PSV's Build-Up Exposed by Twente's Pressing Trap
Twente's John van den Brom found a repeatable flaw in Peter Bosz's PSV: pressing the winger inward left PSV's full-back free every time, exploited via a midfield triangle.
PSV's dominance owed much to how Twente set up their press. John van den Brom's side push with a winger stepping inside, forcing one of PSV's central defenders under pressure while leaving the full-back on that side free.
Peter Bosz had clearly done his homework on Twente's shape, and PSV made use of it for large stretches. The two managers' contrasting ideas about how the match should be played, and their substitutions, shaped the game's swings — a theme the analysis returns to in detail elsewhere.
The pattern points to a dependency PSV have not yet been made to answer: opponents who press the same way Twente did can expect to find the same free man in the same spot.
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