Joey Veerman looks back with mixed feelings on the first leg against Rangers in the play-offs of the Champions League. He saw his team take the lead via Ibrahim Sangaré, after which Antonio Colak equalized not much later. In the second half, the Scots made it 2-1 due to a huge mistake by Walter Benítez, but just under fifteen minutes before time, Armando Obispo headed the 2-2 final score on the board. According to Veerman, there would have been more for the people of Eindhoven, he told the camera of RTL 7.
“If you look at the opportunities we’ve been given, I think maybe we should have won here,” Veerman begins his interview. “This does hurt. We are clumsy 2-1 behind, after which Obispo makes 2-2 with a nice header. We take a good result with us, but you still get the feeling that we could have decided earlier.”
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PSV had a hard time with the team of Giovanni van Bronckhorst, especially in the first half. In the second company, the team from Eindhoven had the match better under control. Veerman: “In the first half we also tried to play football, but let’s just say that it didn’t go great then. In the second half, the spaces between the front and back lines were a bit smaller, allowing André Ramalho to move faster on the right in that half. half-space. I think we had them under pressure at the time and they didn’t know what to do anymore. I think we should build on that.”
Partly because of this, the 23-year-old midfielder looks forward with confidence to the return, which is scheduled for next Wednesday at 9 p.m. in the Philips Stadium. “The team now has the feeling that we are going to get them. We saw the atmosphere in the stadium at home against Monaco. Today the atmosphere was also very nice. It just hurts your ears a little when they all start yelling. So it’s nice to be involved. But next week our fans will make at least the same amount of noise,” he concludes.
Wesley Sneijder’s reaction
Wesley Sneijder finds it remarkable that Veerman draws so much confidence from the match in Glasgow. “He is quite convinced of ‘we are going to get them next week’, but I don’t know what that is based on,” said the former midfielder. “A draw is a fair result. I like it, the bluff: let them come. Only what it is based on … But it is also in the emotion, you just came out of a match. Players experience it very different on the field.”