Ajax Overcame An Early Setback Against Nac Breda to Maintain Their Nine-Point Lead about PSV with Just Six Matches Left in the Eredivisie Season.
The Amsterdammers Went behind in the ninth minute In The Johan Cruyff Area When Leo Sauer Cut in from the Left and Hit A Diagonal Shot Fits Mateus.
Kenneth Taylor equalized from the Penalty Spot After Nac Goalkeeper Roy Kortsmit Clumsily Pulled Down Don-Angelo Konadu, and Three Minutes later Steven Berghuis Put Ajax Ahead Taylor Created Space In The Penalty Area.
The match was settled in the 76th minute when Taylor’s Short Cross was Turned in At The Near Post by Belgian Teenager Jorthy Mokio for his First Ajax goal.
PSV Won by the Same Scoreline in GroningenWith Malik Tillman Firing in the First Goal From the Edge of the Penalty Area After 11 minutes in His First Appearance Since Suffering Ankle Injury in January.
Ivan Perisic Added A Second With A Flashing Header, Before Dave Kwakman Put The Match Back In The Balance Before Half-Time With A Curling Shot Past Walter Benitez.
Substitute Johan Bakayoko Secured the Points with a header in the 88th minute, after Luuk de Jong had a goal disallowed for offside.
AZ Fall Back
Feyenoord Kept Up the Pressure on PSV With A Hard-Fought Win at AZ That more or less put paid to the alkmaar side’s hopes of a top-hot finish. The Home Side Were Sharper in Front of Goal, With Troy Parrott Spurning Three Good Chances, But A Looping Header by Zico Buurmeester about His Own goalkeeper Proved Decisive and Left AZ 10 Points Behind Their Rivals in Fifth Place.
Utrecht Went Two Goals Down at Go Ahead Eagles, with Finnish Winger Oliver Antman Playing a Big Role by Setting Up Victor Edvardsen and Then Mathis Suray. But Utrecht Were Level by Half-Time As Jari De Busser Misjudged Yoanne Cathline’s Speculative Shot, Before Miguel Rodriguez Tapped in from Close Range.
Bottom Two Draw
The Two Clubs Propping Up the Table, Almere City and RKC Waalwijk, Both Drew to Close the Gap On Free-Falling Willem II to Five Points.
RKC Were Unable to Find the Net Against HeraclesWhile Almere Scored Twice in Four Second-Half Minutes To Come Back From 2-0 Down at PEC ZwolleWho came within centimetres or snatching all three points when Anselmo MacNulty’s Late header sailed just wide.
Willem II Have Tasks Just One Point from Their Last Nine Matches After Going Down 3-1 at Heerenveenas goals from ion nicolaescu, sam kersten and ilias sebaoui secured a first win for coach Robin Veldman following the departure of Robin van Persie.
Heerenveen Moved Into the Last European Play-Off Spot at the Expense of Fortuna Sittard, WHO RESCUED A POINT in Enschede with a header by rodrigo guth, while sparta stayed in the hunt with A 2-0 Win Against NEC That lifted them above their opponents into 12th place.
Results
Friday
Heerenveen 3-1 Willem II Tilburg
Saturday
AZ Alkmaar 0-1 Feyenoord
Groningen 1-3 PSV Eindhoven
PEC Zwolle 2-2 Almere City
Twente Enschede 1-1 Fortuna Sittard
Sunday
Ajax 3-1 NAC Breda
Go Ahead Eagles 2-2 Utrecht
RKC Waalwijk 0-0 Heracles Almelo
Sparta Rotterdam 2-0 NEC Nijmegen
