Overview
- Feyenoord beat Telstar 2-1 at De Kuip as Anis Hadj Moussa scored twice and Raheem Sterling came off the bench to make his debut.
- FC Twente overturned FC Groningen 2-1 in Enschede after a mistake by Etienne Vaessen gifted Daan Rots the equaliser before Kristian Hlynsson netted the winner, lifting Twente to fifth.
- De Graafschap secured a third straight win with a late strike by substitute Fedde de Jong in a 1-0 victory over Jong FC Utrecht to firm up third place in the KKD.
- FC Eindhoven claimed all three points with a stoppage-time thunderbolt from Simons, while Fortuna Sittard’s 2-1 win over Excelsior took the Limburgers to 29 points and further from danger.
- At a Vlaardingen port-area control, police dogs located six stowaways from Afghanistan and Iraq in a truck trailer and arrested the Turkish driver on suspicion of human smuggling, and a separate four-vehicle collision in Spijkenisse left at least one person lightly injured.