After FC Volendam beat Willem II 2-1 in Tilburg last Wednesday, the Eredivisie side had a one-goal lead to defend in their home stadium on Saturday.
It took Willem II fewer than 20 minutes to completely erase FC Volendam's lead, as Siegert Baartmans and Finn Stam virtually fired the visitors into the Eredivisie.
Suriname international Yannick Leliendal evened things out over two legs with a shot from distance that blew the game wide open a couple of minutes before half-time.
FC Volendam had a golden opportunity to at least temporarily reclaim their spot in the Eredivisie when Robert Mühren went one-on-one with Thomas Didillon-Hödl with less than 20 minutes to go, but the retiring striker hit the post and missed a subsequent header to keep the game tense as it headed into the final minutes.
More penalty drama in Volendam
After 90 minutes weren't enough to determine who would be the 18th and final Eredivisie contestant, Mühren nearly still got his hero's send-off in the 100th minute as the Kras Stadium exploded, but it was all for nothing after Leliendal was found to have committed a foul in the build-up.
The match went all the way to penalties after a 3-3 aggregate draw, and it were the hosts who committed the first misstep on the second go. FC Volendam were then dealt the final blow by, again, a goalkeeper - Willem II's Didillon-Hödl stepped up to take Willem II's fifth and potentially decisive penalty and buried it in the top corner, securing Willem II's return to the Eredivisie after a one-year absence.
The penalty was the second Volendam conceded from a goalkeeper, one week after Telstar's Ronald Koeman scored an 89th-minute penalty that kept Telstar in the Eredivisie instead of FC Volendam.
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