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This weekend saw the start of the new Dutch football championship, in which, as usual, 18 teams are participating.
It seems that after the summer break, footballers were eager to get back on the green field - no draws were recorded in any match, and a total of 36 goals were scored in the first round of the championship. However, nine of them were scored by Alkmaar, where the local team "AZ" achieved the biggest and most impressive victory, crushing the "NAC" team 8-1 and temporarily becoming the leaders of the championship known as "Eredivisie". German player Simon Cziommer scored a hat-trick in this match, becoming the top scorer of the championship.
Amsterdam's "Ajax" team, which recently won the Dutch Super Cup, also achieved an impressive victory by beating Valwijk's "RKC" team at home. Wesley Sneijder scored twice in this match.
The "Den Haag" footballers experienced a bitter defeat at their home stadium, as they were leading 2-1 against the "Heerenveen" team until the 82nd minute of the match, but ended up losing.
The Rotterdam team "Feyenoord" suffered an unexpected defeat as well, losing 0-3 to "Groningen" away.
All weekend results:
1 - 2
2' [0 - 1] D.Lazovic
31' [0 - 2] R.Knol (Penalty).
74' [1 - 2] D.Schenkel
2 - 3
40' [1 - 0] A.Rankovic
42' [1 - 1] P.Bosvelt
58' [2 - 1] R.Tininho (Penalty).
82' [2 - 2] U.Yildirim
90' [2 - 3] A.Alves
2 - 1
2' [0 - 1] M.Fortune
23' [1 - 1] M.E. Hamdaoui (Penalty).
82' [2 - 1] I.Redan
0 - 1
9' [0 - 1] C.Gyan (own goal)
8 - 1
33' [1 - 0] D.Koevermans
40' [2 - 0] S.Cziommer
46' [2 - 1] R.Stam
54' [3 - 1] J.Mathijsen
56' [4 - 1] S.Cziommer
58' [5 - 1] S.Schaars
64' [6 - 1] T.D.Cler
71' [7 - 1] D.Koevermans
80' [8 - 1] S.Cziommer
5 - 0
33' [1 - 0] R.Babel
44' [2 - 0] W.Sneijder
52' [3 - 0] J.Heitinga
69' [4 - 0] W.Sneijder
89' [5 - 0] M.Rosales
3 - 0
55' [1 - 0] E.Nevland
61' [2 - 0] K.v.d.Laak
68' [3 - 0] G.Salmon
3 - 1
44' [1 - 0] P.Cocu
45' [2 - 0] R.Alex
57' [3 - 0] J.V.o.Hesselink
89' [3 - 1] R.Worm
3 - 0
38' [1 - 0] K.Quansah
81' [2 - 0] S.Tanghe
90' [3 - 0] D.Biseswar
42' L.Wilkshire ("Twente") sent off the field
