Sparta 2-3 PSV
AZ 2-0 VVV Venlo
Heerenveen 3-1 Waalwijk
Heracles 3-2 Roda
Willem II 1-3 Twente
Den Haag 0-2 Feyenoord
Vitesse 1-5 Ajax
Groningen 2-2 NEC
Utrecht 3-1 NAC
Another five goals for Ajax this week takes them to fifty for the season so far. Yes, fifty. Five-oh, blind fifty. In fifteen games. And yet they still remain six points off the lead of the Eredivisie. Vitesse were the victims this time and they committed a cardinal sin to prompt the onslaught - they went ahead early, Dalibor Stevanovic prodding home after a real to-do in the Ajax box. The lead lasted barely ten minutes when Marko Pantelic started his genuine hat-trick. The third was a great run onto a lovely weighted ball over the top followed by an authoritative finish. He's really settled in now and is producing. Kennedy Bakircioglu got the fourth, teed up by an unselfish Luis Suarez whose absence from the scoresheet was the most remarkable thing. Ismail Aissati curled in a beauty for the fifth to complete another rout.
PSV and Twente are both still unbeaten and the Eindhoveners were briefly top of the league on Friday after a come-from-behind win over Sparta. Danko Lazovic put PSV ahead early on, but two Rydell Poepon goals put Sparta ahead ten minutes into the second half. Jonathan Reis equalised and Balazs Dzsudzsak fired in the winner with quarter of an hour to go. Their time at the top came to an end when Twente despatched Willem II in customary style. Wout Brama lashed in the opener from distance before Christophe Gregoire levelled it up from the penalty spot, Douglas with the clumsy challenge. It was brief resistance as Twente reasserted the dominance they showed almost throughout. The Tilburg goal frame got a pounding, Miroslav Stoch and Douglas both rattling the bar before Stoch found the back of the net from a tight angle. Bryan Ruiz made it safe after the break, waltzing through the defence and firing across goal inside the far post.
Waalwijk couldn't force a third win, going down at Heerenveen for whom Viktor Elm scored twice and missed a penalty. Roda and Den Haag drop into the bottom three after defeats, Roda's comeback against Heracles being defeated by the clock. They were three down with quarter of an hour to go, but Mads Junker pulled one back on 82 minutes and Pa-Modou Kah another six minutes later, but the European hopefuls from Almelo hung on. Den Haag went down to Feyenoord, Ron Vlaar's thumping header putting the Rotterdammers on their way. There was a point apiece for NEC and Groningen, Nicklas Pedersen's last-minute strike snatching a point for the northerners. Bipolar VVV went down this week at the Almaarderhout, Jeremain Lens and Brett Holman putting the champions into a comfortable lead. VVV finished with ten, Sjors Verdellen sent off late on. Finally, Utrecht saw off NAC 3-1, all the goals coming after the break, Jacob Mulenga with a decisive late third for Utreg.
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