Eredivisie roundup: Feyenoord still in trouble

Sunday 05 October 2008

Feyenoord - NEC 0-2
The misery for Feyenoord seemed to have taken a turn on Thursday when they knocked Kalmar FF out of the UEFA Cup, but as it turns out that good match was only a little spark, not the start of a fire.

Today they lost to NEC Nijmegen coach by former Feyenoord hero Mario Been.

In the first half the Rotterdammers seemed able to continue down the path they entered Thursday, two second half goals of the visitors now see 100-year-old club on 14th spot with 4 points from 5 games.

With an international weekend coming up new coach Gertjan Verbeek will have two weeks to get his players ready for the next game, away to Willem II Tilburg.

0-1 49' Janssen
0-2 55' Ntibazonkiza

AZ Alkmaar - Sparta Rotterdam 6-0
AZ are on a cloud and as they did last week knocked their opponents down within half an hour. After the poor displays in the first two games, AZ now seem to be back on track with three wins in a row and impressive figures: 12 goals scored and 2 conceded.

"We played well," AZ coach Louis van Gaal said.

"But now we finish the chances we create. That is the difference with the first two matches."

1-0 01' El Hamdaoui
2-0 21' Dembélé
3-0 26' Swerts
4-0 28' Dembélé
5-0 58' El Hamdaoui
6-0 60' Moisander

FC Groningen - ADO Den Haag 3-0
FC Groningen remain leaders in the Eredivisie by a 3-0 victory over ADO Den Haag.

Groningen had a good start and went ahead after 11 minutes when Petter Andersson netted a Koen van de Laak cross.

What followed was a siege of the Den Haag penalty area and it seemed only a matter of time before FC Groningen would double the score.

They did in the 25th minute.

Sepp De Roover put a ball in the box where Evgeniy Levchenko headed it home

FC Groningen then remained the far better team, and only point of criticism was that they didn't score more goals.

Markus Berg added one in the 70th one, but the 3-0 end result was not a true expression of the difference in quality.

1-0 11' Petter Andersson
2-0 25' Levchenko
3-0 70' Marcus Berg


PSV - De Graafschap 3-0
PSV recovered well from the defeat in Liverpool this week by easily sweeping aside De Graafschap.

De Graafschap offered little or no resistance so even though PSV didn't play brilliantly they created lots of chances from which they scored three.

Comeback kids Danko Lazovic (2) and Ibrahim Afellay scored the goals that put PSV on second spot in the table.

1-0 15' Lazovic
2-0 47' Lazovic
3-0 79' Afellay

Volendam-NAC Breda 2-4
0-1 05' Kwakman
0-2 19' Amoah
1-2 52' Boots
1-3 66' Amoah
2-3 86' Tuyp
2-4 89' Lurling

FC Utrecht-FC Twente 3-0
1-0 08' Loval
2-0 50' Dickoh
3-0 90' De Jong

Vitesse Arnhem-Willem II Tilburg 2-2
0-1 15' Akgün
1-1 46' Van Wolfswinkel
2-1 56' Hofs
2-2 90' Demouge

Heracles Almelo - Roda JC 2-0
1-0 61' Overtoom
2-0 90' Schulmeister

Heerenveen - Ajax Amsterdam 5-2
1-0 04' Silva (o.g.)
2-0 08' Beerens
3-0 51' Sibon
4-0 63' Pranjic (pen)
4-1 79' Huntelaar
4-2 81' Suárez (pen)
5-2 90' Pranjic