Feyenoord beats VVV-Venlo 1-0 in Dutch league

Oct 24, 2009 - 8:57 PM AMSTERDAM(AP) -- Feyenoord midfielder Denny Landzaat scored Saturday to lead his team to a 1-0 win over VVV-Venlo in the Dutch league.

Landzaat scored off a rebound after goalkeeper Kevin Begois had spilled Roy Makaay's shot.

FC Twente leads the standings with 26 points, two more than PSV Eindhoven. Feyenoord has 23 points along with Ajax, which is at defending champion AZ Alkmaar on Sunday.

Twente hosts FC Groningen Sunday hoping to extend its 10-game unbeaten run while PSV, the only other unbeaten side this season, travels to NEC Nijmegen.

Also Saturday, Erik Falkenburg scored a hat trick to lead Sparta Rotterdam to a 3-2 win over ADO The Hague. Falkenburg hit the net in the ninth, 38th and 90th minutes. Danny Buijs and Charlton Vicento replied with first-half goals for ADO

Willy Overtoom and Sebastiaan Steur scored to give Heracles Almelo a 2-0 win over Vitesse Arnhem.

Anthony Lurling scored as NAC Breda edged RKC Waalwijk 1-0. RKC's Gijs Luirink was sent off in the 83rd after picking up his second yellow card.

On Friday, Zambia forward Jacob Mulenga scored his first goal for FC Utrecht and Ricky van Wolfswinkel added another in a 2-1 win over Roda JC. Willem Janssen got a consolation for Roda in stoppage time.

Also Sunday, it's: Willem II vs. SC Heerenveen and Vitesse Arnhem vs. Heracles Almelo