Frank Wormuth tried at one point during the match between PSV and Heracles Almelo (3-1) on Sunday with a mysterious gesture to change the formation of his team. The trainer of the Almeloërs crossed his arms and hit his left elbow with his right hand. Captain Mats Knoester reveals afterwards for the camera of ESPN that Wormuth meant that his team had to play in a 4-4-2 formation.
“You see? We thought something completely different. Wormuth always has those moments that we don’t know,” responds Hélène Hendriks after Knoester’s answer. “I think it’s special, normally you indicate in a different way that you are going to play 4-4-2”, analyst Marciano Vink continues. “Do you immediately lay your cards on that? Well, come on. I think they played the entire match in a 4-4-2 formation, only De La Torre dropped out from time to time. So then it’s 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1, a bit complicated. But not that much changed in the game.”
“It was certainly a well-deserved victory, well deserved”, Vink analyzes PSV’s 3-1 victory. “But I thought Heracles was better in the second half, at least ahead. It was no longer only based on Bakis standing alone in the front with two or three men. With the introduction of Armenteros you had a little more power in the front and with that they could even hurt PSV for a while. Heracles was slightly better in the second half, but PSV could have won this match 7-1 or 8-1.”
Knoester speaks afterwards of a ‘feel without a chance’. “In the end we will still be 2-1. We hold on to 1-0 until the break, so we still had faith in it. If you look at the game: putting pressure didn’t work, keeping the ball didn’t work,” says the Heracles defender. “PSV has qualities, but I thought the pressure on us was very poor, we were bad in the duels and we lost everything. Well, that will be difficult.”