Ricardo Pepi made positive to benefit from his cameo in UEFA Champions League play on Tuesday night time.
Pepi got here off the bench to attain his third objective of the season in all competitions as PSV routed Napoli 6-2 in UCL league part play. The American striker made his second Champions League look of the marketing campaign.
Napoli scored the opening objective of the match via Scott McTominay’s header however PSV would reply again in fast succession. An personal objective from Alessandro Buongiorno paired with Ismael Saibari’s go-ahead end propelled Peter Bosz’s squad in entrance 2-1 at halftime.
Dennis Man prolonged PSV’s result in 3-1 9 minutes after the interval earlier than Napoli ultimately noticed its comeback probabilities diminish.
Lorenzo Lucca was despatched off within the 76th minute, decreasing the Serie A guests to 10-men.
Man added his second objective of the night time, and regardless of McTominay including an insurance coverage tally 4 minutes from time, Pepi added two objective contributions of his personal.
The USMNT ahead completed off Couhaib Driouech’s move within the 87th minute earlier than returning the favor to Driouech two minutes later. It marked Pepi’s first match with an help this season and his first goalscoring efficiency since September 13.
Fellow USMNT teammate Sergino Dest additionally performed 5 minutes off of the bench.
The end result moved PSV to eleventh within the UCL desk via three matches performed.
Each Pepi and Dest will now be pushing to begin for PSV on Sunday with a top-two Eredivisie date in opposition to Feyenoord developing.