PSV Eindhoven vs Willem II - prediction, team news, lineups

Third-placed PSV Eindhoven big bottom-placed Willem II successful an Eredivisie fixture astatine the Philips Stadion connected Saturday.

The champions way unbeaten leaders Feyenoord by 4 points aft a 1-1 gully connected Sunday, portion Willem II, inactive without a league triumph aft 10 matches, volition person their 3rd caput manager successful 4 games.

Match preview

The reigning champions beryllium 3rd successful the Eredivisie table with 20 points from 10 matches, up of AZ Alkmaar and FC Twente connected extremity difference, and their grounds of six wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats includes 28 goals scored and 13 conceded.

Peter Bosz's broadside mislaid 2-1 astatine recently promoted ADO Den Haag connected October 17, with Sven Mijnans scoring the opener, being sent disconnected for a 2nd yellowish paper earlier fractional clip and Matej Sin scoring the victor successful the 93rd minute.

Three days aboriginal the Boeren won 1-0 astatine FC Porto done Guus Til's 57th-minute goal, their archetypal triumph of the Champions League league signifier aft a 1-1 gully with Shakhtar Donetsk and a 1-0 decision astatine RB Leipzig.

Til volleyed PSV up against Feyenoord successful the 21st infinitesimal aft Lutsharel Geertruida kept a cleared transverse alive, but Anis Hadj Moussa curled successful an equaliser successful the 54th minute.

Geertruida had a 73rd-minute extremity ruled retired for offside against Ivan Perisic successful the build-up, and Armando Obispo headed against the extracurricular of the station earlier fractional time, which backed up Bosz's assertion that PSV deserved to win.

Til has six league goals and Mijnans five, but the Eindhovens Dagblad called the guardant enactment the main concern, with Perisic and Ruben van Bommel some expected to lend more.

PSV were besides held 1-1 by Willem II astatine location connected February 8, 2025, erstwhile Noa Lang's 62nd-minute onslaught was cancelled retired by Mickael Tirpan successful the 83rd minute.

Willem II are 18th connected 2 points from 10 matches, with nary wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats, and their extremity quality of -22 comes from 10 goals scored and 32 conceded.

The 6-1 location decision by chap promoted broadside Cambuur connected October 24 was the Friesland club's biggest distant triumph successful Eredivisie history, with Nicolas Binder scoring doubly and the visitors 3-0 up aft 18 minutes.

That effect followed a 3-2 decision astatine Sparta Rotterdam connected October 17, successful which Tonny Vilhena and Uriel van Aalst scored, and a 3-1 nonaccomplishment astatine FC Utrecht connected October 11.

Willem II dismissed John Stegeman connected Tuesday, October 20, aft method manager Freek Heerkens decided helium saw excessively small imaginable of improvement, and adjunct Pascal Diender near with him.

Adrie Koster, a 71-year-old method advisor astatine the club, past took complaint for 8 days, and his broadside were whistled disconnected astatine fractional clip against Cambuur portion trailing 3-0.

Koster did oversee the Tricolores' archetypal triumph of the season, a 4-3 cupful triumph astatine second-tier Helmond Sport connected Tuesday, October 27, successful which Devin Haen scored an overhead footwear and substitute Jaden Slory was sent disconnected with the people astatine 4-2.

Jurgen Streppel, 57, was appointed connected Wednesday, October 28 until the extremity of the season, returning to a nine helium coached from 2011 to 2016 and led into the Eredivisie twice, aft being dismissed by Cypriot second-tier nine Akritas Chlorakas, with endurance arsenic the stated aim.

Willem II's past league triumph implicit PSV came successful Tilburg connected September 25, 2021 (2-1), and they person taken 1 constituent from the 3 meetings since.

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Team News

Jerdy Schouten, who suffered a superior genu wounded against FC Utrecht connected April 4 and faces a betterment of astir 9 months, and Alassane Plea, who is retired for the remainder of the calendar year, stay semipermanent absentees for PSV.

Paul Wanner and Adamo Nagalo are besides unavailable, striker Sam Lammers trained with Jong PSV past week but was not acceptable for the Feyenoord squad, and Sami Ouaissa, a €9m (£7.6m) signing from NEC who played a fractional for Jong PSV past week, missed a reserve fixture done fittingness and needs a caller aesculapian examination.

Ricardo Pepi is backmost successful grooming but was not acceptable capable for the Feyenoord crippled and is simply a uncertainty for Saturday, portion Kiliann Sildillia, absent from precocious August until the Porto trip, is besides unconfirmed.

Mijnans is disposable again aft serving a one-match prohibition against Feyenoord, which gives Bosz a 2nd cardinal enactment alongside Til, who near the ADO crippled successful the 39th infinitesimal aft landing connected the backmost of his caput but scored successful Porto.

Van Bommel, who missed overmuch of past play with a cruciate ligament injury, returned to commencement against Feyenoord aft being near retired of the squad for the ADO and Porto games.

Willem II were without Amine Lachkar, who has a groin wounded and has not played since July, and Justin Hoogma, who has a genu problem, for the Cambuur game.

Slory, who is connected indebtedness from Feyenoord, is acceptable to miss the crippled successful Eindhoven aft his reddish paper for a dense situation astatine Helmond.

Vilhena scored astatine Sparta and again astatine Helmond, and Haen's overhead footwear was the item of the cupful win.

PSV Eindhoven imaginable starting lineup:

Kovar; Dest, Obispo, Geertruida, Kostic; Mauro Junior, Sano; Perisic, Til, Van Bommel; Mijnans

Willem II imaginable starting lineup:

Didillon-Hodl; Ter Avest, Stam, Dekker, Tjoe-A-On; Twigt, Vilhena; Zarrouk, Van Aalst, Van Crooij; Haen

We say: PSV Eindhoven 3-0 Willem II

PSV people 2.8 league goals per lucifer and Willem II concede 3.2, and with Willem II having shipped 12 goals successful their past 3 league games, a triumph by 3 wide goals is the astir apt outcome.

Streppel was appointed connected Wednesday night, which leaves him little than 3 days to prepare, truthful the antiaircraft disorganisation seen against Cambuur, wherever the visitors were 3-0 up wrong 18 minutes, is improbable to beryllium fixed by Saturday.

PSV look Club Brugge successful the Champions League connected Wednesday, November 4, truthful Bosz whitethorn rotate, but Esmir Bajraktarevic, Mikkel Bro Hansen and Dennis Man each featured against Feyenoord and springiness him extent against a broadside yet to triumph a league game.

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