PSV reached the final sixteen of the UEFA Cup by eliminating Helsingsborg over two legs with PSV winning the return in Sweden 1-2 after a 2-0 win in Eindhoven the week before. PSV had no problems with the Swedish team with the Dutch champions easily surviving the attacking waves of Helsingsborg in the first half. In the second half two goals from the visitors decided the match with Helsingsborg pulling one goal back in the final ten minutes of the game. In the next round PSV will meet Tottenham Hotspur who eliminated Slavia Prague over two legs with PSV playing their first game on the road in England.

PSV started the match in a 4-5-1 formation which was proven most successful a week earlier when PSV booked a 2-0 home win over Helsingsborg in the first leg. The hosts knew a very eager start of the game but where both Larsson and Omotoyossi showed to be very capable in scoring in the group phase, both strikers knew a very tough night with only Larsson firing dangerously on goal once. With also PSV not very eager to make the play the first half resulted in a very poor performance of both teams with Helsingsborg clearly unable to make a fist against PSV.

Early in the second half PSV opened the score with Bakkal netting the ball behind Andersson to put the game in a lock where the hosts needed four goals to progress to the next round. Twenty minutes later a rush from Afelley through the center of the midfield allowed Lazovic to double the lead for PSV with the visitors replacing three key players with Afellay, Lazovic and Dzsudzsak being rested for the weekend game against De Graafschap in the Dutch competition. With Helsingsborg looking to remove the zero from the score board Castan finally managed to put the ball behind Gomes nine minutes from time with the hosts suffering a 1-2 defeat.

PSV progressed into the next round which will be played on March 6th and PSV will start with a game on the road to Tottenham Hotspur. PSV did not play a very good game and with team manager Vergoossen fielding a 4-5-1 formation the team was mainly concentrating on avoiding to concede more than once in which PSV easily succeeded. Helsingsborg will continue with their preparations on the Allsvenskan which will start in March with the team making a very poor impression over the last two games compared to their good form in the first phase of the UEFA Cup.