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Match Recap
Marco Rente bookended a brutal afternoon for Excelsior, opening the scoring in the 7th minute and sealing his brace deep into stoppage time as Groningen ran riot in the Eredivisie. Excelsior actually levelled through Irakli Yegoian in the 36th, but Stijn van Gassel answered two minutes later and the floodgates opened: Thom Van Bergen and Brynjólfur Darri Willumsson added further goals inside a seven-minute spell either side of the hour mark to turn a contest into a rout. Both sides arrived level on 11 points, with Groningen's indifferent form offering no hint of what was coming, while Excelsior had actually won their only previous meeting between the two. None of that mattered once Rente and company got going, and the 1-5 scoreline barely tells the full story of how one-sided it became. For Excelsior, there's little to take from this beyond a damage assessment; for Groningen, six goals and a two-goal hero is the kind of afternoon seasons turn on. Watch how Rente's stoppage-time finish capped the demolition in the highlights below.
