Meet the surprise best team in Europe! Led by ex-Premier League misfits from Newcastle, Chelsea, and Southampton, this club have won ALL 12 of their league games this season and have only lost once domestically in 2023!

Twelve wins from 12, 45 goals scored, five conceded. Welcomed to the impeccable existence of PSV, top of the Eredivisie tree under the guidance Peter Bosz. 

Life is usually good for the Eindhoven outfit, but they're rarely this destructive. They've only lost one domestic match in 2023 and their most common scoreline this campaign is 4-0. 

You have to scroll down to San Marino and Gibraltar to find the only other two European leagues where a side has won every single game. No other top-tier teams boast the same perfection. 

Anyone who saw Arsenal dismantle PSV 4-0 at the Emirates in September would be forgiven for thinking they are Champions League cannon fodder, but their December rematch at the Philips Stadion is a chance to turn the tables. 

Since that humbling in north London, they've risen to second in their Champions League group and will fancy themselves to shock Europe. 

But with a 33-year-old former Newcastle flop leading the line, how on earth have they done this?  

Bosz took over in July on the back of a good year under Ruud van Nistelrooy. The former Man United striker had delivered a KNVB Cup and Johan Cruyff Shield in his only season at the helm while pushing Feyenoord for the Eredivisie title.

However, Van Nistelrooy had a strained relationship with the players and the fans craved something more. Something to believe in, a philosophy to back. 

When Van Nistelrooy resigned, the club knew they had to replace his direct, abrasive approach with something altogether more glamorous. 

Step forward Bosz with his attractive, marketable style. No Eredivisie side has had more shots, no team has had more possession, and no team has won the ball more times in the final third. Try complaining about that. 

Their manager has done the rounds in European football, managing ten teams in four nations. He has taken the reins of Ajax, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, and Lyon in his most recent jobs, taking Ajax to the Europa League final in 2016-17, where they lost to Manchester United but won the hearts of Europe. 

The evidence is there - Bosz can transform teams. And it's just as well, because on paper this is hardly a world-beating outfit.

Luuk de Jong leads the line with 17 goals - as many as Erling Haaland - rekindling an old romance with the club to rediscover his best form. 

He has never quite made the grade outside the Dutch top flight - a 12-game spell at Newcastle produced no goals and he didn't set the world alight with Sevilla and Barcelona.

Yet now he is closing in on Johan Cruyff in the all-time Eredivisie scorer rankings as just seven more goals would take him past the Dutch legend to sixth in the history books. 

Also in the twilight of his career, Chelsea academy graduate and ex-Crystal Palace regular Patrick van Aanholt has been pulling the strings from left-back. He's targeting the first league medal of his career. 

Young Southampton centre-back Armel Bella-Kotchap, who featured in most of their Premier League games last season, has been struggling to get minutes on loan. The competition is strong. 

This is a team packed with talent. Over the summer they brought in Netherlands international Noa Lang, a long-term Arsenal target, from Club Brugge. USA star Ricardo Pepi also came through the door, as did Hirving Lozano, who won Serie A with Napoli, and Sergino Dest on loan from Barcelona. 

Twenty-year-old Johan Bakayoko is being chased by Liverpool, Tottenham, and Newcastle. Burnley had a club-record £17million offer for him rejected in the summer. 

Between the sticks is Walter Benitez, who had a distinguished Ligue 1 career with Nice.

It remains to be seen how far this PSV side can go, but Ajax have proven with their recent Europa League and Champions League exploits that the ceiling is high for Dutch clubs.