FC Twente keep their place at the top and their 100% record so far this season, with Ajax and Feyenoord remaining unbeaten and PSV sending a message to their rivals as they really hit their stride.
It was last season's champions that got things rolling as they beat Vitesse Arnhem 4-1 in front of just over 50,000 fans at the Amsterdam ArenA, condemning them to their first defeat of the campaign after a goal packed second half.
It took Ajax until the 53rd minute to find the net, Christian Eriksen making it 1-0. Nine minutes later Derk Boerrigter made it two, and two goals from Kolbeinn Sigthórsson in seven minutes, his third and fourth of the season, made it 4-0 with twenty minutes left to play. Alexander Büttner scored a consolation after 89 minutes but Ajax left with all three points.
FC Twente also won 4-1, beating VVV Venlo and returning to the top of the pile after being leapfrogged by Ajax the day before. And so Venlo are still searching for their first win of the season. Bryan Ruiz didn't take long to help the fans forget about their Champion's League defeat during the week, putting them a goal to the good after just two minutes. Ahmed Mussab levelled the game with 26 minutes gone, but birthday boy Luuk De Jong, who turned 21 at the weekend, restored their lead just two minutes later, and Marc Janko made it 3-1 after another three minutes.
Twente continued to dominate and were rewarded for their superiority on 66 minutes when De Jong grabbed his second and Twente's fourth to wrap up the win and keep his side's 100% start to the season intact. (However, Twente will have to adjust to what will surely be a large loss in the guise of Ruiz, who left moments before the close of the transfer window in a £10.6 million deal for Fulham- Ed.)
RKC Waalwijk continued to show the Eredivisie that they'll be no pushovers this season, beating NAC Breda 2-1 to move them up to seventh in the table. Ex Bristol City and Ajax midfielder Evander Sno put Wallwijk ahead with eleven minutes gone after finding the bottom corner, and it wasn't until the 87th minute that Asil Auassar made it two. Anthony Lurling's injury time goal made it 2-1, but it was too little too late for Breda.
Heracles' unbeaten start to the campain came to an end in Nijmegen as they were beaten 2-1 by NEC at De Goffert. NEC scored two in the opening ten minutes to shell shock their visitors, Lasse Schöne finding the back of the net with just three minutes gone and then Nick Van der Velden doubling the lead five minutes later. Heracles did regroup and looked to have found a way back into the game on the stroke of half time through Glynor Plet, but it wasn't enough and it ended 2-1.
FC Utrecht had to come from behind to beat Roda, putting three past their guests after they had gone 1-0 down. Mads Junker scored the game's first goal in the 38th minute, but Roda's only lead of the night was short lived as Thomas Oar levelled things up before the break. And it was all Utrecht in the second half with Rodney Sneijder earning his side the lead on the hour mark and Jacob Mulenga making it 3-1 thirteen minutes later.
PSV showed the rest of the Eredivisie what they're capable of on Sunday afternoon hammering SC Excelsior 6-1, who remain rooted to the bottom of the table with just a point. Dries Mertens scored PSV's first after half an hour, only for Excelsior to go completely against the run of play and equalise nine minutes later through Mitchell Te Vrede.
It was a very different story in the second half however, and Ola Toivonen made it 2-1 just two minutes after the restart, with Mertens grabbing his second a further two minutes later to make it 3-1. Mertens didn't hang around in ensuring he left with the match ball and in the 51st minute he completed his hat trick making it 4-1. Jermain Lens scored Eindhoven's fifth on 72, and Toivonen completed the rout eleven minutes from time.
Feyenoord could only manage a point against Heerenveen despite the latter finishing the game with nine men, although they remain unbeaten in the league nonetheless. Bas Dost made it 1-0 to Heerenveen from the spot on 26 after he was brought down in the box, only for Leroy Fer to make it 1-1 seven minutes later.
The visitor's went ahead again in the 47th minute when Oussama Assaidi's strike made it 2-1, only to be pegged back once more when Jerson Cabral scored ten minutes later. Heerenveen were then reduced to ten on 64, Ramon Zomer getting a second yellow, and then nine with ten minutes left as substitute Doke Schmidt was shown a straight red, but they held on for the point as the game ended 2-2.
AZ Alkmaar continued to impress as they beat Groningen 3-0 on their travels to move within three points of the Eredivisie summit. And it didn't take long for them to get off the mark, Nick Viergever converting Brett Holman's corner after just thirty seven seconds! Despite their quick start, it took until the 79th minute for AZ to add another and end the game as a contest, when Johann Berg Gudmundsson's great finish doubled their lead. Rasmus Elm made it 3-0 five minutes later to wrap up an impressive away win for his side.
Finally, Den Haag also won 3-0 away from home, beating struggling Graafschap who are yet to win this season. Alexsander Radosavljevič ended an otherwise dull first half when his well struck volley made it 1-0, and after Purrel Frankel's dismissal thirteen minutes from time it was all ADO, Wesley Verhoek and Mike van Duinen scoring in the last ten minutes to make it 3-0.