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Danny Koevermans starts against his former club, when PSV take on AZ at the Philips Stadium on Sunday afternoon, with a 14:30 kick off. PSV caretaker coach Jan Wouters wants his team to play attacking football and also hands starts to the strikers Danko Lazovic, Kenneth Perez and Jefferson Farfán. Eric Addo is available after having missed the Champions League game against Fenerbahçe through suspension. Jan Kromkamp retains his place at right back and Mike Zonneveld plays on the opposite flank.
Three players in Eindhoven service, Koevermans, Perez and Kromkamp, will meet their former club AZ this afternoon. Ismail Aissati, Otman Bakkal and Slobodan Rajkovic are dropped to the bench, where they are joined by youngsters Fagner and Zeefuik.
It will be a special game for Koevermans, who has been called up to the Netherlands squad earlier this week. PSV's leading scorer, who has netted six goals so far this season, scored the winning goal in AZ's 3-2 win in last season's corresponding game and now hopes to repeat this feat for PSV. The Philips Stadium is filled to capacity. The Feyenoord v Ajax encounbter was kicked off at 12:30. If Feyenoord and AZ share the spoils in Rotterdam and PSV see off AZ, the Eindhoven club will go top of the Dutch league again.
PSV starting line-up:
Gomes, Kromkamp, Marcellis, Salcido, Zonneveld, Simons, Addo, Perez, Koevermans, Lazovic and Farfán.
Substitutes: Roorda, Rajkovic, Aissati, Fagner, Van der Leegte, Bakkal, and Zeefuik.
