A brace from Ola Toivonen and further goals from Tim Matavz, Georginio Wijnaldum and Marcelo secured all three points for the Eindhoven giants.
In the last round of Eredivisie fixtures before the winter break, PSV Eindhoven thrashed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SC-Heerenveen-c40463 5-1 at Abe Lenstra Stadion on Sunday, December 18.
The home side started the match brightly and could have taken the lead in the sixth minute through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bas-Dost-c7339. Darryl Janmaat played an impressive ball to the giant striker, but he failed to hit the target and the ball went out for a goal-kick.
In the 18th minute, the Eindhoven giants made their first real move forward and took the lead through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Zakaria-Labyad-c37796 made an impressive run on the left flank before crossing the ball, which found the Swede ace inside the box and
he made no mistake in nodding home.
Two minutes later, the Boeren doubled their lead through Tim Matavz. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stanislav-Manolev-c33925 delivered a stunning cross from the right flank into the box and the Slovenian ace timed his jumped to perfection before heading into the top left corner of the net.
In the 24th minute, PSV scored their third of the evening with Toivonen added his name to the score-sheet for the second time. Matavz and Toivonen played an impressive one-two before the Swedish International slotted home with a neat finish.
After conceding three goals at a high pace, the Heerenveen outfit slowed things down on the pitch and tried to crawl their way back into the match. However, they failed to pierce the solid PSV back-line. At the half-time interval, the Eindhoven giants were
leading the match 3-0.
The visitors commenced the second-half impressively and it took them only four minutes to further extend their lead through http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Georginio-Wijnaldum-c14629. The young midfielder took full advantage of the Heerenveen back line's inability to deal with high balls in the
area by heading home his side’s fourth goal of the evening.
In the 59th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kevin-Strootman-c20775 delivered a corner and the stopper out-jumped his marker to guide the ball into the back of the net.
Rajiv van la Parra pulled one back for the home side in the 73rd minute. However, it was too little too late for the Heerenveen outfit to change the outcome of the match. When the referee blew the final whistle, the score-line read 5-1 in favour
of PSV.
All three points coupled with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 head into the winter break a solitary point behind the league leaders Alkmaar based outfit.
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