Ricardo Pepi scored in PSV’s Eredivisie return on Saturday however didn’t end the match on the sphere.
Pepi left the match with a identified damaged arm, the membership introduced after its 5-1 victory over Excelsior. The American ahead is scheduled to have surgical procedure on Sunday and is predicted to overlook two months because of the damage.
Pepi scored PSV’s second objective of a four-goal first half on Saturday in Eindhoven, taking his season tally as much as 10 in all competitions. The 23-year-old although suffered the damage after falling awkwardly after his objective celebration.
He was subsequently substituted and watched the remainder of the match from the sidelines.
PSV moved 14 factors clear atop the league desk with the victory whereas fellow American Sergino Dest performed 90 minutes at proper again. Pepi’s damage comes at a vital time in PSV’s season and two months forward of the U.S. males’s nationwide crew’s subsequent window of matches in opposition to Portugal and Belgium.
PSV supervisor Peter Bosz voiced his frustration for Pepi, who missed elements of the 2024-25 marketing campaign attributable to a knee difficulty.
“It didn’t look good straight away and at such a second you like to look the opposite means,” stated Bosz in a membership postmatch interview. “Final January, Ricardo was already out attributable to his knee damage. It received’t take that lengthy now, however sadly we misplaced it once more. Pepi was properly on his means, had a powerful coaching camp behind him and was all the way in which again. He grew to become extra assured in ending and was once more in that good movement. All of the indicators had been inexperienced for a powerful second half of the season, so that is very annoying. First for him and naturally for us too.”
Winners of its final 4 matches in all competitions, PSV will resume its KNVB Cup schedule on Wednesday at FC Den Bosch.