PSV will after packed Old Trafford also swirling Kuip get shut

,, So I also say to the players: we know what we can expect and need our experience waiting for his '' says coach Phillip Cocu.

If PSV tomorrow afternoon kicks off in a swirling Kuip some players will think back to the Champions League final appearance in Manchester. Even then played football Luuk de Jong & Co. against a living wall of nearly 80,000 fans the home team fanatically shouting forward. PSV survived the fury, gradually came into its game after the break and got even the best chances to go more than 0-0 of the field. The hurricane of the initial phase? Which had subsided at the end of a breeze.

De Kuip get shut like Old Trafford, which PSV in mind. ,, They have to bring the Champions League success feel to Sunday. And immediately strike a blow in the title race, '' said former goalkeeper and current PSV Commissioner Hans van Breukelen this week.

Attack
Coach Phillip Cocu chooses the verbal assault when he talks about the first highlight of the second half of the competition. Cocu not, the string of five consecutive defeats in away games with Feyenoord central issue, but the recent performance in Europe.

A reporter tried yesterday a while. But Cocu responded grasped the term 'Kuip Fear'. ,, Cockpit Fear? I prefer to turn. We're just going to play in a great stadium, in a season in which we show that we can achieve a high level in big games. And then the cockpit also has a good turf. I just tell the players that there is a tremendous challenge. ''

Nine o'clock PSV this season in the Champions League. And only the first 45 minutes in Moscow and the first 15 after the break in Wolfsburg fell from the tone throughout the campaign. The other eight hours of the league champion kept up nicely. And stronger: PSV took ten points and qualified for the second round.

PSV now also travels almost at full strength to Rotterdam. Only for Simon Poulsen and Jetro Willems is the winner prematurely. But Cocu does have Maxime Lestienne on board, so that PSV in the vanguard can play poker to your heart's content.

Shortcoming
Feyenoord side they do not expect any surprises at PSV. Everyone expects Tonny Vilhena to play for the suspended Karim El Ahmadi. The middle line of Feyenoord has thus two left feet and lost a lot of experience in. Cocu: ,, El Ahmadi is a box-to-box player, smart and skillful. That's a loss, but they still have the experience of Kuyt and they have Elijah with his individual actions. Feyenoord is in my mind a team in which the proportions. ''

But Cocu also knows the number three of the Premier League is not the Champions League caliber.

Maarten Wijffels / © AD Sportwereld.