Van Hanegem Slams PSV Players’ Attitude

Willem van Hanegem also saw that Feyenoord had a hopeless afternoon visiting PSV. The Eindhoven team shot out of the starting blocks and put the Rotterdam guests 3-0 behind after eighteen minutes.

After PSV away you can only conclude that there is nothing left in this Feyenoord,” Van Hanegem writes in his column in the Algemeen Dagblad. “They put some balls forward through that restless keeper on Ayase Ueda and that’s it. PSV accelerated for fifteen minutes and then thought it was enough. After a tough match against Bayern Munich, it was nice that they only had to worry for fifteen minutes.”

“And they still play a cup match this week, so they could quickly think about that,” he continues. “Peter Bosz just threw all relatively unknown players into the field, it was that easy. If, as a Feyenoord, you see players laughing at a certain moment because Guus Til squandered a nice heading opportunity, you have to think: how low can we sink even further?”

“But if Feyenoord continues like this, soon no one will travel in Europe anymore,” ‘De Kromme’ continues. “Because this team can decline further in the coming weeks. If you really think that Jeremiah St. Juste – who, as I understand it, was not even allowed to stand on the edge of the training field at Sporting – and Mats Deijl can turn things around, then you are wrong.”

“They are probably nice guys and Deijl always gives great interviews, but their words can never have such an impact as when Justin Bijlow and Quinten Timber said something in the dressing room? That simply does not exist. Who should they listen to now? Maybe Luciano Valente. I was in the Philips Stadium and I thought he was the best at Feyenoord. You can imagine. Because Valente also did not get a passing grade,” said Van Hanegem.