Eredivisie 2025-2026 season Ratings and comments

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Full time stats:

 

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This could be a tough match, especially given the high speed game Feyenoord played on thursday against Aston Villa,
which was energy draining.

 

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NEC's mission to take spot 4 was alive till the 90+4th minute, when the red card for defender Sandler was cashed in by GAE with a goal.

 

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VI's Team of the Week matchday 8:

 

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Summary of this weekend's matches:
Ueda bags double as Feyenoord hold nerve to keep Eredivisie lead
October 5, 2025

Ayase Ueda scores Feyenoord's late winner with an improvised shot. Photo: ANP/Maurice van Steen

Feyenoord held on to their three-point lead in the Eredivisie after a nerve-shredding victory over Utrecht.

Ayase Ueda opened the scoring after 20 minutes of a first half dominated by Feyenoord when he rounded Vasilis Barkas and stroked the ball into the empty net.

Gjivai Zechiël, on loan from the Rotterdam club, equalised for Utrecht at the start of the second half, but Sem Steijn quickly restored the lead from close range and shortly afterwards missed a glorious chance for 3-1.


Derry Murkin brought Utrecht level again with eight minutes left to play, but Ueda proved to be the matchwinner in the 88th minute when he looped the ball over Barkas from a prone position for his eighth league goal of the season.

PSV cruised to a 4-0 win at PEC Zwolle, with Dennis Man scoring his first Eredivisie goal as part of a makeshift front line with Guus Til and Couhaib Driouech. Ismail Saibari, Joey Veerman and substitute Ryan Flamingo were also on the scoresheet.

Ajax scraped a point at Sparta Rotterdam with a 97th-minute equaliser from substitute Oscar Gloukh, who was dropped from the starting line-up after the 4-0 midweek defeat at Marseille.

Ajax were 3-1 down after 55 minutes as Mitchell van Bergen and Joshua Kitolano took advantage of huge gaps in the visitors’ defence. Wout Weghorst launched the fightback with a cultured right-foot shot in the 73rd minute, before Gloukh salvaged Ajax’s unbeaten record with a shimmy and shot in injury time.

Groningen win again
Groningen kept up their bright start to the season with a 2-1 win at NAC, thanks to a first goal by Breda-born Tika de Jonge and a dribble and shot by Thom van Bergen, set up by goalkeeper Etienne Vaessen.

Heerenveen moved out of the bottom three with an astonishing late comeback at home to Excelsior, who took an 11th-minute lead through Irakli Yegoian and missed a sackful of chances to add to the score.


Dylan Vente equalised with an 89th-minute penalty after Adam Carlén hauled down Luuk Brouwers, and four minutes into injury time Sam Kester rubbed salt into the wound with a thunderbolt from 30 metres.

Twente revival
Twente continued their recovery under John van den Brom with a late comeback against local rivals Heracles, who went ahead through a header from a corner by defender Ivan Mesik.

Max Bruns equalised with a similar goal 10 minutes from time before Thomas van de Belt bagged what proved to be the winner with a shot from outside the penalty area. Twente had to fend off a late offensive by Heracles after defender Bart van Rooij was shown a red card two minutes from the end.

AZ, still reeling from their 4-0 midweek defeat in Cyprus at AEK Larnaca, edged past Telstar with a penalty by Mexx Meerdinck and a first goal for the club for winger Matej Sin, who tapped in at the second time of asking after his chip over goalkeeper Ronald Koeman came back off the post.

Go Ahead Eagles snatched a point against NEC in injury time when Gerrit Nauber headed in from a corner. The Eagles had gone behind in the first half when a header by Koki Ogawa came back off the post and hit the back of the luckless Jari de Busser.

Fortuna Sittard kept up their unbeaten home record as Justin Lonwijk, standing in for the injured Mo Ihattaren, smashed in a low cross by Dimitros Limnios for the only goal against Volendam.

Results

Friday

NAC Breda 1-2 Groningen

Saturday

Fortuna Sittard 1-0 Volendam

Heerenveen 2-1 Excelsior

PEC Zwolle 0-4 PSV Eindhoven

Sparta Rotterdam 3-3 Ajax

Sunday

AZ Alkmaar 2-1 Telstar

Feyenoord 3-2 Utrecht

Go Ahead Eagles 1-1 NEC Nijmegen

Twente Enschede 2-1 Heracles Almelo

 

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According to Heitinga Itakura managed 75% of the training, but it remains to be seen how his body reacts to that.
If he's not part of the team against AZ, that's a major let down defensively for Ajax.
AZ has lost Meerdink for a long time, but it seems Parrot is back.

 

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Ajax won't have Kasper Dolberg, Youri Regeer and Owen Wijndal at their disposal against AZ on Saturday evening. Coach John Heitinga announced this on Friday morning.
Ko Itakura is a doubtful case. 'We'll have to wait and see today,' said Heitinga at the press conference.

Saturday, 21.00 hrs: AJAX - AZ
- Referee: Manschot
- Ajax won 34 of the 47 home matches against AZ, who struck five times and remained unbeaten in the previous four editions.
Last season it was 2-2.
- In Alkmaar, AZ won 2x last season: 2-1 in the league and then in the eighth finals of the cup: 2-0.
- The unbeaten Ajax won all four home games, but no away game yet.
- At Ajax, Dolberg and Wijndal are missing and Itakura is still a doubt. AZ misses Clasie, Meerdink and Maikuma.

 

Saturday, 6.45 p.m.: PSV - GO AHEAD EAGLES
- Referee: v.d.Eijk
- This game has been played 35 times before; PSV won 27 times (10-0 in 1973; 4 goals Van der Kuijlen) and 4 times GAE, most recently in 1968; 0-1; goal Oeki Hoekema. Last season it was 3-0.
- In August, PSV won the JC Shield: 2-1 against GAE, with Dest as the match winner.
- GAE won 2x against PSV last season: in Eindhoven for the cup (1-2) and shortly afterwards in Deventer: 3-2 (2x Antman).
- Boadu and Pepi return to PSV after injuries.

 

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In the run-up to the cracker against PSV, Go Ahead Eagles coach Melvin Boel said at a press conference that Edvardsen is not available on Saturday. Søren Tengstedt is still not back either.

In recent days, Boel has been able to prepare his team optimally for the duel against PSV. 'I think it was good to have time off,' he said, referring to the interland period, in which Go Ahead did train. 'Then you can process everything you have experienced in a short time and in our busy schedule these moments of rest are sometimes quite nice.'

 

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full time (second half 90 + 6 minutes) stats:

 

79' Dennis Man is replaced by Esmir Bajraktarevic

 

First half stats:

 

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Full time:

 

Four of the top 5 teams are ridiculously leaking goals.

 

From the match live blog:
Youri Baas seemed to make it 1-2 for the home team shortly before time, but there was a line through the goal because Weghorst gave an elbow punch on the chest of Wouter Goes in the run-up to the goal. Weghorst could not complain when referee Jeroen Manschot showed a yellow card for it.

So the goal disallowed and saved by the ref from a red card ...