Duel between teams from the big three of Dutch football is always a derby, but this season we have a completely different situation than last season. The current champion Feyenoord has failed to repeat the situation from the last championship, and they completely failed and were just fourth. PSV is the leader on the table and has 20 points more than their host and it is quite possible that this will be a duel of the former and new champion. Feyenoord has recently in the quarterfinals of the Cup defeated PSV and eliminated them, while it was 1-0 for PSV in the first part of the championship.
The current champion has already said goodbye to the trophy because they played very poorly, so the backlog is quite big, but they before saying goodbye to the title, they also said goodbye to the Champions League, more precisely Europe, since they were very bad at the group stage. As a possible rescue of the season they can still win a trophy in the Cup, because they have reached the semi-finals after they have eliminated the PSV. They are fighting for the European scene, in case they do not win the Cup and it is clear that they cannot reach the Champions League.
They were defeated in the previous three matches, first by Ajax in a derby, and then Venla and Vitesse. They are in pretty good form at home, and it is encouraging before this derby. Thanks to a goal by their winter reinforcement van Perise, they have managed to defeat Heracles in the last round with 1-0. Because of the cards and injuries, coach Bronckhorst is forced to change the starting line all the time, but he might not make any changes now.
Probable lineups Feyenoord Rotterdam: Br.Jones – Nieuwkoop, van Beek, van der Heiden, Diks – El Ahmadi, Vilhena – Berguis, van Persie, Boetius – N.Jorgensen
PSV has said goodbye to Europe in the qualifiers, and from Cup after their recent defeat by Feyenoord, so they only have the championship, however, they are excellent in this competition and they are holding the first place, although they had a bigger advantage than it is now the case now. They had a series of seven wins after two matches when they lost in Amsterdam and then they played a draw with Groningen. The big advantage has melted a little bit then, but they made another blunder in the last round with Heerenveen.
It was the first match of this season in which they did not win, although they had a 2-0 lead at half-time. They were left with one player less on the field in the finish of the first part, when Lozan was excluded, and that has cost them dearly in the second part when they received two goals. Two rounds ago, they defeated Sarta as guests after turnover. The same composition played in the two duels in which they did not show much, while they cannot count on Lozan now and he could be replaced by Pereiro. Van Ginkel and Romero are still out of action due to injuries.
Probable lineups PSV Eindhoven: Zoet – Arias, Schwaab, Isimat-Mirin, Brenet – Hendrix, Mauro Junior, Ramselaar – Bergwijn, Pereiro, L.de Jong
Feyenoord has nothing to lose in this match because they have already said goodbye to the title and will now play relieved for their fans, while PSV wants to celebrate this time, so we expect an open match with a lot of goals.
Pick: over 2.5 goals 1.81
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