He was OK, but went long stretches in the first half without getting the ball. Hopefully this was enough of a performance to stick with the first team. Where's @feyenoordsoccerfan when you need him?
I thought he looked pretty good. Very aggressive playstyle assuming that all touch video had all of his touches. Regardless he drove forward quite often and impacted the game positively consistently.
That wasn't an all touch. He had one pass intercepted that almost lead to a counter goal, although I think some of the blame for that one might go to his teammate for not reading his pass. He also had a couple instances where he tried to dummy the ball and his teammates were not not he same page which led to a turnover. Overall however, with the admission that I'm not completely non-partisan, I felt he looked like one of the more polished players on the field...very solid in possession. He moves off the ball so well and I think that there were times that he was ignored by his teammates a bit and so he was quiet for stretches in the first half. I thought he seemed a bit more assertive in the second half relative to the first. My understanding is that the team was heavily rotated with a bunch of non-starters today. My sense is that he is the kind of player that might perform better with better players around him. Bottom line is that I thought he was really solid, but like everyone else for PSV, not particularly effective at unlocking the oppositions bunker.
he led the one counter where he showed that familiar dribbling at pace but played it safe rather than trying the true unlocking pass. like to think that changes with more comfort in the first team
Trademark of a Porter team is to get into a dangerous spot and pass your way out of it. Several times they should have pushed they step on the ball and go backwards.
Watching the match, my friend. PSV was terrible, due to the coach who decided to rest 8 of the normal first team line up for the EL match this week. So basically he fielded a team that never played together and that showed. It was like every 3d pass was misplaced/misunderstood by the player passed to. Richie was okay, though he learned that a ball lost at the edge of the opponent box can be in seconds on the other side of the pitch on this level. It was rather condescendingly of the coach to think he could do that against Sparta. So to prevent points loss in the title race he had to throw in players he wanted to rest.
This is consistent with my viewing. PSV looked disjointed. Richie was decent but won’t win a starting place with the performance.
For this year it's getting learning minutes and given the insane schedule the clubs have this season I guess it will be alot of them.
Matchday 5: PSV @ Granada today at 3:00 PM eastern. After 4 of 6 matches, we have: 10 Granada 6 PSV 5 PAOK 1 AC Omonia Matchday 6 is next Thursday, PSV hosting Omonia - a likely win, but with ... M1 PSV 1-2 Granada M2 Omonia 1-2 PSV M3 PAOK 4-1 PSV M4 PSV 3-2 PAOK ... only a win today will keep realistic chances of advancement alive, assuming PAOK beats Omonia today as expected. Wiki says these are the tiebreakers: Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Wins in all group matches; Away wins in all group matches; Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); UEFA club coefficient.
for a second looked like ledezma was warming up, but madueke still staying on. maybe one to watch at the half