Match summary
AZ Alkmaar beat Sparta Rotterdam 2-1 on the road. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Peer Koopmeiners put AZ Alkmaar ahead in the 9th minute, Tobias Lauritsen equalised in the 16th minute, and Sven Mijnans won it in the 74th minute.
Sparta Rotterdam can feel hard done by, creating 1.01 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to AZ Alkmaar's 0.14 from 5.