PSV continued its undefeated series in the Eredivisie on Saturday. The team of trainer Roger Schmidt quickly took the lead through a beautiful blast from Cody Gakpo, but then quickly looked surprisingly behind. Two corner kicks and a goal from Eran Zahavi and Bruma finally brought PSV into a safe haven: 5-2. PSV is at the top with nine points after three matches, while Groningen is in the middle with four points.
Gakpo opened the score in the seventh minute by entering the penalty area from the left wing and hitting the far corner with a devastating shot: 1-0. FC Groningen had little to crumble in the milk, but came back on the same level after fifteen minutes. A cross from the left by Gabriel Gudmundsson ended up with a clumsy touch from PSV midfielder Ibrahim Sangaré to Cyril Ngonge, who was able to finish it from very close: 1-1.
Three minutes later, FC Groningen brutally took the lead, when PSV goalkeeper Joël Drommel had a bad answer to a shot by Gudmundsson. The ball therefore ended up at Ngonge, who finished in an almost empty goal: 1-2. PSV opened the hunt for the equalizer and found it. André Ramalho saw his header from a corner kick through the body of Mo El Hankouri to be promoted to an own goal: 2-2.
PSV took the lead deep in injury time via another corner kick. This time Ramalho headed the ball in powerfully without the intervention of an opponent: 3-2. After the break, Peter Leeuwenburgh was unable to save on a hard bang from Gakpo, but the FC Groningen goalkeeper had no answer to the bet of the free Zahavi: 4-2. The PSV striker was launched by a heel from Gakpo and was lucky that Yorbe Vertessen did not touch the ball when passing through, so that he was not offside and the goal stopped.
PSV thus gained some air and could have decided the match when Zahavi was relaunched, but this time the attacker aimed straight at Leeuwenburgh. Groningen tried to push on, but except for a hard free kick by Tomás Suslov did not become very dangerous. Substitute Bruma thought he could score on behalf of PSV after a cross by Vertessen, but was called back by the VAR for narrow offside. Bruma still got his goal in injury time, by curling the ball beautifully into the intersection from outside the penalty area: 5-2.