PSV v Girona

Tuesday’s early kick-off Champions League offering between PSV and Girona pits together two teams currently on the fringes of the qualifying playoff places.  

Girona currently occupy 24^th position – the final place that will qualify for the next stage of the competition. They’ve won one and lost two of their matches so far. The win came last time out, 2-0 versus Slovan Bratislava. The two defeats came at the hands of PSG (1-0) and Feyenoord (3-2). 

PSV are yet to win in the competition and are currently placed 28^th of the 36 teams. After losing to Juventus (3-1) on match week 1, they’ve since played out two 1-1 draws against Sporting and PSG. 

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Both teams to score has happened in 3/3 of PSV’s Champions League matches to date and in 7/11 Eredivisie matches. That’s 71% of PSV matches this season where both teams have scored.  

The BTTS data around Girona isn’t as compelling. However, maybe we had a precursor for the PSV game when they played Feyenoord. The two games feel closely related. When Girona hosted Feyenoord both teams to score had come to fruition after just 23 minutes with the game ended with 2.3xG versus 1.86xG .

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🔍 PSV v Girona Players to Watch

🔴 Miguel Gutierrez

No team in La Liga have delivered more crosses into the box than Girona with Miguel Gutierrez earning plaudits for his whipped delivery. Gutierrez ranks in the Top 10 players for expected assists in the league – sharing the table with the likes of Vini Jr, Raphinha, and Lamine Yamel.  

Gutierrez's cross numbers in La Liga and Champions League matches this season read 6-3-5-4-5-3-3-2-2-4-5-6-5-7. His accurate cross-success rate is 54%.  

Gutierrez has a throwback style where he keeps chalk on his boots, providing his team’s width, getting the ball outside of his feet, and whipping balls into the box. It has resulted in two assists so far this season. In last season’s La Liga campaign, he averaged an assist every 3.87 matches and finished the season with a total of seven assists. 

⚪️ Rick Karsdorp

Up against Girona’s left flank will be Rick Karsdorp, he’s faced with the toughest task on the PSV side. 

PSV’s attacking threat is multifaceted with ‘players to watch’ right across the front line and midfield. But, if PSV are to be successful then Karsdorp has to shackle the flying fullback, Gutierrez and maybe might even be up against an out-and-out winger also, depending on what shape Girona adopt in the game. 

Karsdorp has mainly been a periphery player this season but injuries have seen him step up in recent weeks. He’s played the full match of PSV’s last three fixtures and has foul numbers that read 0-2-5 and has received one yellow card. 

📂 PSV v Girona Cheat Sheet

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💻 PSV v Girona Form and Tactics

PSV typically line up in a 4-3-3 out-of-possession shape that becomes a 2-3-5 when attacking. The wingers tend to stay high and wide with two #8’s joining Luuk De Jong centrally. With Joey Veerman and Jerdy Schouten currently injured, Malik Tillman has adapted from playing advanced into a more reserved midfield role. The two fullbacks invert a little and allow the wingers to keep the width. 

PSV go into the match with Girona off the back of a 3-2 defeat to Ajax. A win in that fixture would have sent PSV 11 points clear in the Eredivisie and possibly wrapped up the title in November. As it happens, Ajax are now just 5 points behind with a game in hand. Prior to the Ajax defeat, PSV were unbeaten in six – including two Champions League matches. 

The Eindhoven team are the top scorers in their domestic league with 37 goals scored in 11 matches. They already have three players who have scored 5+ goals this season in the Eredivisie – Luuk de Jong, Malik Tillman, and Ricardo Pepi. 

Personnel-wise, Girona are a different-looking side to the one that challenged at the top of La Liga for so much of last season.  

They are currently bang in mid-table, sitting 10^th out of 20 with 15 points from 12 matches played. But they are underperforming their numbers and are projected to rise a few places higher in the table as the season progresses. 

Girona have two base formations a flat 4-4-2 or a 3-4-2-1. In each set up their threat comes from the flank. Especially on the left where attacking wing-back Miguel Gutierrez has scored twice and assisted three times already this season. This is evidenced by the number of crosses Girona have delivered in La Liga this season, 224, the most in the division. 

An interesting wrinkle to the Girona squad is that they have three former Ajax players who have featured heavily this season in Daley Blind, Donny van de Beek, and Gabriel Misehoey. The trio will be well-versed in all things PSV. 

Girona’s form is indifferent – they’ve won three and lost two of their last five matches but they do come into the game with confidence having scored eight goals in the last week, a 4-0 Copa del Rey win over CD Extremadura and a 4-3 win over Leganes at the weekend. 

🏁 PSV v Girona Ref Watch

• Referee: Michael Oliver (England)
• Has refereed three Champions League matches this season (2 league stage, 1 qualifier) and has given fifteen yellow cards – an average of 5 per game 
• Has given 65 yellow cards in 14 matches across all competitions this season – an average of 5.22 per game 
• Has given 4 penalties this season – an average of one penalty every 3.5 games.

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