AZ suffers biggest loss at Heracles since 2018 after two penalties in two minutes | Football

Hornkamp took a penalty in the 38th minute and in the fortieth minute the attacker scored again from 11 meters. The 25-year-old striker wrote history. He is the first player ever to score accurately for Heracles in six consecutive home games in the Eredivisie.

Moreover, Hornkamp is the second player ever to use two penalties in a match for Heracles. Willie Overtoom had the scoop in February 2011 and repeated the trick in September 2012.

It was an evening full of special statistics, because for the first time this season Heracles went to rest in a home match with a lead (3-0). It doesn’t happen often that Heracles wins with such large numbers. The last time the club from Almelo triumphed with a margin of five was in November 2019 against VVV-Venlo (6-1).

For AZ it is the biggest defeat in almost six years. On October 7, 2018, Ajax was 5-0 too strong for the Alkmaar club in the Johan Cruijff ArenA, which was trained by John van den Brom at the time.

AZ has been back in form in recent weeks. The team of coach Maarten Martens won the last three Eredivisie matches, but almost everything suddenly went wrong in Almelo. After nineteen minutes Heracles scored for the first time. Brian De Keersmaecker shot beautifully from outside the penalty area with the left.

In the last minutes of the second half it became more painful for AZ, due to two accurate penalties from Hornkamp. The first was awarded by referee Allard Lindhout after a foul by Riechedly Bazoer on Hornkamp. In the second, Kristijan Belic took Bryan Limbombe to the ground.

After the break, AZ failed to restore the tension. In fact, in the final phase the score rose even further for Heracles. Mohamed Sankoh, Hornkamp’s replacement, made it 4-0 in the ninetieth minute and added to the celebration by making it 5-0 in the final moments.