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1 - The official X page for Stats Perform’s Dutch and Belgian football coverage, brought to you by OptaJohan. Illuminating.

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3 - Since the start of 2017, Anthony van den Hurk scored more perfect hattricks than any other player in the @1e_Divisie (2 - left-footed, right-footed, headed goal).

Perfectionist.

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2 - All Jong AZ players to ever score two goals from outside the box in a single @1e_Divisie game:

Jasper Hartog against Helmond Sport tonight ☄️☄️
Jasper Hartog against ADO Den Haag in January 2026

Comets.

[AZ Jeugdopleiding @AZJeugd]

😮‍💨 51. GOAAALLLL!!!!

Jong AZ staat weer op voorsprong! Jasper Hartog dribbelt op en haalt van grote afstand verwoestend uit. De bal gaat als een raket de rechterbenedenhoek in!

#JongAZ #TheFutureIsOurs | 3-2

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3 - Tyrone Owusu is the first @telstar1963nv player to find the net in three consecutive @eredivisie games since Co Stout in April 1977 (4 in a row).

Bold.

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9:04 - @fcvolendam's Henk Veerman scored his sixth hattrick in the @1e_Divisie, with just 9 minutes and 4 seconds between his first and his third goal against Jong FC Utrecht tonight.

Propelled.

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4 - Kévin Monzialo is the first @mijnfcdenbosch player on record (since 2015/16) to assist four consecutive @1e_Divisie goals for the club.

Dragon.

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6 - Charles-Andreas Brym is the first @NACnl player to find the net in six consecutive league games since Sjoerd Ars in 2016.

Triggered.

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5 - Søren Tengstedt is the first @GAEagles player in history to find the net in each of his first five home games of a single @eredivisie campaign.

Søaring.

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79% - Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznań have won 11 of the last 14 Polish league titles between them, with the two rivals going head-to-head this Sunday in the defining match of the Ekstraklasa weekend.

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Clash.

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4 - Tonight was just the fifth time in history that four different Dutch sides recorded a victory in European football on the same day.

Coefficients.

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87 - Tolu Arokodare's 1-0 in the 87th minute was the latest @AFCAjax scored the opening goal in a European game since 23 October 2018, when Noussair Mazraoui scored in the 92nd minute against Benfica.

Tea-time.

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4 - AZ won their first UEFA Europa League game away from home since 22 October 2020 (0-1 at Napoli), making an end to a run of nine away matches without victory (D2 L7).

Climb.

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3 - This was N.E.C.’s third-ever away victory in Europe, as well as their first by a margin of more than one goal.

Heroic.

[N.E.C. Nijmegen @necnijmegen]

𝑩𝒊𝒈 win, 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 🫂

#DZGNEC

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2 - NEC have scored twice before halftime for just the second time ever in a European game, after previously doing so against Barcelona in October 1983.

Double.

[Opta Analyst @OptaAnalyst]

Matthijs de Ligt returns from injury to start for Manchester United in Como, making his first appearance since 30 November 2025 against Crystal Palace.

#COMMUN

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5 – Donyell Malen is the first Dutchman to be directly involved in five goals (3 goals, 2 assists) in his first three matches of a @ChampionsLeague campaign since Arjen Robben in 2013-14 (5).

Headstart.

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2007 - PSV win away in the @ChampionsLeague without conceding for the first time since November 2007 (against CSKA Moscow).

Heroic.

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39y201d - Nordin Amrabat (39 years, 201 days) is the oldest outfield player ever for FC Utrecht in the @eredivisie, and the oldest in the competition since Jan Heintze in 2003 (39y, 281d).

Veteran.

[FC Utrecht @fcutrecht]

➡️ Amrabat
⬅️ Horemans

#tweutr | 1-2

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27+ - With Feyenoord (31 goals), PSV (27) and Ajax (27), for the first time since 1961-62 three different teams have scored at least 27 goals in the first nine matches of the Eredivisie season (back then also Feyenoord, PSV and Ajax). Potent

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3 - Etienne Vaessen has saved three of the last 16 penalties he has faced in the @eredivisie, with those three saves all coming against Ajax. Nemesis.

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3 - Ilyès Hamache scored four goals in his last three home games and became only the third @SCCambuurLwd player to score in three consecutive home matches in the @eredivisie, after Michael Mols in 1993 and Sander van de Streek in 2015. Boost.