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Top four win in Dutch Eredivisie

There were no surprises in the Dutch Eredivisie on Sunday, as all of the top-four teams won their games.

Leaders PSV hosted last-placed RKC Waalwijk in Eindhoven and earned a rather easy 5-1 victory.

Hungarian Balazs Dzsudzsak scored the opening goal for Fred Rutten’s side in the sixth minute, and Ibrahim Afellay made it 2-0 13 minutes later. After another three minutes, it was Danny Koevermans to add a third.

Nordin Amrabat went on to find the target five minutes before the end, and although Charlison Benschot pulled one back three minutes after the hour, Koevermans soon restored the advantage with his goal for 5-1 on 68 minutes.

FC Twente had a hard time against NEC but did end up taking three points. Luuk de Jong scored the opening goal in Twente’s favor after 13 minutes, but had his effort cancelled out by Bjorn Vleminckx in the 67th.

The winning goal came at five minutes from the end, and was scored by Costa Rican striker Bryan Ruiz, 2-1.

Third-placed Ajax received Utrecht at the Amsterdam Arena and the visitors went a man down after 33 minutes as Jan Wuytens was sent off.

Ajax first took advantage through Luis Suarez ten minutes later, and Gregory van der Wiel made it 2-0 six minutes after the hour. Further goals from Suarez and Danish winger Dennis Rommedahl set the score to 4-0.

Feyenoord gave away a 0-2 lead at Groningen but scored a late winner to leave Groningen with a 2-3 win.

No goals were scored in the first half at Euroborg stadium but Andrea Bahia (57th) and Jon Dahl Tomasson (80) gave Feyenoord a comfortable lead in the second.

Groningen fought back however. Tim Matavz netted for 1-2 in the 83rd minute and Andreas Granqvist got the equaliser five minutes later.

But Feyenoord had the final day, as defender Ron Vlaar scored the winning goal in the 90th minute.

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Easy home wins for PSV and Ajax

Both PSV Eindhoven and Ajax cruised to easy home victories on Sunday, beating Heracles and Heerenveen respectively.

PSV needed a win to restore the original two-point gap with leaders Twente, and opened the scoring through Ibrahim Afellay in the 45th minute. At this point. Heracles were already a man down as Martin Pieckenhagen was sent off in the 28th minute.

Balazs Dzsudszsak made it 2-0 five minutes after half time, Ole Toivonen added a third in minute 62 and the fourth and final goal came from Jagos Vukovic with a few minutes to go.

Demy de Zeeuw helped Ajax to an early and comfortable lead over SC Heerenven with goals in the 7th and 24th minutes, for Marko Pantelic to score the home side’s third in minute 28.

Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez made it 4-0 from the spot in the 35th minute. Four minutes later, Goran Popov pulled one back for the visitors but Ismail Aissati reacted by almost immediately hitting the target for 5-1.

No more goals were scored in the second half.

Jonathan Roorda

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Villa suffer shock Austrian defeat

Aston Villa have work to do in the Europa League after losing their playoff first leg on Thursday away to Austria’s Rapid Vienna 1-0.

The Austrians caught Villa cold as Nikica Jelavic netted the only goal in the opening minute to floor the English Premier League side, who began their league campaign last week with a surprising home loss to Wigan.

Another top flight English side, Everton, were later taking on Czech club Sigma Olomouc in their first game of the Europa League, a revamped version of the UEFA Cup.

Slovakian side Kosice meanwhile gave glitzy Italian rivals AS Roma a fright as they shared six goals with the hosts’ Jan Novak baging a brace, to add to a four-goal haul last week in a league loss to Spartak Trnava.

Francesco Totti also hit a double for Roma.

Kosice will now hope to pull off a shock in the Italian capital next week in the return leg.

One side almost guaranteed the win over two legs, and a place in the group stages, are Germany’s in-form Hamburg, who swamped Guingamp 5-1 in France with Croatian playmaker Mladen Petric scoring a hat-trick.

Jose Paolo Guerrero, who set the ball rolling in the seventh minute, and Marcus Berg were the Germans’ other scorers while Guingamp eked out a consolation when visiting keeper Wolfgang Hesl out through his own net.

There looks to be no fairytale for Irish side St Patricks Athletic, on the evidence of their 3-0 loss away to Romania’s former European champions Steaua Bucharest.

Further afield, there were 150 arrests at the match between Czech hosts Slavia Prague and visiting Red Star Belgrade.

Spain’s former Champions League semi-finalists Villarreal and Switzerland’s Basel both scored 3-1 away successes at Holland’s NAC Breda and Azeri outfit Baku respectively – Marco Streller took the plaudits for Basel with at two-goal show.

French side Toulouse also emerged with a 3-1 win, in their case at Turkey’s Trabzonspor.

Two Israeli sides enjoyed contrasting fortunes as Hapoel Tel Aviv won 2-1 with a last-gasp winner at Czech opponents Teplice but city rivals Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv went down to an Ibrahim Afellay goal as PSV Eindhoven clinched a 1-0 away leg success.

Elsewhere, Dutch side Heerenveen would apear to be in the driving seat after a 1-1 draw away to PAOK Salonika of Greece.

Litex Lovetch of Bulgaria won by the only goal at Belarus rivals BATA Borisov and the Austria versus Ukraine matches between Sturm Graz and Metalist Kharkov and Metalurgs Donetsk and Austria Vienna both ended in scoring draws.

CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria and Dinamo Moscow ended a goalless stalemate in the Bulgarian capital.

PARIS (AFP)

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Afellay to stay at PSV

Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven’s winger Ibrahim Afellay has promised to see out the remaining two years of his contract at PSV.

The 23-year-old midfielder, who has reportedly been watched by several top European teams, however no firm offer has been made.

Afellay, who began his football career at the amateur club USV Elinkwijk, has appeared 99 times and scored 23 goals in the process for PSV.

Afellay told Sportweek magazine: “I’m not only going to play at PSV in the coming season, I’ll serve out my contract which runs until June 2011 at this club.”

By: Abhimanyu Rajput

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