Heracles moved up to second place in the Eredivisie with a 2-0 win over struggling Heerenveen at the Polman Stadion this evening.

The home side, who were without top scorer Oussama Tannane, bounced back from their 3-1 defeat at the hands of AZ to extend Dwight Lodeweges's side's winless run to seven games.

After a quiet opening 10 minutes, Heracles goalkeeper Bram Castro was called into action twice in quick succession to deny the away side.

Thomas Bruns sent an effort narrowly over the top of goal on the half-hour mark for the hosts, before Castro made another stop, this time from Henk Veerman.

John Stegeman's side then took the lead shortly before the break when Iliass Bel Hassani fired into the roof of the net.

Jaroslav Navratil forced a save from Erwin Mulder on the hour mark as the hosts piled on the pressure, and the Czech forward then struck the crossbar with another effort.

Wouter Weghorst then wrapped up the win with a header from Navratil's cross late on.