Phillip Cocu’s first game in charge of the Boeren ended in disappointment, as their European journey was cut short with a 5-3 aggregate loss.
In the return leg of UEFA Europa League round of 16, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 at Philips Stadion on Thursday, March 15. However, La Liga outfit advanced to the quarter-finals of Europe’s second tier competition
with a 5-3 aggregate win.
After receiving a 4-2 hammering in the first-leg on March 8, PSV needed a miraculous performance to overturn the deficit in the return leg at home. Although they commenced proceedings brightly, the visiting side had the better chances in the opening 45 minutes.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jonas-c18967 Goncalves’ fierce drive early on. Moments later, the striker’s powered effort sailed inches over the crossbar, much to the relief of the Boeren head coach, Phillip Cocu.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Alves-c11071, made a good diving save to deny the Swedish ace’s header from going into the back of the net.
In the 44th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aritz-Aduriz-c6516 then headed over the crossbar from close range from the resulting
corner.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adil-Rami-c3639.
The visiting side came out with aggressive intent after the half-time break and took the lead in the 47th minute. Sofiane Feghouli’s effort from the edge of the box took a deflection off Rami’s head and wrong-footed diving Tyton to find the bottom
right corner of the net.
The Eindhoven giants managed to score the equaliser in the 64th minute through Toivonen. Zakaria Labyad’s cross was flicked on by Tim Matavz and it went straight to the Swedish ace at the far post, and he made no mistake in slotting home from
close range.
Alves then made a brilliant save to deny Kevin Strootman’s long range effort. Rami was shown a straight red card in the 89th minute for hitting Toivonen inside the penalty area in an off-the-ball incident.
The home side played six minutes of stoppage time with an extra-man. However, they failed to add any more goals to the score-line and had to bid farewell to their European voyage with a 5-3 aggregate loss.
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