Luuk de Jong still believes in the national championship with PSV, he said on Saturday evening after the game against NEC (2-4). With a double hit and an assist, the striker had a large share in the victory of the Eindhoven team, who will take over second place in the Eredivisie from Ajax for at least one night. Furthermore, Hans Kraay jr. saw an irritated De Jong afterwards, but the attacker himself said that one need not look for anything after a discussion with Veerman.
“Our director did a good job on you on your victory lap, and I thought you were a little annoyed. Is that correct?”, Kraay Jr. opens the conversation with De Jong in front of the camera ESPN. “This doesn’t look like a happy player who has scored twice and provided an assist.” The images show that De Jong enters into a conversation with Veerman in an apparently temperamental manner afterwards, but De Jong downplays Hans’s suggestive question. “Ah, no. We’re just discussing a free kick here. It was just a bit of a discussion.”
De Jong also indicates that he still has every confidence in grabbing the national title, despite the fact that Feyenoord, which also has a game in hand, enjoys a five-point lead. “We can definitely still become champions. It is always possible, but we have made it very difficult for ourselves. There’s a big gap right now, but I’ve seen crazier things in my career. If there’s a gap, we’ll go for it.”
The attacker himself was accurate twice and looks back on the first half in particular with a satisfied feeling. “I think we did well throughout the first half, and we do what is asked of us. Be sharp and aggressively take the ball in midfield. There is also the 3-0 (from Joey Veerman, ed. In some matches that drops a bit and then it becomes such a conversion match, but that happened much less today”, concludes De Jong.