Other UEFA news: PSV out!
Well, it seems Zenit St Petersburg reached the semis. No surprises there.
Glasgow Rangers won 0-2 away in Lisbon, counter-attacking Sporting to Kingdom Come.
So, it’s Getafe…oops… Bayern Munich vs Zenit and Glasgow Rangers vs Fiorentina.
Fiorentina??? Yes, the ol’ PSV Eindhoven boys didn’t make it against the Italians.
Weakened by the suspension of Farfan and the injury of Afellay, PSV was pushed back by Fiorentina, who started the game with clear intentions. Attack and score. It took Fiorentina till the 37th minute, but the quality of the goal was superb: a long distance strike by Mutu.
In the second half, Fiorentina kept pushing forward. PSV did get opportunities (Koevermans for instance) but the sharpness, the dedication was just not there. Also, PSV impressive passing game from last week was non existent. In the second half Lazovic replaced Bakkal but it was Mutu who drew attention again: he scored from a rebound 0-2 and thus PSV needed to score thrice.
Lazovic had a huge opportunity to do so, but he failed from 6 yards. Danny Koevermans had a shooting chance on the 6 yard line as well but totally missed the ball. And with ten minutes to go, Timmy Simons missed a penalty kick. If you play that sloppy and your opponent is sharp as a razor you won’t win a UEFA CUp quarterfinals match.
And it’s weird, last round PSV impressed away at Spurs, only to get in trouble at home. It took penalties then to move through. Now, again an impressive PSV away in Florence and at home PSV couldn’t even get close to their level of last week.
Now PSV can focus on the Dutch title. Last year, Liverpool knocked PSV out of the CL and the weeks later PSV almost lost the championship.
Will history repeat itself?
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I’m very sad with this result. Afellay and Farfan were very missed.
PSV has a very good team but I think they don’t have a very good bench, I hope next year they buy 2 or 3 players to make the team stronger. I’m from Mexico and we’ve some very good players and not that expensive, look at Salcido.
Ajax and PSV are buying some players who don’t deserve to be in those clubs, like Lazovic and there are Dutch players who could already be used like Sarpong of Ajax, Roy Beerens is a great player, Anita, etc…




@MR; true … Psv couldnt hold the ball in position up front … think they played awful and deserved not to go trough
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the problem is that dutch clubs are getting worse and worse. fiorentina is not a top team,4th in italy and they easily eliminate the dutch champion… too bad.
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The upcoming Dutch silly season will be the most important one in ages..




Why Simon?
The problem to me is that we don’t have coaches/clubs with flair left. Playing pressure against Italian clubs works always (same with English clubs). When Vergoossen saw that Dszudszak and Bakkal couldn’t put pressure on the flanks and get crosses in, he should have reacted. Let Bakkal play in midfield (with the game in front of him) or take him out for Lazovic. He should have reacted: two strikers (Lazo and Koev) and four midfielders. Playing tight together, keeping ball possession like they played in Florence and break the Italians down. This was almost a disgrace! Lazo had a big chance, Koev had a biggie and then that penalty kick! They allowed the Italians to eat the parmesan off their bread (Dutch expression)
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a good article - actually i’m agree with the writer:
http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=654285
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Well, because PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord and AZ is in another building phase that began last summer. PSV put together a decent team last summer despite some important losses and now with Huub Stevens and maybe a new striker they might be able to put something really good together. Ajax too is building, new management and van Basten isnt afraid to clean up a bit. Feyenoord probably wants to keep on from last summers signing madness with adding that extra depth into the squad that they have lacked all year. And AZ had to rebuild last summer and is going try and find a superstar to get the goals in.
What we have now is four on the paper good teams that was largely rebuilt last summer (PSV lost their best defender, best midfielder and best striker, AZ their best striker, Ajax their two top notch midfielders - Sneijder sold and Davids injured - and Feyenoord released half its squad but only bought replacements for half of them.
So its kind of a make it or break it thing now I think. If these teams fail to polish their squads, I think the silly season of 09/10 will be one big cleaning with players leaving because the club dont do well, the club selling players cause they dont well… this summer I think we will see fewer deals than last summer, both in and out, but hopefully some bigger ones going in while not too many leaving.




Well, that semi is done. What about Holland v. Romania at EURO ‘08? Who’ll stop Mutu to strike again and create those many occasions he is able of?
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@daniel; our game plan is; right before the start of the game will sent him a little white envelope containing some white powder….Mutu will than stay on the toilet for a few hours and when hes finished we will have won the game 3-0!! haha
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