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.