After the painful relegation from the Europa League, PSV Eindhoven returns to the Dutch league and got exactly the opponent whose victory against them will help to forget the pain – Ajax. Eran Zehavi and his team are six points away from the champion and the leader of the table (she also has a game in hand) and a victory puts her in a great position to threaten the place at the top.
Zehavi was so close to raising PSV to the quarter-finals of the Europa League with four goals in both meetings against Olympiacos, but there are those who have not yet really been impressed that he is what his team needs. In a column in the Dutch “Tahlaraf”, the former striker and Yam Kift who was part of the Orange squad winning the 1988 Euro and also previously played for Eindhoven and Ajax, criticized the Israeli and claimed that he was hurting the progress of Donil Mullen.
In his column, Kift claimed that Zahavi and Mullen did not complement each other and the games against Olympiacos made that clear again. “Zehavi and Mullen are two ambitious pioneers, but it’s problematic,” he wrote. “Mullen is as ambitious as Zehavi and wants to be the top scorer in the Dutch league and be part of the team in the upcoming Euro to grow up to be a scorer and move to a team in a big league, but Zehavi’s presence will not help him do that.”
“It would have been nice if Zehavi and Mullen had complemented each other, but that’s not happening,” Kift continued. “Mullen’s qualities are undoubtedly superior and he always finds himself in the right place and at the right time, but Zehavi is Roger Schmidt’s preferred choice because he is the one who brought him to Eindhoven. “More. If Allen is always replaced, it will give him a sense that Schmidt thinks Zahavi is more important than him.”
“These decisions by Schmidt hurt Mullen’s pace. Zahavi may smell goals like Mullen, but he has always done so in low-level leagues like Israel and China. In the Dutch league and in Italy he finds the net with great difficulty,” Kift concluded.
