Goals from Tim Matavz, Dries Mertens and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stanislav-Manolev-c33925 ensured that the Eindhoven giants secure maximum points at the end of 90 minutes.
On match-day 19, PSV Eindhoven cruised to a hard fought 3-1 victory over Vitesse Arnhem at Philips Stadion on Friday, January 27.
The Arnhem outfit started the match brightly and grabbed the lead in the third minute through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcelo-c23554 cleared the ball
neatly before it crossed the goal-line, much to the relief of the Boeren head coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fred-c14136 Rutten.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Giorgi-Chanturia-c14929 then had a chance of breaking the deadlock moments later, but his effort flew wide of the target. As the match progressed, the hosts started to gain momentum.
In the 31st minute, the home side took the lead through Tim Matavz. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Zakaria-Labyad-c37796 went past two opponents before unleashing a long range strike that Vitesse goalkeeper failed to parry, and Matavz tapped home the rebound from five yards out.
With the hosts up 1-0, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vitesse-c40905 continued to dominate proceedings and looked threatening every time they had the ball. However, they failed to restore parity until the half-time break.
Minutes after the restart, the visitors came close to levelling the score-line, but Alexander Buttner’s effort found the post before going out for a goal-kick.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dries-Mertens-c11679 doubled his side’s lead in the 76th
minute with a brilliant strike.
The Arnhem outfit never gave up after going two goals behind and continued to mount pressure on the home side’s defence. Six minutes before the full time whistle, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mike-Havenaar-c25700 in the box, who
headed home with ease to make the score-line 2-1.
However, Stanislav Manolev restored his side’s two-goal lead in the injury time to seal the game 3-1 in the favour of PSV.
All three points ensure that the Boeren snatch the top spot in the league table from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roda-JC-c40375 Kerkrade on January 28.
Vitesse could very well drop down to eighth spot should http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Twente-c39233 on January 29.
The Arnhem outfit will play against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Heracles-Almelo-c39520 on February 5 in their next Eredivisie encounters.
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