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PSV leads, AZ defeated

September 24th, 2007 | By: Jan | 10 Comments »

Feyenoord landed with a big thump back on planet Earth. The leader of the Dutch Eredivisie was played off the pitch by a superb PSV Eindhoven. The brain behind Feyenoord’s big defeat (4-0) was Kenneth Perez, the former Ajax and AZ player who was also instrumental in PSV win in the CL last week.
With two goals in the first half, Perez led the Dutch champs with leadership, brilliant passing and his astonishing vision. Over the whole match, PSV constantly pressed Feyenoord on the back foot. Still, the first goal didn’t come till the 35st minute with the other man of the match, Ozzie Jason Culina, crossing the ball in for Perez to finish 1-0. Culina also served the ball up to Mendez who scored the 2-0 minutes later and Danish Dynamite Perez struck a long distance strike home just before half time. Late in the second half, Danny Koevermans scored the 4-0 after a brilliant Kromkamp action. PSV gave Feyenoord a masterclass in top football, in terms of focus, discipline and aggressiveness. Feyenoord now will have to show how strong they really are.

AZ were the losers against Ajax. Maarten Stekelenburg, Suarez and Klaas Jan Huntelaar were the heroes for Amsterdam, Martens and Hamdaoui the losers for AZ. Stekelenburg against stopped a penalty-kick, what proved to be the turning point in the game, after penalty specialist Martens decided to let Hamdaoui take the spot kick. The Morrocan saw his penalty stopped by Oranje’s second goalie. AZ was 2-1 behind when that all took place. Waterman helped Huntelaar with his free kick, which resulted in the 1-0. Huntelaar showed his class when he set Suarez up for his first and Ajax’ second: 2-0.

De Zeeuw got AZ back in the match, but when half the AZ defense slept while Stekelenburg reached Suarez with a long ball, it only took a Litmanen-like lob to get the 3-1 on the board. In the dying minutes Dembele scored the 3-2 but the match was played by then.

Ajax leads the standings, PSV is second and Feyenoord third. FC Twente is number four. AZ currently owns the 9th place…

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By stephen | September 24th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

Perez was brilliant for PSV. Not sure why Morten Olsen doesn’t select him for the Danish national team. -Ooooops wrong blog

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By Lerkot | September 24th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

I think Perez said no to play in the national team last year or so.

By Kyle | September 24th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Okay I know this isn’t about the Dutch league.

But I have to ask the question, did anyone else notice Marco Van Basten sitting in the Chelsea box on Sunday (Man U, Chelsea game)…

Is he going to jump the dutch ship and coach Chelsea, just wondering if any other Dutch fans or papers may have noticed it at all.

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By stephen | September 24th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

I heard he was there just to watch the game…if there is more to this, I don’t know…but IF there is, it would probably be welcome news to many of us here.

This would coincide perfectly with Jol about to be sacked by Spurs….maybe

btw - this isn’t a Dutch league blog, but a Dutch national team blog, which invariably leads to some discussion about the Dutch league regarding players etc. welcome!

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By Jan | September 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

I heard the Marco - Chelsea news too. I can’r imagine Chelsea wanting Marco. Why would they?? Because Marco is doing so enormously well with Oranje?? Because Chelsea can’t afford a better coach :-)?

The official line is, that Marco was there to meet with van der Sar.

But, if Chelsea would snap him up, the KNVB will be laughing their asses off….

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By Kyle | September 24th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

Thanks Stephen and Jan,

I was just wondering if anyone else had found that weird… yes I would be more than happy if the man left the national team… it was just more than humouress to sit there and watch him in the Chelsea box… and Yes I know van der sar was there, but meeting him and then sitting in the Chelsea box at Old Trafford no less, makes very little sense in my mind.

Leave Marco leave, it will be great news to get the 4-4-2 formation in proper order for Ruud’s continual emergence

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By Mario | September 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

Kyle:

It is not not just about a 4-4-2 formation.
Van Basten doesn´t call Huntelaar, Kromkamp, he is not friend of van Bommel, he benches Seedorf, plays van Persie on the right, selects Landzaat, Jaliensa and Venegoor…I mean, can he make something more stupid? Oh well, actually yes!. He benched our best forward in the last years in a World Cup on then we got kicked out of the tournament, he is an asshole as a coach.
Anyway, as I read that Grant, the new Chelsea boos doesn´t have his papers for a UEFA coach then perhaps Chelsea want to hire a cheaper coach like van Basten and honestly and I would love that to happen.
van Basten to Chelsea…that sounds pretty good to me, not because I like Chelsea but because I want normality at Oranje noooow.

By Lerkot | September 25th, 2007 at 12:19 am

So Mario what you want is a manager that doesnt make decisions after what he believe in, you want a manager hat doesnt play with all the best players in all the games. Well… im sorry to tell you.. thats not a manager.. thats a football fan.. like you.

But sure, it would be nice to see Oranje play like this:

Goalkeeper: van der Sar
Left defender: Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Holding midfielder: Demy de Zeeuw
Defensive midfielder: Edgar Davids
Attacking midfielder: Clarence Seedorf
Attacking midfielder: Wesley Sneijder
Attacking midfielder: Rafael van der Vaart
Left winger: Arjen Robben
Central striker: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Central striker: Ruud van Nistelrooy
Central striker: Robin van Persie

That would be the only way to use all our stars.

By ali31416 | September 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

@Lerkot, funny, I like your post!

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By Jan | September 25th, 2007 at 6:54 pm

Lerkot, Mario….it is a funny comment but also the truth. It’s is not easy for Marco to 1) have to play attacking football and 2) to have form a team out of a group with 3 or 4 great central strikers but no right wingers. With 5 great attacking midfielder but no really good central defenders…..

That is reality my friends…

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