Vitesse 2-0 Sparta
Den Haag 1-1 Groningen
Willem II 1-1 NEC
AZ 1-0 NAC
Feyenoord 3-0 Waalwijk
Roda 2-2 Ajax
Heracles 1-3 Twente
Utrecht 0-0 PSV
Heerenveen 1-1 VVV Venlo
Draws for Ajax and PSV gave Twente the chance to forge ahead on their own with a win over local rivals Heracles. The Almelo side gave Steve McClaren's men a mighty scare when Everton put Heracles ahead after just nine minutes. Bryan Ruiz levelled after half an hour and the second half belonged to Twente and two goals in two minutes - from Blaise N'Kufo and Kenneth Perez - sealed the win that sent Twente clear. PSV were disappointing against Utrecht and a fairly miserable 0-0 was only marked by the late dismissal of Balazs Dzsudzsak. Ajax also finished with ten men, Urby Emanuelson sent off late on as they came from behind to draw with Roda. Luis Suarez's penalty put Ajax in front, but Arnaud Djum levelled within a minute and Boldiszar Bodor gave the Limburgers the lead ten minutes into the second half. Suarez squared it off again before Emanuelson's indiscretion. Feyenoord were winners again, easily seeing off bottom club Waalwijk. Andwele Slory gave the Rotterdammers a half time lead and an own goal from Tony Varela made it two before Gerogino Wijnaldum wrapped it up late on. AZ got back to winning ways with an inconvincing display at home to NAC. Jeremain Lens got the winner for Ronald Koeman's side - a side low on confidence at the moment.
That leaves the top six with a bit of a buffer back to the next nine clubs, with only Waalwijk adrift and draws were the order of the day. Den Haag needed an own goal from Groningen's Gibril Sankoh to snatch a point after Niclas Pedersen had put the visitors ahead and NEC wasted a lead in Tilburg, Erton Fejzullahu giving the Nijmegen side the lead before Said Boutahar's equaliser. Sandro Calabro gave VVV an 88th minute lead away to Heerenveen, but Michal Papadopoulos equalised in stoppage time to share the spoils. Vitesse managed a win which sent them soaring up the table, Lasse Nilsson and a late one from Wijlan Pluim enough to see off Sparta and lift Vitesse into seventh.
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