VVV Venlo 1-1 NAC
Heerenveen 3-0 Den Haag
PSV 1-0 Vitesse
Roda 1-2 Twente
Groningen 0-1 AZ
Ajax 5-1 Feyenoord
Waalwijk 0-1 Willem II
Heracles 3-1 Utrecht
Sparta 2-0 NEC
Feyenoord were blown away by Ajax on Sunday at the Amsterdam ArenA in the most one-sided Classic for many a year. Ajax were all over their big rivals from the off and the only surprise was that it took until three minutes before the break for them to go ahead. Demy de Zeeuw was the unlikely source of the opener, making good ground to a looping ball which he stuck through the legs of Rob van Dijk. A minute later, Feyenoord were down to ten as Stefan Babovic smacked Jan Vertonghen across the nose with his elbow, the only controversy being that Luis Suarez got away with a similar challenge on Babovic moments earlier. With the man advantage, Ajax cut loose. Urby Emanuelson scored a stunner from a tight angle just after the break, and Gregory van der Wiel's great run and one-two with Marko Pantelic made it three. Denny Landzaat's delicate chip pulled one back, but De Zeeuw's second restored the advantage. Feyenoord finished with nine, van Dijk sent off in the last minute for pulling down Suarez and the Uruguayan sank the penalty. Ajax remain third, but with a gap growing back to Feyenoord who stay fourth.
The top two remain unchanged after both scored single-goal victories on Saturday. PSV weren't at their rampaging best against Vitesse and it was Balazs Dzsudzsak who pounced on a defensive error to settle the match. Twente were cruising at half-time in Kerkrade as Bryan Ruiz and Miroslav Stoch gave them a two-goal lead. Ruiz finished from a tight angle while Stoch needed a deflection to loop the ball over the keeper and in. Some rare lax defending allowed Jeanvion Yulu-Matondo to pull one back early in the second half, but the Tukkers held off a determined Roda side to remain top by two points.
Heracles dragged themselves close to Utrecht by beating them in Almelo after coming from behind. Michael Silberbauer put Utrecht ahead with a free header at the back post from a free-kick, but Heracles turned round ahead thanks to Willy Overtoom who finished from 20 yards after some lovely build-up play and Everton who headed home from point blank range. More silky build-up led to the third and decisive goal, nice little triangles up the left, put in by Darl Douglas as Utrecht failed to clear. AZ left it late to beat Groningen, Jeremain Lens eventually giving the champions the win with a free header five minutes from time. NAC held out for a point in the Friday game despite going down to nine men against VVV. Robbert Schilder was off for a second yellow as early as the 18th minute and Frank van Kouwen gave VVV the half-time lead. Leonardo squared it up for European hopefuls NAC, but they were forced to cling on at the end after Tim Gilissen saw red seven minutes from the end. Sparta's great run continues and they now look in decent order. Erik Falkenburg is in good form and was involved in both goals. He scored the first just before the break, some comic attempts at clearances landing the ball at his feet 12 yards out and he slammed it home. On the hour, another Falkenburg shot took an almighty deflection off Ramon Zomer to the degree that it needs to go down as an own goal. Only a charlatan would claim it as Falkenburg's.
Waalwijk. Another week, another defeat. This time to Willem II, the only goal coming from Christophe Gregoire who initially had his penalty saved, but the rebound fell kindly and he made no mistake at the second attempt. RKC finished with ten after Benjamin de Cuellar was sent off for an ugly, two-footed challenge. Heerenveen pull themselves out of the bottom three with a rousing 3-0 win over ten-man Den Haag. Roy Beerens put the Friesians ahead on 20 minutes and ADO were reduced a man just on the stroke of half-time, Pascal Bosschaart picking up a second yellow. Michal Papadopoulos bagged two after the break to seal the win.
No comments:
Post a Comment