PSV Eindhoven ended Ajax’s unbeaten start to the season and blew the Eredivisie title race wide open with their 2-1 win in Amsterdam on Sunday.
The Dutch champions took the lead over the league leaders after seven minutes, their new signing Gaston Pereiro opening the scoring by firing into the roof of the net. Three minutes later Ajax added to a frantic opening by equalising, as Amin Younes curled the leveller into the net.
Both sides had good chances as the game progressed, most notably Viktor Fischer’s effort for the home side that hit the post in the second half, but PSV claimed the winner in the closing stages.
Pereiro, making his first league start for Phillip Cocu’s side, cut in from the right, made space for his shot and lashed the ball into the corner of the net past the grasping Jasper Cillessen.
Ajax remain top of the Eredivisie but only on goal difference after Feyenoord drew level with Frank de Boer’s men. Feyenoord beat the bottom side De Graafschap 2-1 earlier in the day, moving above Heracles, who beat Heerenveen 2-0 on Friday night, into second.
