Heracles 1-0 Ajax: Ajax lose ground on PSV

Mohammed Osman's early goal was all Heracles needed to pull off the upset against second place Ajax at Polman Stadion.
POS | TEAM | W | D | L | PTS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
6 | FC Utrecht | 9 | 5 | 8 | 32 |
7 | SC Heracles | 10 | 2 | 10 | 32 |
8 | VVV Venlo | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 |
Mohammed Osman's early goal was all Heracles needed to pull off the upset against second place Ajax at Polman Stadion.
Steven Bergwijn opened the scoring for PSV, who secured another three points on the road to keep their narrow lead atop the table intact.
Heracles clinched a third successive win to move into the top half of the Eredivisie as they hit back from a goal down to edge out lowly Twente 2-1 at the Polman Stadion.
Twente seemed set to end a 10-match winless streak, a sequence stretching back to mid-December, when they went ahead five minutes after half-time through on-loan Malaga forward Adnane Tighadouini's strike.
But former Liverpool winger Kristoffer Peterson levelled in the 57th minute when he converted Brandley Kuwas' cross.
And Twente's...
FC Twente moved out of the Eredivisie's bottom three with a 2-1 derby win against Heracles.
The home side took the lead from their first attack in the second minute, with Fredrik Jensen sliding in to score after Tom Boere's shot had been cleared off the line by a defender.
Jensen was denied a second by goalkeeper Bram Castro shortly afterwards, while former Newcastle and Rotherham forward Haris Vuckic's goal-bound effort was hacked away by Lerin Duarte before the break.
Heracles equalised early in the...
Hector Moreno has been accused of making a "disgraceful" tackle by Heracles forward Oussama Tannane less than a week after a challenge which left Luke Shaw with a double-leg break.
PSV Eindhoven midfielder Moreno broke the right leg of Manchester United defender Shaw in a collision during the Dutch side's 2-1 Champions league victory last Tuesday.
The Mexico international was involved in another controversial incident during PSV's 2-1 defeat at Heracles on Saturday, with a late challenge from Moreno...