While the visitors try to keep up speed with Ajax, the hosts find themselves in fifth position after three consecutive defeats.
Having witnessed his side let slip a two-goal advantage at Ajax earlier this month, PSV boss Roger Schmidt would have had concerns that his side had missed their chance to remain in close proximity with the leaders.
While Ajax won their next 4 games, PSV managed to string together 3 consecutive wins, the last one being in Emmen in midweek.
PSV have two goals in the final 10 minutes to defeat the team at the bottom of the table, which will worry Schmidt ahead of a meeting with one of their big-name rivals.
Nevertheless, as shown elsewhere in midweek, results are all that are important at this stage of the campaign, and sitting four points adrift of Ajax remains a respectable position to be in with 15 fixtures remaining.
Donyell Malen had a game without finding the back of the net on Tuesday, but his strike partner Eran Zahavi managed to score for the moment in the same game.
Feyenoord’s warring sides would have had high hopes of keeping up speed with Ajax and PSV after recording three straight wins at the start of the year.
However, setbacks suffered by leaders AZ Alkmaar and Heerenveen left Dick Advocaat in danger of squandering European seats.
With sixth-placed Groningen going to stay in this match, De club aan de Maas are struggling to turn things around in the defensive third of the pitch.
Feyenoord have conceded 8 goals in their last 3 matches in all competitions, 3 of them in a 22-minute period at Heerenveen on Wednesday evening.
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PSV Eindhoven Eredivisie form: WDLWWWPSV Eindhoven form (all competitions): DLWWWW
Advocaat will most likely make adjustments to his Feyenoord XI after their capitulation to Heerenveen.
Eric Botteghin, Lucas Pratto and Bryan Linssen are all pushing for recalls to the starting lineup.
While Feyenoord are missing Joao Teixeira, Justin Bijlow and Orkun Kokcu, PSV have Nick Viergever, Armando Obispo, Cody Gakpo, Richard Ledezma and Maximiliano Romero.
Mario Gotze is in the running to return to the team, while Mohamed Ihattaren could start if he recovers from his illness.
Feyenoord possible starting lineup:Marsman; Geertruida, Botteghin, Senesi, Malacia; Diemers, Fer, Toornstra; Berghuis, Jorgensen, Linssen
PSV Eindhoven’s possible XI: Mvogo; Dumfries, Teze, Boscagli, Max; Thomas, Rosario, Sangaré, Ihattaren; Malen, Zahavi
The way their defeat in Heerenveen will affect all those related to Feyenoord, means that a match against PSV does not come at the right time. Although we expect the home team to fight harder, PSV deserves to be able to take the credit. the lack of confidence in Feyenoord’s third defender.
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a PSV Eindhoven win with a probability of 52.92%. A win for Feyenoord had a probability of 23.98% and a draw had a probability of 23.1%.
The most likely scoreline for a PSV Eindhoven win was 1-2 with a probability of 9.77%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 0-1 (9.48%) and 0-2 (8.56%). The likeliest Feyenoord win was 2-1 (6.17%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (10.82%). The actual scoreline of 3-1 was predicted with a 2.3% likelihood.