Written by PSV hosted Arsenal in another game of the Europa League. The two Managers named very strong squads and it was very evident that they all wanted to get better results. PSV proved to Arsenal that they needed a win in that game more than the Gunners.
The players fought tooth and nail and made sure that they got the results they wanted. PSV scored two goals in the first half but they were all ruled out for offside positions. This really tested Arsenal and showed how fatigued the players were.
The Gunners were so lucky for the two teams to go for the half time break when the score line was 0-0. Ruud van Nistelrooy made a quick change in the second half and brought in Luuk De Jong in place of Anwar El Ghazi.
He made a huge difference and his team started to get the goals. He gave Joey Veerman a good pass that led to PSV’s first goal that was allowed in the game. Moments later, Luuk De Jong got himself on the score sheet after Cody Gakpo gave him a good pass.
This was a huge setback to Mikel Arteta. He tried to gamble with his substitutes and brought in Thomas Partey in place of Albert Sambi Lokonga, Bukayo Saka in place of Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Jesus in place of Rob Holding, Ben White in place of Takehiro Tomiyasu and Gabriel in place of Kieran Tierney.
The game ended 2-0 in favor of PSV and this was the first group stage game that Arsenal lost after starting a successful campaign of the group stage.