Willem II vs Cambuur 1-6

Cambuur won 6-1 at Willem II after racing into a three-goal lead in the first half and adding three more after the interval. Nicolas Binder scored twice and Jason Ceka netted late to finish it off.

Binder opened the scoring in the 9th minute from Morgan Costarelli's assist, Ilyes Hamache made it 2-0 on 13 minutes from another Costarelli pass, and Ismaël Baouf added a third in the 18th minute from Rafik El Arguioui's cross. A VAR check in the 19th minute confirmed Baouf's goal, and Willem II trailed 3-0 at half-time.

Willem II made three changes at the break, sending on Thomas Verheydt, Armin Culum and Anass Zarrouk, but Cambuur still struck again on 58 minutes when Binder scored his second of the match from Hamache's assist. Rafik El Arguioui then made it 5-0 in the 62nd minute before Cambuur made three more changes on 65 minutes. Willem II finally got on the board on 82 minutes through Zarrouk, who had come on in the 45th minute, after Devin Haen's assist, and Ceka sealed the result on 89 minutes from Wiebe Kooistra, who had come on in the 72nd minute.

The numbers showed Willem II had 52% possession and 371 passes to Cambuur's 370, while Cambuur had 19 shots and 11 on target to Willem II's 11 shots and 2 on target. Willem II also won 13 corners to 4 and made 17 fouls to Cambuur's 10, while the visitors produced 1.94 expected goals to 1.08 and Willem II's goalkeeper made 5 saves compared with 1 at the other end.

Willem II collected two bookings, with Jaden Slory shown a yellow card in first-half stoppage time and Hidde ter Avest booked on 53 minutes. Cambuur had no bookings and no red cards were shown.