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In the Netherlands, the country's "Eredevisie" championship matches continue. This weekend, nine matches of the 24th round took place. It seems that defending champions PSV Eindhoven, coached by Ronaldo Koeman, have fallen into a deep hole, unable to win several consecutive matches. This time, Eindhoven's club only managed a draw away against the mid-table team Sparta Rotterdam, which had been the absolute underdog in the league for a long time. PSV took the lead only at the beginning of the second half, thanks to Australian striker Jason Culina, but half an hour later, Haris Medunjanin equalized for the home fans. By the way, this was the third consecutive draw for both PSV and Sparta in this championship. Both Amsterdam's Ajax and Alkmaar's AZ took advantage of this stumble. However, Ajax faced some nerves against one of the underdogs, Den Haag. After conceding a goal in the first half, the capital's players only leveled the score in the second half. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored the winning goal 20 minutes before the end of the match. After this victory, Ajax reduced the gap to PSV to three points. AZ had a slightly easier time. Playing at home against Willem II, AZ's players secured a 2-0 victory. The goals were scored by Danny Koevermans and Maarten Martens. Now Alkmaar's team is one point behind Ajax and four points behind the leaders PSV. Another important victory was achieved by the temporary escapee from the absolute outsider label, Waalwijk's RKC, who defeated Almelo's Heracles 2-0 in front of their own fans. In Enschede, local team Twente crushed their table neighbor Feyenoord from Rotterdam 3-0. In this match, Kennedy Bakircioglu scored twice, while Jeroen Heubach added one goal. This was Twente's fourth consecutive victory. Now, despite performing fairly inconsistently in this championship, Feyenoord, sitting in fifth place, trails Twente by seven points. 24th round results: "Excelsior" 0 - 2 "Groningen" 24' [0 - 1] G. Lovre 49' [0 - 2] L. Suarez "Roda" 1 - 0 "NEC" 32' [1 - 0] B. Sibum "Heerenveen" 0 - 0 "Vitesse" "AZ" 2 - 0 "Willem II" "RKC" 2 - 0 "Heracles" 32' [1 - 0] J. Vertonghen 85' [2 - 0] R.v.d. Bergh 28' J. Wuytens ("Heracles") sent off "Den Haag" 1 - 2 "Ajax" 20' [1 - 0] S. Kolk 58' [1 - 1] J. Heitinga 70' [1 - 2] K.J. Huntelaar "Twente" 3 - 0 "Feyenoord" 25' [1 - 0] J. Heubach 58' [2 - 0] K. Bakircioglu 88' [3 - 0] K. Bakircioglu "Utrecht" 1 - 0 "NAC" 76' [1 - 0] P. Kopteff "Sparta" 1 - 1 "PSV" 46' [0 - 1] J. Culina 76' [1 - 1] H. Medunjanin League table
