Neither Noni Madueke nor Cody Gakpo have featured since PSV's defeat to Monaco over a month ago. On top of that, Eran Zahavi looks set to miss out with a knee injury. Jordan Teze, Ryan Thomas and Richard Ledezma are also sidelined for the home side on Thursday. Marko Van Ginkel is looking for a recall after he was an unused substitute in PSV's 2-0 win over Vitesse at the weekend. Olivier Boscagli and Carlos Vinicius are both one booking away from a one-match ban in the Europa League. Sandro Ingolitsch, Otar Kiteishvili, Francisco Mwepu, Stefan Hierlander and Vincent Trummer are all sidelined for Sturm Graz on Thursday.
PSV cannot pass up this opportunity to go into the top two on Thursday as they host bottom side Sturm Graz knowing the top two, Real Sociedad and Monaco, play each other in the group's other game. PSV are currently third but only three points off top spot. Sturm Graz have lost three of their four group games but did hold Real Sociedad to a 1-1 draw last time out in the competition. Despite such a poor record in the Europa League, they have actually only conceded more than once in one of their four group games, though that was a 4-1 loss to PSV. 1:0
It still appears to be a three horse race in the penultimate round of this Europa League group, though visiting Sturm are essentially already out of that race. Currently sat in third, PSV need to win to definitely set up a shootout for qualification to the Europa League knockout round on the final day and I am predicting them to do just that, as they often have when Austrian sides are the opponents (W10, D2, L3). The permutations surrounding Sturm Graz are not to straight forward, they can now only finish third which would see them to the Europa Conference League knockout rounds, but that would require a win here and a win over group leaders Monaco on the final day to even stand a chance. Given how unlikely that sequence of events is to happen and the fact that they would still be relying on PSV to drop points in the final round, I am predicting that they will buckle under the pressure and fall to a comprehensive defeat, one which would worsen their already-poor away form in the Europ
Neither Noni Madueke nor Cody Gakpo have featured since PSV's defeat to Monaco over a month ago. On top of that, Eran Zahavi looks set to miss out with a knee injury. Jordan Teze, Ryan Thomas and Richard Ledezma are also sidelined for the home side on Thursday. Marko Van Ginkel is looking for a recall after he was an unused substitute in PSV's 2-0 win over Vitesse at the weekend. Olivier Boscagli and Carlos Vinicius are both one booking away from a one-match ban in the Europa League. Sandro Ingolitsch, Otar Kiteishvili, Francisco Mwepu, Stefan Hierlander and Vincent Trummer are all sidelined for Sturm Graz on Thursday.
PSV cannot pass up this opportunity to go into the top two on Thursday as they host bottom side Sturm Graz knowing the top two, Real Sociedad and Monaco, play each other in the group's other game. PSV are currently third but only three points off top spot. Sturm Graz have lost three of their four group games but did hold Real Sociedad to a 1-1 draw last time out in the competition. Despite such a poor record in the Europa League, they have actually only conceded more than once in one of their four group games, though that was a 4-1 loss to PSV. 1:0
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