Welcome to our weekly section at TotalDutchFootball.com – the Eredivisie Team of the Week. Below you will see our ‘Player of the Week’ also – each player will be allocated points and at the end of the season we will declare our ‘Player of the Season’. Each player will be given one point for being named in our team and the ‘Player of the Week’ will gain two points.

WEEK 5

GOALKEEPER

Leonard Nienhuis (SC Cambuur) – Kept a clean sheet at the Philips Stadion to spoil PSV’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

DEFENDERS

Mattias Johansson (AZ Alkmaar) – The Swedish right-back surged forward and scored a great goal in the 1-1 draw with Vitesse.

Eric Botteghin (FC Groningen) – A rock in the Groningen defence that kept Ajax’s forwards at bay to clinch a vital point.

Lucas Bijker (SC Cambuur) – Playing on the left of defence, was the man-of-the-match for the Eredivisie new boys in the 0-0 draw with PSV.

Jason Davidson (Heracles) – An excellent goal to give his side the 1-0 win over ADO Den Haag.

MIDFIELDERS

Victor Palsson (NEC Nijmegen) – Provided a stunning strike in Friday night’s draw with NAC Breda.

Jeffrey Sarpong (NAC Breda) – Tore the NEC defence to shreds but the strikers ahead of him were poor with the finishing.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK Erik Falkenburg (Go Ahead Eagles) – Hat-trick hero in GAE’s 4-1 drubbing of RKC Waalwijk

ATTACKERS

Rajiv van la Parra (Heerenveen) – Starting up front for Van Basten’s men, dribbled through Twente’s defence with ease on many occassion.

Graziano Pelle (Feyenoord) – Scoring his sixth goal in five games to lead his side to a 4-0 win over Roda JC on Sunday.

Jarchinio Antonia (Go Ahead Eagles) – A constant thorn in RKC’s side providing two assists in his sides 4-1 win.

EREDIVISIE PLAYER OF THE 2013/14 SEASON AWARD
NAME	POS	TEAM	POTW	POINTS
Graziano Pelle	ST	Feyenoord	1	3
Kamohelo Mokotjo	MF	PEC Zwolle		3
Tjaronn Chery	MF	FC Groningen	1	2
Zakaria Bakkali	ST	PSV	1	2
Youness Mokhtar	MF	PEC Zwolle	1	2
Erik Falkenburg	MF	Go Ahead Eagles	1	2

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