Feyenoord beat leaders AZ 2-0 to go top as VAR overturns AZ penalty

📰 Unbeaten second-placed Feyenoord beat leaders AZ 2-0 at home to go top of the Eredivisie. 📌 Key points 🥇 Feyenoord won the first-against-second clash 2-0. ⚽ Nacho Ferri and Javi López scored the goals. 📺 AZ's 43rd-minute penalty was overturned after a VAR review. 📊 AZ had 58% possession but only two shots on target. 🔝 Feyenoord move a point clear of AZ on 20 points. 📝 What happened ⚽ Feyenoord beat AZ 2-0 at De Kuip in Rotterdam on 10 October in Matchday 8 of the 2026-27 Eredivisie. In the 13th minute Nacho Ferri seized on an error by AZ defender Wouter Goes and fired into the bottom-left corner. 📺 On 43 minutes AZ's Mexx Meerdink went down after contact with Feyenoord goalkeeper Tjark Ernst. Referee Danny Makkelie first gave a penalty, but overturned it after VAR sent him to the monitor. 🎯 On 59 minutes Javi López finished from Charles Vanhoutte's corner to make it 2-0. 📊 According to ESPN, AZ had 58% of the ball but only two of their 12 shots were on target. Feyenoord had 15 shots, four on target. 📊 By the numbers • Feyenoord: 20 points, top and unbeaten in eight • AZ: 19 points, first defeat of the season • Possession: Feyenoord 42%, AZ 58% • Shots: Feyenoord 15 (4 on target), AZ 12 (2 on target) 🔭 Why it matters AZ had won six and drawn one of their first seven games, so their first defeat reshapes the title race. Giovanni van Bronckhorst's Feyenoord are back on top after eight unbeaten games. Only a point separates the two sides.