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Eredivisie round-up: Twente end winless run with victory over Zwolle

Hakim Ziyech of Twente celebrates after he scores his teams first goal of the game with team mate, Renato Tapia .
Image: Hakim Ziyech (R) and Renato Tapia both scored for Twente.

Cash-strapped Twente Enschede returned to winning ways in the Eredivisie on Saturday with a 2-0 win over PEC Zwolle.

Twente, deducted three points by the Dutch football association this month as punishment for financial irregularities, put aside their off-field woes as Renato Tapia and Hakim Ziyech scored two late goals to secure victory.

It snapped a run of six winless matches for Twente and puts them back in contention for a place in the end of season play-offs for the Europa League.

SC Cambuur are alongside Twente on 36 points, but have a worse goal difference, after a 3-1 win over Utrecht.

Erik Bakker, with a penalty, and Sander van de Streek scored for the Leeuwarden-based Cambuur while Frenchman Edouard Duplan netted for Utrecht in a lively first half-hour.

Substitute Mikhail Rosheuvel added a third for Cambuur, who moved up to ninth place, deep into stoppage time at the end of the game.

Goals from Robbie Haemhouts, Ali Messaoud and Ben Sahar handed Willem II Tilburg a 3-2 win at Excelsior.

Adnane Tighadouini scored in the last minute to give NAC Breda a potentially vital victory in their battle against relegation as they won 1-0 over fellow strugglers Go Ahead Eagles, whose coach Foeke Booy announced earlier this week he was leaving at the the end of the season.

NAC remain second last but are now just one point from potential safety.   

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