Bosz that PSV lost twice in a row.
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Not a pleasant run-up to next Sunday’s Feyenoord cracker. But before PSV can focus on the match against the Rotterdam team, the cup match against the amateurs of Koninklijke HFC is first scheduled in its own Philips Stadium. That should of course not cause any problems for PSV – at least on paper. In any case, Bosz left no misunderstanding about it on Monday. The head coach promised to ‘simply’ send a strong eleven onto the field on Tuesday evening. It remains to be seen which players will make an appearance, but in any case they will play in a sold-out Philips Stadium.
Not long before the kick-off in Eindhoven, PSV announces that the stadium is sold out for the meeting with the amateur club from Haarlem. Royal HFC is having a difficult season in the second division. It got 24 points from the first seventeen games and occupied ninth place. The dress rehearsal for the match against PSV resulted in a nice 1-2 victory at HHC Hardenberg. In the previous cup round, Royal HFC performed a stunt by knocking FC Emmen out of the tournament with a 1-0 defeat.
Ajax in full Johan Cruijff ArenA against Telstar
While PSV will play in the KNVB Cup on Tuesday evening, it will be Ajax’s turn on Thursday evening. The team from Amsterdam recovered somewhat from the defeats against AZ and Lazio last Sunday against Almere City and will do everything they can to qualify for the third round of the KNVB Cup this season. A year ago things went wrong against the amateurs of Hercules. While then coach John van ‘t Schip – who was not present during the cup match in Utrecht due to family circumstances – opted for a starting eleven consisting of mostly reserve players, Telstar, the opponent on Thursday, seems to be able to make his mark. Francesco Farioli rested a number of important players against Almere City.
The Amsterdam supporters will want to be treated to a beautiful evening in the last home game of this year with many goals and a ticket for the next round of the cup tournament. In any case, the meeting with Telstar, the current number eleven of the Kitchen Champion Division, has aroused quite a bit of interest. In addition to PSV, Ajax also reports a sold-out house. A packed Johan Cruijff ArenA on Thursday evening.
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