PSV Eindhoven hosts Go Ahead Eagles in round 18 of the Dutch Eredivisie. The match will be played on Thursday, December 23rd at Philips Stadion (Eindhoven)
PSV Eindhoven is one of the giants of Dutch football. More recently (in 2015-2018), the club won three champion’s titles in four years. But then it took a back seat. The start of the current season was very powerful. Roger Schmidt's charges nearly made it to the Champions League. They simply destroyed Galatasaray and Midtjylland in the first two qualification rounds, but they were unlucky with Benfica in the decisive round. In the Europa League, the Farmers took only third place in their group, and in February they will get acquainted with the Conference League. Perhaps the team from Eindhoven focused on the local championship, where it is providing real competition to Ajax. The Red-Whites hammered their rival in the Super Cup final (4-0). And now they are ahead of the Jews by one point in the Eredivisie standings (40 against 39). There was only one draw in the last seven rounds, and in total PSV has not won only three times since the beginning of the season.
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Go Ahead Eagles have a good history, as not many Dutch teams can boast of four titles. But the club was the grandee of the Netherlands back in the interwar period. The current reality for them is that rather rare and infrequently successful attempts to gain a foothold in the Eredivisie are mixed with protracted periods in a lower division. Since 2017, Go Ahead Eagles have consistently played in the Eerste Divisie. And only Kees van Wonderen, who spent most of his career as an assistant, brought them to the elite. The team was ranked 2nd in the weaker league. Of course, it was considered one of the main outsiders of the elite. But the Eagles can meet the holidays quite calmly, realizing that they have accomplished the basic tasks for the first half of the championship. They managed to score 21 points in 17 rounds and secured a good gap from the relegation zone. But the newcomer relaxed too early. It won only once in the last four games, beating Roda in the cup. In the championship, three previous matches ended in one draw and two defeats. Are the Eagles thinking only about the holidays, which will last until mid-January?
If we look at the last 16 head-to-head matches, Go Ahead Eagles managed to gain only one draw in 1995. In the current season, when clubs played for the first time since 2017, PSV extended its winning streak, but with difficulty. Van Ginkel brought a 1-2 away victory at the end of the game. Bookmakers do not doubt the victory of PSV in the upcoming game. It seems that the visitors do not plan to resist, so we bet on the hosts to win with a -2 handicap.
Prediction for the match: PSV to win with -2.0 handicap
