By Manuel Acevedo
24 Oct 2023, 21:43 PM EDT
Hirving “Chucky” Lozano could not help PSV achieve its first victory in the UEFA Champions League, which drew 1-1 against Racing Club de Lens. The Mexican winger had a clear scoring chance to put his team ahead on the scoreboard, but he missed it.
The Netherlands team needed to defeat the French team in order to get out of the bottom of the Group B standings. Action that he could not achieve and took a bittersweet taste with only one point achieved.
In the 27th minute of the match, Chucky Lozano He appeared with a play in the left area, faced up and entered the area with a cross shot that ended up hitting the left post of the French team’s goal.
The Mexican winger was very active in the match against Lenswith his arrival to the Netherlands team he is given the obligation to have certain responsibilities on the field.
Lozano has been active in the first three games of the PSV in the Champions League, His team seeks to score points to fight to even have a ticket to the Europa League playoffs.
How did PSV and Lens reach a draw?
The first minutes of the match were dominated by the Lens team with possession of the ball, while the PSV team spent the first minutes of the match. The first clear scoring opportunity was in favor of the French team, when their right back shot a cross that deflected off one of the defenders and the goalkeeper had to come out to catch the ball.
The first clear chance for PSV came in the 26th minute of action, when Hirving “Chucky” Lozano, After an individual play on the left wing, he made a shot that missed the Lens goalkeeper, but the ball crashed into the left post.
After that situation, The match fell into a back and forth between the two teams, but neither of them managed to open the scoring. With that, the main match ended the first half of the match.
At the beginning of the second half the PSV took possession of the ball and after 48 minutes of action Lozano had a clear chance goal that at the moment of definition was covered by the central defender of Lens.
The scoring of the match opened in the 54th minute when Johan Bakayoko took a strong left foot tirelessly for the rival goalkeeper.
With PSV scoring, the French team went on the attack in search of an equalizer and achieved it after a cross from the right wing that hit Elye Wahi to shake the nets after 65 minutes of play.
After the tying goal, the match again fell into a back-and-forth between both teams. With this tie the Netherlands team He was left with a total of two units that leaves him in the last place in Group C.
PSV has a very different present in the Eredivisie in which they have a total of nine victories in nine matches played, being the sole leaders of the league.
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