Rampant PSV dismantle Twente in seven-goal blockbuster | OneFootball

PSV continued their dominance at the Eredivisie’s summit on Friday evening with an emphatic dispatch of FC Twente. Sem Steijn struck the first blow for the Tukkers with a superb free-kick goal just 10 minutes in, but once the Eindhoven engine was running, the team from Enschede were simply pulverized.

As said, Twente opened the scoring, however, the hosts took just 10 minutes to react. Cutting in from the left, Noa Lang beat Michal Sadílek well before placing an effort past low and hard past Lars Unnerstall’s stand-in, Przemysław Tytoń.

On 34′, the hosts truly shifted the momentum as Malik Tillman emerged from a scrappy box to fire in a right-sided cross low off the right post. Ismael Saibari then aptly capped a flowing team move two minutes into stoppage time.

Despite the interval arriving mercifully, Twente just couldn’t regroup and Saibari resumed the scoring on 54′ – firing into the bottom-left corner with aplomb after being played in by Ricardo Pepi. The latter’s USMNT colleague Richard Ledesma then made it 5-1 with a fine strike from a tough angle on the right, before Pepi himself rounded off a fine day with a stylish chip five minutes from time.

PSV currently sit a-top of the Eredivisie handsomely with 14 games won out of a possible 15, forty-two points acquired and fifty-six goals scored. They are nine points clear of the chasing pack leaders Ajax in second.

After they face Brest away from home in the UEFA Champions League, a visit to SC Heerenveen awaits, before the year-ending match is in a little over two weeks at home against Feyenoord. Twente remains in fifth place. Joseph Oosting’s troops play at Olympiakos on Thursday and welcome FC Groningen on Sunday.

GBeNeFN | Max Bradfield