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UEFA Action: Gomez hero in Eindhoven

March 12th, 2008 | By: Jan | 13 Comments »

Like he has been before… Gomez saved PSV and keeped them to the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup against the Spurs. With a 0-1 win in the pocket from last week’s match, PSV was confident for the second leg. Still, it was the Spurs who ruled in Eindhoven. The London club was the better and dominated, although it was Gomez who denied the Spurs that desperate goal. Ten minutes before stoppage time, Berbatov scored at long last and extra-time was needed. Again, Tottenham was the stronger club but Gomez ruled with great saves. In the penalty-series it was Otman Bakkal who scored the last penalty for PSV before the Spurs missed there opportunity to stay in the match. PSV is through.

Dick Advocaat’s Zenit St Petersburg mopped away the 3-1 loss last week against Olympique Marseille with a 2-0 home win. Bolo Zenden of Marseille was benched and Zenit’s former international Fernando Ricksen was in the stands. Zenit is writing history with Advocaat.

Rafael van der Vaart’s Hamburg SV did win the second leg against Bayern Leverkusen but they missed one more goal to progress to the next round. Stevens, Mathijsen, De Jong, Castelen and Der Kleine Engel are out!

Bayern Munich and Mark van Bommel are through too, after their enormous away win over Anderlecht last week. Anderlecht won in Munich with 1-2, though. Van Bommel played the whole match and missed a good chance right before the final whistle.

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Comments

By ferenc | March 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Jan: i think it was mercelis who scored the last penalty. and in the second half and in the extra time psv was better. in the first half they played really bad football. gomes was heroic.

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By dirk v.d berg | March 12th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

The new netherlands home kit comes out April 2nd, can’t wait. Too bad for Marseille, I thought they were playing pretty good, and the same goes for Hamburg.

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By Jan | March 12th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

Have you guys all watched the games?? Shit… I could only see Everton… I took the info from the VI site, Ferenc, so if I’m wrong, that’s because they were wrong :-). Quite someting for young Marcellis to take the penalty.

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By Miguel Rosado | March 13th, 2008 at 12:54 am

Well, PSV won against one of the most difficult teams in the tournament so it’s good news, although if they want to win the cup they’ll have to improve a lot. It was great to see Jenas miss that last penalty, he gave PSV a great gift haha.
What’s up with Aissati?. I remember reading a lot about him during Holland’s U-21 tournament and he still hasn’t showed much. Is he back from injury?.

By Jan | March 13th, 2008 at 1:23 am

Aissati is back but the powers that be at Eindhoven think it’s impossible to play Afellay, Bakkal and Aissati in one team. Shocking. These boys are sooo good. How’bout:

Gomez

the back four

Culina Simons

Bakkal Aissati Afellay

Lazovic

Now that’s a line up the coach should give a go!

But even Bakkal isn’t a regular anymore. Results results my friend.

It’s a shame. If Stevens has cojones he makes him important in the team. Otherwise he’ll leave and a club like Arsenal will be laughing again!

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By ferenc | March 13th, 2008 at 4:09 am

i was amazed by marcelis. not only because he scored the 7th penalty, but it was the first time i saw him,and he’s really talented which very good for oranje. kromkamp did a good job as well and he definitely sholuld be the right back in the national team. but salcido did simetimes very strange things…

Jan: actually in hungary televisions transmit quite often psv games since a hungarian guy (dzsudzsak) have been playing there. what would you do with farfan? without him i cannot imagine the starting eleven.

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By Jan | March 13th, 2008 at 4:42 am

Salcido is indeed an exotic character. Sometimes I see him do things and I think…what the hell is he thinking :-). That dzsudzsak fellow is actually a great player. Awesome. He came to PSV as a newbie and immediately made his mark. He won the hearts of the football fans in Holland within weeks. Great player. I’m not a Farfan fan :-). Nonfarfanfan in other words. I think he’ll leave PSV at the end of this season…

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By goose | March 13th, 2008 at 5:14 am

on yesterdays game:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/7285143.stm

Psv played pretty bad…they had lots of luck but great to see them in the quarters, also good for dutch football that we still have a team in the running in Europe

told you people about Marcellis…hes only 19 and plays really confident, great to have for the (near) future

Dzsudzsak (what a name!!, cant we give him a brasilian name like “koko’or ‘dada’?) is the revelation of this years Eredivisie…great player

@Jan; your midfield with Aisatti, Affelay (who played a crap game yeasterday!) and Bakkal is far too light…on the attack; great; on defense; no use…. btw; dont think Bakal is that good

well done Psv!!

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By simon | March 13th, 2008 at 6:10 am

I saw Marcellis the game when he did his debut, against Liverpool 06/07. He got a red card and then I realized that he was gonna become something. To get a red card in your first game shows that you’re brave and self-confident.

By oranje.cn | March 13th, 2008 at 10:42 am

I have watched Marcellis several games since last season’s champions league. He got a red card in the game vs Liverpool, but now he becomes really a good player with confidence and nice technic.

By Darth | March 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

I saw the second half. As some have already stated, PSV was lucky. They made quite a few defensive errors and flops. But to be fair, Tottenham’s goal was a product of a fluke cross.
Gomes could have as easily been the guy that sank PSV, after some good interventions, he made childish errors in a duet with Salcides.

@Miguel: Indeed Tottenham was one of the toughest teams in this Uefa season, and even if PSV eliminated them, they don’t have much chance of getting the trophy. Bayern is a much stronger opponent, perhaps the toughest of the last years in Uefa Cup.

By goose | March 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Bayern is by far the strongest team left in the Uefa-cup…. im hoping for a Psv-Bayern final!

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By dirk v.d berg | March 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

I was hoping for a Hamburg-Marseille final (I cheer for both of those teams in their respective leagues), but now its more likely going to be Bayern - Fiorentina, if Mutu gets back. Though Zenit seem to be in good form, and the same goes for Leverkusen. In my opinion those are the four teams to beat, and PSV would be happier getting the latter of the four.

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