Eredivisie matchday 10: Feyenoord hold on at PSV, Ajax win at Sparta, Twente beat AZ

Feyenoord drew 1–1 at PSV on Sunday and are still three points clear at the top, and still the only unbeaten side in the Eredivisie. Ajax won 2–1 at Sparta Rotterdam to move up to second, and on Sunday night Twente won 2–0 at AZ with two late goals, so PSV, Twente and AZ are now level on 20 points, a point behind Ajax. Cambuur won 6–1 at Willem II, who are bottom with two points and no win in ten. Matchday 10 brought 31 goals in nine matches: two home wins, four away wins and three draws.

Friday

GO Ahead Eagles 3–2 Telstar was 2–0 at half-time, both goals from Søren Tengstedt: on 7 from Oskar Siira Sivertsen's pass and on 33 from Mathis Suray's. Tyrone Owusu pulled one back for Telstar on 48, Evert Linthorst restored the two-goal lead on 67 from Tomas Galvez's pass, and Sem Valk scored a second for Telstar on 90+2, from Patrick Brouwer's. Tengstedt now has eight league goals, two more than anyone else. GO Ahead Eagles had seven shots on target to three.

Saturday

Utrecht 1–1 PEC Zwolle was level until the last 20 minutes. Elias Sörensen, on at half-time, put PEC Zwolle ahead on 72 from Thijs Oosting's pass, and S. van Duijn, a substitute too, equalised for Utrecht on 90+1. Utrecht had 60 per cent of the ball and 23 shots, five of them on target.

Willem II 1–6 Cambuur was 3–0 inside 18 minutes. Nicolas Binder scored on 9 and Ilyes Hamache on 13, both from Morgan Costarelli's passes, and Ismaël Baouf made it three on 18 from Rafik El Arguioui's, the goal confirmed by VAR. Binder added the fourth on 58 from Hamache's pass and El Arguioui the fifth on 62. Anass Zarrouk scored for Willem II on 82 from Devin Haen's pass, and Jason Ceka completed the scoring on 89. Cambuur had eleven shots on target; Willem II had two, and 13 corners. It was the first match back on the Willem II bench for Adrie Koster, 71, after more than five years, standing in for John Stegeman, who was sacked on Tuesday, and the first time Cambuur had scored six in an Eredivisie match, NOS reports.

ADO Den Haag 2–3 Heerenveen went to Heerenveen with two goals from Jacob Trenskow, on 24 and 66, both from Maxence Rivera's passes, and one from Ringo Meerveld on 51. Nigel Thomas, on as a substitute on 56, scored twice for ADO Den Haag, on 57 and 72, the second from Evan Rottier's pass. ADO had 22 shots to 16.

Sunday

Fortuna Sittard 1–0 Excelsior was settled in stoppage time: Rodrigo Guth scored on 90+1 from a pass by Mohammed Ihattaren, who had come on in the 82nd minute. Fortuna Sittard are sixth; Excelsior have now lost four of their last five.

NEC 2–2 Groningen was 0–2 at half-time after two goals from Brynjólfur Darri Willumsson, on 11 from Marco Rente's pass and on 34 from Thom van Bergen's. NEC came back after the break: Clement Bischoff scored on 57 from Darko Nejašmić's pass, a goal confirmed by VAR, and Noe Lebreton equalised on 71. NEC had 22 shots and 11 corners; Groningen's goalkeeper made six saves. It was NEC's fifth draw of the season.

PSV 1–1 Feyenoord opened with Guus Til's goal on 21, from Lutsharel Geertruida's pass. Anis Hadj Moussa equalised for Feyenoord on 54 from Luciano Valente's. Feyenoord had eight shots on target to PSV's six, and both goalkeepers made six saves. PSV were without the suspended Sven Mijnans and the injured Ricardo Pepi, NOS reports, and Peter Bosz said afterwards: "We were much better."

Sparta Rotterdam 1–2 Ajax was decided before half-time. Abdellah Ouazane put Ajax ahead on 22 from Julian Brandt's pass, Jens Toornstra equalised for Sparta on 43, and Tolu Arokodare, also from Brandt, scored the winner on 45+1. Ajax had 59 per cent of the ball, but their coach, Míchel, told NOS that "Sparta deserved more". Toornstra's goal came in his 500th Eredivisie match.

AZ 0–2 Twente stayed goalless until six minutes from time. Sondre Holmlund Orjasaeter scored on 84 from Younes Taha El Idrissi's pass. Twente's Daouda Weidmann was sent off on 88, but Lucas Vennegoor of Hesselink, on as a substitute, added the second on 90+3 from Joel Drommel's pass, his first Eredivisie goal, NOS reports. Weidmann had been booked on 50, and Voetbal International reports that the red card was for a second booking. For AZ, Wesley Hoedt played his first Eredivisie match since May 2015.

The table after matchday 10

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Feyenoord	10	7	3	0	+21	24
2	Ajax	10	6	3	1	+16	21
3	PSV Eindhoven	10	6	2	2	+15	20
4	Twente	10	6	2	2	+9	20
5	AZ Alkmaar	10	6	2	2	+8	20
6	Fortuna Sittard	10	5	3	2	0	18
7	Heerenveen	10	4	3	3	+5	15
8	Groningen	10	4	3	3	+3	15
9	GO Ahead Eagles	10	3	5	2	0	14
10	Cambuur	10	3	3	4	−3	12
11	Utrecht	10	3	3	4	−10	12
12	NEC Nijmegen	10	2	5	3	−1	11
13	Excelsior	10	3	2	5	−3	11
14	Sparta Rotterdam	10	2	3	5	−7	9
15	PEC Zwolle	10	2	2	6	−12	8
16	Telstar	10	1	3	6	−9	6
17	ADO Den Haag	10	1	3	6	−10	6
18	Willem II	10	0	2	8	−22	2

Feyenoord lead on 24, three ahead of Ajax; PSV, Twente and AZ are a point further back on 20, separated only by goal difference. The points race shows how the picture has turned: of these five, AZ led after matchday 7, two points ahead of Feyenoord, and three rounds later they are four behind them. At the bottom, Willem II are four points behind Telstar and ADO.

Numbers to know

• Tengstedt leads the scorers with eight; Trenskow, Zonneveld, Nacho Ferri, Brandt, Willumsson and Van Bergen have six each.
• Feyenoord have scored 32 goals, the most, and Twente have conceded ten, the fewest.
• Willem II have conceded 32 goals in ten matches and lost their last five.
• Seven of the round's 31 goals came from the 81st minute on, four of them in stoppage time at the end of a match.
• Willem II are the only side without a win; Feyenoord the only side without a defeat.

Next up

Matchday 11 opens on Saturday 31 October with Feyenoord v Fortuna Sittard at 15:30 UTC; Ajax v AZ follows at 20:00 UTC, alongside Cambuur v GO Ahead Eagles. On Sunday 1 November, Excelsior host Twente at 13:30 UTC, and Groningen v Sparta Rotterdam closes the round at 15:45 UTC. The full round is on the Eredivisie page.

Sources for the context: NOS, NOS, NOS, NOS, Voetbal International, Voetbal International.