Manchester City and Atletico Madrid joined the pot for the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw after seeing out their ties on Tuesday night.
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Diego Simeone’s men had to settle for a 0-0 draw in Eindhoven in the first leg as goalkeeper Zoet shone for the Eredivisie side and the 25-year-old was once more in superb form in the return.
It took 16 kicks to finally produce a victor with Luciano Narsingh hitting the crossbar with PSV’s eighth effort before Juanfran coolly delivered for his side. Juanfran converted Atletico’s penalty and sent his teammates into a frenzy and his club into the quarterfinals, ending PSV’s dreamy run.
The Spanish side, runners-up in 2014, had home advantage in Tuesday’s second leg after drawing in the Netherlands but were kept in check by a disciplined defensive display from the Dutch champions.
Zoet denied Griezmann again when he beat away the Atletico forward’s goal-bound header from point-blank range in a first half of few chances.
Extra time was needed, and then penalties to decide the outcome of the Atletico Madrid – PSV Eindhoven match, which the Spaniards won eight-seven. Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres was also on target in the shoot-out.
PSV will be looking to avenge two group stage defeats by Atletico in the 2008/09 season in their only previous encounters in the competition.
PSV Possible XI – Jeroen Zoet; Santiago Arias, Jeffrey Bruma, Hector Moreno, Jetro Willems; Marco van Ginkel, Davy Propper, Andres Guardado; Luciano Narsingh, Jurgen Locadia, Luuk de Jong. Using the defender Juanfran as a shield, he shaped a shot goalward and Jan Oblak, partially unsighted and diving to his left, reacted superbly to an awkward bounce to jab the ball against the post with the inside of his wrist. And Phillip Cocu’s PSV, back at this stage for the first time in nine years, was superbly dogged and well-organized, thwarting the great thwarters. “With spaces they work very well and have players that arrive late into the box”.
Simeone responded to the game becoming more open by taking off Carrasco for Matias Kranevitter, while the game’s first substitute, Torres, chipped Zoet only to see the ball land on the roof of the net.
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Atletico have scored three times in each of their last three domestic outings, but only once now across their last six European knock-out games.
