Eredivisie Round 17 Results: PSV, Ajax and Feyenoord record victories as table topper AZ falls

The Alkmaar side was beaten by NAC on Sunday, while all it title rivals except Twente bagged the full three points.

Dec 18, 2011 1:20:00 PM

By Stefan Coerts

More On :  Ajax, Alkmaar, De Graafschap, Den Haag, Excelsior Rotterdam, Feyenoord, Groningen, Heerenveen, Heracles Almelo, NAC, NEC, PSV, Roda, Twente, Utrecht, Vitesse, VVV-Venlo, Waalwijk

 
Eredivisie: Round 17 Results

Table/Fixtures

Friday DECEMBER 16
Sunday DECEMBER 18
  
De Graafschap - RKC
 1-3 Ajax - ADO Den Haag
 4-0
Saturday DECEMBER 17
 Feyenoord - Twente
 3-2
Heracles - Vitesse 0-1 NAC - AZ
 2-1
Roda - Excelsior
 7-0 Heerenveen - PSV
 1-5
NEC - VVV
 2-0

Groningen - Utrecht
 1-0  
  





De Graafschap
 1-3
 RKC
The home side started the match with attacking intentions and was rewarded with the opener after 16 minutes of play. RKC goalkeeper Jeroen Zoet failed to hold on to Nenad Sreckovic's shot and Michael de Leeuw tapped home the rebound from close range.

RKC wasn't impressed too much though and equalized in the closing stages of the first half when Frank van Mosselveld headed home a free kick.

The away side even grabbed the lead after the interval when Ard van Peppen found the net after being set up by Mitchell Schet, before Jochem Jansen beat his own goalkeeper in the 87th minute to make it three for the away side.

Heracles
 0-1
 Vitesse
Heracles dominated play on Saturday evening and created a number of chances to open the scoring. Nevertheless, the team was unable to beat Vitesse shot stopper Piet Velthuizen, and was made to pay for it after the break.

Jan-Arie van der Heijden found Guram Kashia with a pinpoint corner kick and the Georgian defender beat his opponent to the ball before heading the winner past the helpless Heracles goalkeeper.
Roda
 7-0
 Excelsior
Roda was determined to pick up the full three points after last week's loss against VVV and got the early opener it was after when Jagos Vukovic added his name to the score sheet in the fifth minute after good work from Mads Junker.

Davy De Beule made things even worse for Excelsior at the half-hour mark, before Ruud Vormer made it three in the closing stages of the opening 45 minutes.

Excelsior then managed to keep the Roda attack quiet for quite a while, but Arnaud Sutchuin poured even more salt in the Rotterdam side's wounds in the 78th minute.

Mitchell Donald netted Roda's fifth of the evening shortly after, before again Sutchuin and finally Mikolaj Lebedynski made it seven for the Limburgers.
NEC
 2-0
 VVV

NEC was the better side of the two early on and deservedly opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Attacking midfielder John Goossens stepped up to take a free kick and surprised the VVV glovesman with a superb long range strike.

The home side was then reduced to 10 men when Bram Nuytinck received his marching orders shortly after the break after a professional foul.

Nevertheless, NEC continued to dominate and Goossens put the match to bed in the 78th minute with a powerful free kick.
Groningen
 1-0
 Utrecht

Groningen created numerous chances to open the scoring before the break, but Petter Andersson, Dusan Tadic and David Texeira all failed to find the net in the opening 45 minutes.

The club kept on dominating though and was eventually rewarded for the positive attitude when Texeira broke the deadlock at the hour mark to with a calm finish to help Groningen to the full three points.
Ajax
 4-0
 ADO Den Haag
ADO Den Haag was dealt a huge blow when Ramon Leeuwin was shown a red card after only 10 minutes of play following a reckless challenge in midfield on Christian Eriksen.

Eriksen gifted Ajax the lead shortly after when he found the net with a superb shot after being set up by Nicolas Lodeiro.

Ajax continued to dominate after the interval and Theo Janssen doubled the Amsterdam side's lead with a low shot in the far corner.

Eriksen then set up Dmitry Bulykin for the 3-0, before the towering attacker provided the assist for Ajax's fourth via Miralem Sulejmani in the 85th minute.
Feyenoord
 3-2
 Twente
Feyenoord started the match with attacking intentions and went 1-0 up after only seven minutes. Otman Bakkal found John Guidetti with a low cross from the right and the Manchester City loanee tapped home from inside the area.

The young Swede caused the Twente defense all kinds of trouble and Guidetti got his second goal of the afternoon in the 43rd minute after a superb counterattack, before once more Guidetti made it three hardly one minute later.

Twente then fought back after the break and Nacer Chadli pegged one back after the Feyenoord back line failed to clear a corner kick.

Luuk de Jong even made it 3-2 after a good individual action, but Twente was unable to net a third and left De Kuip empty handed.
NAC
 2-1
 AZ
AZ started the match the better side of the two and came close to opening the scoring via Rasmus Elm, only to see the Swede's powerful shot come back off the upright.

Sloppy defending from Etienne Reijnen then allowed Anthony Lurling to break the deadlock and the veteran didn't fail from close range. Nevertheless, Brett Holman equalized before the halftime whistle to help AZ back in the game.

AZ got a number of chances to grab the lead in the second half, but NAC goalkeeper Jelle ten Rouwelaar proved to be too much of an obstacle, and Milano Koenders eventually helped the home side to the full three points with a late strike after more sloppy defending from AZ.
Heerenveen
 1-5
 PSV
Heerenveen was somewhat surprisingly unable to trouble PSV as the visiting side needed only 18 minutes to break the deadlock. Zakaria Labyad sent in a superb cross from the right and Ola Toivonen headed home from five yards out.

A similar attack two minutes later resulted in the 2-0 as Stanislav Manolev found Tim Matavz with an excellent cross and the Slovenia international found the net with a superb header in the far corner.

Toivonen made it three in the 24th minute with a calm finish after a good combination with Matavz.

Georginio Wijnaldum then made it four with a good header after a cross from Dries Mertens, before Marcelo headed home a corner kick to pour even more misery on Heerenveen.

The Friezen pegged one back via substitute Rajiv van La Parra late in the second half, but it was nothing more than a consolation goal.

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