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sport">Although PSV has the first important preliminary round match in the Champions League in Monaco in two days, it was a duel in Amsterdam between two teams, who wanted to win. The kick-off of the season in a full Johan Cruijff ArenA was mainly a party of the home-playing national champion with only a small supporter delegation from Eindhoven, but PSV pulled out all the stops to disrupt the Amsterdam party.
sport">In addition to many goals, the season overture also had a lot of emotions with a large number of riots and some moving VAR moments. Ajax ended the game with ten men, because debuting substitute Calvin Bassey was shown the red card after intervention by the VAR. Referee Dennis Higler had initially given a yellow card for the charge on PSV substitute Ismael Saibari. Bassey was the first Ajax player since Evander Sno to be sent off on his debut.
Bergwijn started his official debut with a wonderful goal.
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sport">It was a true debutante ball for both teams. At PSV, three newcomers kicked off an official game for the first time: goalkeeper Walter Benitez, right back Ki-Jana Hoever and Guus Til, who would make it a memorable evening.
Two newcomers
sport">Two newcomers made their official match debut at Ajax. The new trainer Alfred Schreuder had made basic places for the new left back Owen Wijndal and for Steven Bergwijn. Bergwijn, who had exchanged Ajax’s youth academy for that of PSV at the age of thirteen, made his appearance in the main force of his first professional club after eleven years.
sport">Jay Gorter was under the bar at Ajax. For the Purmerender it was only the third match in the first of Ajax after his debut last season in the KNVB cup against Excelsior Maassluis and the last competition match of the past season against Vitesse. Gorter made a good impression on Schreuder in the preparation, but the Ajax coach has not yet made a final choice under the bar.
sport">It was a wonderful first half, in which Ajax was a lot stronger than PSV for a long time, but the Eindhoven team still went to rest with a 2-1 lead. After Bergwijn had brightened up his Ajax debut with a brilliant opening goal, in which the 31 million man with a quick felling movement gave both Ki-Jana Hoever and Johan Bakayoko the check and the ball curled beautifully into the goal, the home team was king for a long time. master.
Til was of gigantic value for PSV with three hits
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sport">In this phase PSV had to pull out all the stops not to fall further behind, but it soon became clear that the team of trainer Ruud van Nistelrooy has a powerful weapon with the strong leaders Guus Til and Luuk de Jong in combination with the crosses of assist king Cody. gakpo.
sport">In the 32nd minute Til was too strong for Wijndal in the air and the former Feyenoord player signed for the 1-1 on a pass from Gakpo. After Til had first missed a good head chance on a pass from Gakpo, it was hit again just before half-time. Gakpo spooned the ball again with a lot of feeling for the goal and Til popped up between Daley Blind and goalkeeper Gorter to head in the 1-2.
sport">With Til and De Jong, PSV has two powerful weapons in the air, but it should be noted that Ajax in its current composition is vulnerable in the air. Schreuder’s team has little height in the back and Lisandro Martinez – the best defensive header last season – was sorely missed in the duels.
Rood Alvarez?
sport">Ajax could not complain that it went into the dressing room with eleven men, because immediately after the 1-2 Edson Alvarez swung his elbow against Til’s head. The Mexican escaped red, because referee Dennis Higler, who had a difficult evening, stuck to yellow and VAR Jochem Kamphuis went along with it.
It was regularly heated in the Johan Cruijff Arena.
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sport">Immediately after the break there was another situation in which red threatened an Ajax player. Johan Bakayoko, who replaced the injured Noni Madueke, was knocked down by Wijndal. Higler drew a yellow card, even though it looked like putting down a broken player. When viewing the images at the initiative of the VAR, it turned out that hands had been made by Bakayoko prior to the moment, after which Higler withdrew the yellow card and Ajax gave a free kick. Immediately afterwards Antony made it 2-2 after a quick Ajax attack.
sport">Ajax started to take the lead, but a serious mistake by goalkeeper Gorter helped PSV back in the saddle. The youthful goalie couldn’t control the ball after a long shot by Armando Obispo, after which Gakpo tapped in the 2-3 from close range. Moments later it was even 2-4. After good preparatory work by Saibari, the ball came through De Jong to Til, who once again left goalkeeper Gorter without a chance with a cracked shot.
Hunting with one less man
sport">Ajax did not give in after the gruesome goal and quickly scored the connecting goal. After the new PSV goalkeeper Benitez had boxed the ball away instead of grasping it, substitute Mohammed Kudus shot the 3-4 against the net. With one man less because of Bassey’s red, Ajax kept chasing the equalizer in the final phase, but to the great relief of PSV, it did not happen, because half an hour of overtime would be a bad scenario in view of the important away match in the preliminary round of the match. Champions League coming up.
sport">After Joey Veerman had hit the bar, substitute Xavi Simons also graced his debut with a goal. The midfielder who was taken over from Paris Saint-Germain made it 5-3 for PSV in injury time.
sport">In view of the important confrontation with AS Monaco, it was a morale boost for Van Nistelrooy’s team, that the season started, just like last year, with a win of the Johan Cruijff Scale in the den of the lion. Despite a strong phase before halftime, it became clear to Ajax coach Schreuder that there is still something to tinker with at the new Ajax after the tumultuous transfer summer with 112 million euros in sales and the Dutch record amount of 85 million euros in purchases.
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