Arsenal vs PSV Eindhoven: Full H2H file

Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven have come to deal with participation in European competitors as a assure.

The Gunners had gained two European trophies earlier than Arsene Wenger moulded the membership into Champions League ever-presents for the most effective a part of 20 years. PSV haven’t gone with out a continent conflict since 1974.

Maybe unsurprisingly, given their frequency in the identical competitions, Arsenal and PSV are acquainted foes. Regardless of avoiding one another all through the twentieth century, the Eindhoven outfit have performed extra Champions League video games in opposition to Arsenal than another membership.

This is a whole rundown of the head-to-head file between these European regulars.

Arsenal could have claimed the league and cup double throughout the 2001/02 season – solely the third within the membership’s total historical past – however they didn’t win a single away recreation in European competitors that marketing campaign, struggling 5 defeats in six outings.

The Gunners started their 2002/03 continental marketing campaign on the street with a 4-0 thumping in Eindhoven. Gilberto Silva opened the scoring after simply 21 seconds to arrange a ruthless and uncommon away win. Thierry Henry’s late brace could have inflated the scoreline but it surely broke the “psychological restriction” that Wenger had lamented pre-match.

It might get misplaced within the fog of time however Wenger’s Arsenal had an iron fist inside their velvet glove. Each Lauren and skipper Patrick Vieira obtained purple playing cards within the remaining 25 minutes of what was a nervy group recreation in opposition to PSV in 2004, taking the tally of dismissals to a staggering 56 in Wenger’s first eight years on the membership.

“He needed to indicate he was captain by preventing even more durable,” Wenger argued after Vieira’s foul on Park Ji-sung, who averted Vieira’s wrath by becoming a member of Manchester United in the identical summer season that the Frenchman left Arsenal.

As so usually was the case for Wenger’s Arsenal, they clung on to a outcome regardless of shedding a participant. They’d actually had sufficient expertise of enjoying with ten males, however managed properly sufficient with 9 in November 2004.

PSV’s Brazilian centre-back Alex was the topic of some scrutiny coming into the second leg of the 2007 Champions League round-of-16 tie in opposition to Arsenal. By the top of the evening, his title was on everybody’s lips.

Wenger had brazenly questioned the hyperlink between the Dutch membership and Chelsea forward of the tie, with Alex supposedly part-owned by Arsenal’s London rivals. The Gunners misplaced the League Cup remaining to Chelsea, paradoxically, 5 days after struggling defeat within the first leg to Alex’s PSV.

Alex turned the ball into his personal internet on the Emirates to degree the tie on mixture however popped up on the different finish within the 83rd minute, nodding in a nook to ship PSV into the quarter-finals.

After the match, PSV supervisor Ronald Koeman mischievously quipped: “I believe Chelsea will probably be very completely satisfied Alex scored tonight.”

With PSV assured of all three factors in second-half stoppage time, the house followers broke right into a spirited rendition of “All the time look on the intense facet of life”, in English, in order that the travelling help may absolutely understanding the mock concern.

Former Newcastle United misfit Luuk de Jong got here off the bench at half-time to swing the sport, teeing up Joey Veerman’s opener earlier than capitalising upon Aaron Ramsdale’s flapping to double PSV’s lead from a nook.

Mikel Arteta was hardly alone in judging Arsenal’s blunt efficiency as “extraordinarily poor”.

Arsenal vs PSV – Full head-to-head file

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