The PSV Chronicle
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Paul Wanner runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at PSV
Nick Olij was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Couhaib Driouech’s goal not enough for PSV
Couhaib Driouech scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AZ, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Couhaib Driouech was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergiño Dest
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Paul Wanner falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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