PSV started life as 27-time Eredivisie champions with a surprising name in the starting XI - 18-year-old Belgian talent Noah Fernandez was given the reins in midfield as Joey Veerman missed Saturday's game against Sparta Rotterdam with an injury.
After Sparta got a handful of early chances, PSV took over and started peppering Joël Drommel's goal. Ricardo Pepi, Paul Wanner, Ivan Perisic, and Ismael Saibari all tried but failed in their attempts to open the scoring.
Pepi still put the opener on the board in the first minute of added time, expertly heading in a cross from Guus Til to give the visitors the lead on the brink of halftime.
PSV took a big step back after the break and came agonisingly close to conceding the equaliser when Joshua Kitolano couldn't properly fire the ball at goal and instead tapped it at Matej Kovar with Sparta's biggest chance of the game.
Without convincing, PSV doubled the lead late in the second half via in-form midfielder Ismael Saibari, who put the final score of 2-0 up on the scoreboard at Het Kasteel.