A brace from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dries-Mertens-c11679 sealed an impressive win for Phillip Cocu’s side.
In round-33 of the Dutch top tier, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/ADO-Den-Haag-c38221 at Philips Stadion on Wednesday, May 2.
The Eindhoven giants commenced proceedings at home brightly and never showed any intentions of dropping points. Jeremain Lens had the first attempt of the match when he fired well over the crossbar.
In the 10th minute, Ola Toivonen had an opportunity to break the deadlock, but his headed effort was off target. Moments later, the Swedish ace missed another opportunity to hit the back of the net from close range.
Twelve minutes later, the home side managed to take the lead through Lens. Dries Mertens sent a short cross into the box for the 24-year-old winger, who did well to open the scoring from close range.
After missing a couple of good goalscoring opportunities, Toivonen managed to add his name to the score-sheet in the 38th minute. Atiba Hutchinson’s cross from the right flank was perfectly headed into the bottom left corner of the net by the
Swedish International.
The Eindhoven giants continued to dominate and almost scored another minutes later, but Mertens' lobbed effort rattled the right post, while the ADO goalkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gino-Coutinho-c14919, made a good save to keep out Kevin Strootman’s effort moments before the half-time
break.
PSV resumed the second-half in the same manner, but both sides had to leave the pitch due to heavy rain in the 48th minute.
The visiting side would have hoped for the rain to disrupt PSV’s momentum. However, it was not to be, as the hosts continued to assert their authority. Coutinho had to deny http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Georginio-Wijnaldum-c14629 twice and Labyad before PSV scored their third of the night in
the 62nd minute.
A Lens low pass across the face of the goal was coolly tapped in by Toivonen to make the score-line 3-0.
Four minutes later, Labyad received an inch-perfect cross inside the penalty area from Lens, and the powerful forward took his time before unleashing a powerful curling effort that found the top right corner of the net.
Two minutes before the full time whistle, the Eindhoven giants added another through Mertens. The pint-sized winger played a neat one-two with Strootman inside the box before firing home to seal an impressive looking 5-0 win.
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