PSV convincingly qualified for the third preliminary round of the Champions League at the expense of Galatasaray on Wednesday evening. After last week’s resounding 5-1 win in Eindhoven, coach Roger Schmidt’s team won the return in Istanbul on Wednesday 1-2. In the third preliminary round, PSV will face the Danish FC Midtjylland. The Telegraph and the General Newspaper will reflect on the success of PSV in Europe on Thursday.
The Telegraph emphasizes that Schmidt is increasingly succeeding in turning PSV to his will. Players who could possibly leave had only a modest role in ‘the new PSV’ and with André Ramalho, Ibrahim Sangaré, Eran Zahavi, Mario Götze, Philipp Mwene and Philipp Max, there were six players at the kick-off in Istanbul who, on the explicit advice of the Germans have been taken. “He has so much influence on purchasing policy that you rush over the Philips Schmidt Verein can speak.”
After all, bench seat Yvon Mvogo also comes out of his tube and Schmidt has once again put forward a player internally with Bergim Berisha from Red Bull Salzburg who is very familiar with his specific approach. “PSV is treading on thin ice with this,” the newspaper writes. “As long as it results in qualification for the Champions League group stage and tangible trophies, it’s no problem at all. If there is no success, the large number of players with a Schmidt signature will return to the trainer like a boomerang.”
It General Newspaper writes that PSV has of course won the diptych with Galatasaray on the field, but also on the transfer market. “Far before the end of the previous competition, director of football affairs John de Jong started working with his confidants to have reinforcements in time.” The newspaper calls Drommel, Ramalho, Van Ginkel and Mwene ‘the fruits of that labour’. “Ramalho and Van Ginkel in particular made an excellent impression, while the performance of Drommel and Mwene was also very good. Mwene still has to wait and see whether he will definitely win the competition with Jordan Teze, but for the time being, there is little shrinking.”
“The current situation is a bit sour for Teze, because last season he held his own in a lesser PSV. The newcomers were part of the first modest success of this season, which gives sporty and financial support.” PSV is now at least assured of the group stage of the Europa League and will no longer fall through a hatch towards the Conference League this summer. “PSV is not satisfied with a place in the second international division of UEFA: Champions League football is the big goal in this season and everything has to be put aside for that.”