Viktor Elm netted a stoppage-time winner as Heerenveen defeated nine-man FC Groningen 2-1 to move level on points with Ajax and enhance their bid for European football next season.

EUROPE’S big guns play World Cup 2006 qualifiers this afternoon in the knowledge they have little room for error.

AZ Alkmaar’s dream season shows no sign of slowing up after Co Adriaanse’s men maintained their shock title challenge with a comfortable 2-0 defeat of ADO Den Haag this afternoon.

AZ Alkmaar 1 Rangers 0

Sporting Lisbon ended Dinamo Tbilisi’s interest in the UEFA Cup with a crushing 4-0 victory at the Boris Paichadze stadium in Georgia.