Ruud van Nistelrooij had an evening to quickly forget on Monday. The coach lost 0-2 on his own field with Jong PSV against Jong FC Utrecht and also saw a large number of players drop out. The people of Eindhoven are still in ninth place in the Kitchen Champion Division, but Van Nistelrooij is seriously concerned. The former the Dutch international calls the field at De Herdgang sports park ‘unworthy of professional football’.
Young PSV fell behind just before half-time, then lost Jenson Seelt through an injury and saw how the Domstedelingen closed the game in the final phase. “Unfortunately, Seelt and Richard Ledezma were injured, both of them are muscle injuries,” Van Nistelrooij said afterwards. ESPN† “Later Livano Comenencia also followed. It was a battlefield today and I thought that also had to do with the tuber garden. I can’t call it a field. Playing football is impossible on this, but if it also becomes a danger for players, we have to look very closely at that.”
Van Nistelrooij had a hard time keeping his frustrations under control. “It’s tough, it’s impossible, it’s actually unworthy of professional football,” he refers to the turf. “These are also serious muscle injuries. Fodé Fofana also had to come off at halftime. That is all even more painful than this defeat.” It was the second defeat in a row for Jong PSV, after losing to Jong Ajax last week with the same figures. Before that, Van Nistelrooij’s team had a strong run with five games without a loss.
“This was one of our lesser halves of this season, Utrecht was better,” concluded Van Nistelrooij on Monday evening. “In the second half we had good intentions. Then you unfortunately know that Johan Bakayoko has to leave after sixty minutes because of PSV 1.” PSV will play the first leg of the Conference League against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Philips Stadium next Thursday. Next week, the team of trainer Roger Schmidt will visit Israel for the return.
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