The Friesland outfit's boss insisted that his side failed to capitalise on goalscoring opportunities and defended poorly against PSV Eindhoven that cost them a place in the Dutch cup final.
Heerenveen head coach, Ron Jans, was disappointed with his side’s 3-1 KNVB beker cup semi-final loss at the hands of PSV Eindhoven at Abe Lenstra Stadion on Wednesday, March 21.
The Dutch trainer has insisted that his side failed to capitalise on the goalscoring opportunities and defended poorly that cost them a spot in the final. He has also asserted that the result would have been a different one had his troops taken their chances
against the Boeren.
Despite going 1-0 down inside 25 minutes of play, the Friesland outfit staged an impressive show at home in the opening half. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Zakaria-Labyad-c37796 gave the Eindhoven giants the lead in the 23rd minute.
The visiting side’s joy lasted only for 11 minutes, as the home side restored parity. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Viktor-Elm-c36129 to make the score-line 1-1.
Both sides failed to create any openings of note in the remaining action of the first-half. However, the Eindhoven giants scored the two goals inside five minutes of second-half action to dent the hosts’ hopes of progressing through to the final.
Georginio Wijnaldum’s powered effort found the left corner of the net in the 46th minute while Tim Matavz tucked home Jeremain Lens’ pass from close range to make it 3-1.
Heerenveen battled hard to crawl their way back into the match, but the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Przemyslaw-Tyton-c30175, made brilliant saves to deny the Friesland outfit. The match eventually ended in a 3-1 win in favour of the Boeren.
Jans was disappointed with the result and revealed that his troops failed to defend while PSV took full advantage and put the match to bed by scoring two quick goals early in the second-half.
“Given the situation of the game and the way we played, this was not the right result. It could have gone the other way as well. We defended poorly and then failed to capitalise on the goalscoring opportunities. However, now I am certain that we can compete
against the top teams”, Jans was quoted as saying to De Telegraaf.
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