Luuk de Jong is critical of his teammates after PSV’s draw in the exciting Eredivisie top match against AZ. The captain is very disappointed with the sloppy play of the Eindhoven team, who had to come back from a deficit twice (2-2).
De Jong was named Man of the Match for his two goals, but that doesn’t buy him much. “No, that doesn’t help me. I’m terribly disappointed. We weren’t ourselves, especially in the first half. We lose the ball very easily, give impossible balls and then you just make it very difficult for yourself,” the striker analyzes shortly afterwards. in front of the camera ESPN.
According to De Jong, PSV was keen to start the new calendar year well. “To put a first half like that on the mat is incomprehensible. I find it difficult to really put my finger on it. Sometimes you have to check with yourself: what does this competition require? What is needed? Just simply pass the ball around. Let them walk. But then someone is tempted to give a ball that is not possible at all,” he is critical of his teammates. “Then you have to chase it again. We have to be smarter about things like that.”
De Jong acknowledges that PSV can get away with the late equalizer. “In the end, yes. In the second half, after that 1-1, you actually dominate. Then they come out one time, a cross, and you are 1-2 behind again. Also things like that, those small details… That is not always punished in the Eredivisie, but now it is. And at the highest level, in the Champions League, it is certainly punished.”
“While you had the feeling that AZ no longer had anything to contribute, you still had to get back to it. Then it became 2-2, but there was not enough time to win,” the veteran concluded.
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