🏏 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:30 CEST
FC Twente
vs
PSV Eindhoven
4-2-3-1 vs 4-2-3-1
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- Fifth-placed Twente (13 points, 4-1-1) host second-placed PSV (16 points, 5-1-0) in Enschede. PSV have scored 22 and conceded seven for a +15 goal difference, winning five in a row: 6-1 away at Utrecht in round four, 3-1 at Ajax in round five and 4-1 at home to Sparta Rotterdam in round six. Sitting one point behind Feyenoord, who have a game more played, they cannot afford to stall.
- Twente arrive in form too, having beaten PEC Zwolle 3-1, won 4-1 at Cambuur and seen off ADO Den Haag 2-0 at home, for a record of 12 scored and five conceded. Their only slip was a 2-2 draw away at Groningen in round five. Three points separate the sides, so a home win would throw Twente straight into the title conversation and they will not want to sit back.
- Japan midfielder Kodai Sano starts in the PSV engine room. The 22-year-old made a permanent move from Fagiano Okayama to NEC Nijmegen before stepping up to Eindhoven, and at 176cm he relies on ball-winning and clean passing rather than physique. A former Japan U20 World Cup player and younger brother of Mainz midfielder Kaishu Sano, he faces one of the Eredivisie's most combative midfields.
- Twente's goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall lines up against his former club. The 36-year-old German came through the Schalke academy and played for Fortuna Düsseldorf, VVV-Venlo and PSV before joining Twente in 2021, where he has been first choice ever since. At 198cm and 103kg he is an imposing presence, and he will need to be against a PSV side who have scored 22 goals in six league games.
- The PSV connections run deep on the Twente bench. Remko Pasveer, 42, won two league titles with PSV and is among the oldest players in the division, while 29-year-old Joël Drommel, a 192cm keeper, collected back-to-back league titles and a KNVB Cup during his own PSV spell. Nineteen-year-old left-footed midfielder Jordy Bawuah, a Belgium U19 international, also came through the PSV academy.
- The midfield duel is the tactical heart of the game. Twente pair 23-year-old Daouda Weidmann — a Paris Saint-Germain academy product who passed through Torino and RKC Waalwijk — with Ramiz Zerrouki, the Algeria international back on loan from Feyenoord with 108 appearances for the club. PSV counter with Sano and Paul Wanner, the 20-year-old left-footed Austrian who became Bayern Munich's youngest ever debutant and scored six goals in 41 Bundesliga games on loan at Heidenheim.
- Aerially, everything runs through Wout Weghorst. The 197cm, 34-year-old Netherlands striker scored 70 goals in 144 games for Wolfsburg and has also played for Manchester United and Beşiktaş, and his hold-up play is how Twente get up the pitch. PSV answer with left-footed centre-back Armando Obispo and Lutsharel Geertruida, on loan from RB Leipzig, a Netherlands international who won the Conference League with Feyenoord.
- PSV's front line is loaded with individual quality. Ricardo Pepi, 23, has 13 goals in 35 caps for the United States and once recorded the youngest hat-trick in MLS history. Behind him, 28-year-old Guus Til scored a hat-trick against Ajax on his PSV debut and previously moved from AZ to Spartak Moscow for 18 million euros, while the left flank belongs to Ivan Perišić, 37, with 142 caps and 33 goals for Croatia.
- The wide areas should be lively. Twente field 22-year-old Norwegian Sondre Ørjasæter, a right-footer cutting in from the left, and Younes Taha, the left-footed Moroccan who started 31 games and scored 14 in the Eerste Divisie with PEC Zwolle and won the 2023 CAF U23 title. PSV reply with Sergiño Dest, 25, a veteran of Ajax, Barcelona and Milan, and Mauro Júnior, the 171cm Brazilian who has been at the club since 2017.
- Both benches carry serious pedigree. Twente can turn to Marko Pjaca, the 27-year-old Croatia winger who was part of the 2018 World Cup final squad and once played for Juventus. PSV have Dennis Man, the 28-year-old Romania international who joined Parma from FCSB for a national record 11 million euros, and Esmir Bajraktarević, 21, who converted the decisive penalty against Italy in a World Cup play-off shootout for Bosnia and Herzegovina.