As far as Johan Derksen and René van der Gijp are concerned, Ibrahim Sangaré fell out of the picture at PSV in the play-off match for the Champions League against Benfica (2-1 loss). The analysts of Veronica Inside are very positive about the performance of the Eindhoven players, except for the Ivorian midfielder, who in their opinion lost against the ratio.
“The only dissonance in a fantastic team,” says Derksen about Sangaré. “He takes it and gives it back. His return is nil.” Derksen was otherwise pleased with PSV. “They lost 2-1, but that was very undeserved. There is really a team now. All positive are very nice occupied. They have two good wings. That boy from Israel (Eran Zahavi, ed.) in the striker is active and busy. I thought Cody Gakpo was the absolute best.”
Van der Gijp saw Sangaré disappointing in possession. “He only gets into trouble if he starts running with the ball,” said Van der Gijp. “If he does that, he will think of very difficult things that he should not do. If I were a trainer, I would just let that Sangaré hit twice in training for a month. That’s all. Then you know. sure he won’t run. Take, drop. Take, drop. And intercept balls.”
PSV received criticism from Wesley Sneijder and Jan Boskamp, the analysts of RTL7, during the half-time of the match. “They are still guided by the standings,” says Van der Gijp. “The result doesn’t matter. You’re watching a game and you see those people score two huge shitty goals. The first one shoots that guy into the ground and then he hits him wrong, a huge shitty goal. And the second one gets a hard header and falls for that boy. But even in the first half, PSV were by far the superior party and in the second half they really put their backs against the wall. That doesn’t happen very often, that you sit in the dressing room and that you say to each other, ‘We are down 2-0, but we are much better.’ I thought PSV played really well.”
Noni Madueke, who particularly stood out at PSV in the first half, is put in the spotlight by Van der Gijp. “That Madueke just passed that back fifteen to twenty times in the first half. It was not always a good continuation, sometimes that back came back, but so much threat from that boy.”