Feyenoord can hardly miss a place in the group stage of the Conference League. The team from Rotterdam completely outclassed the Swedish IF Elfsborg in the first game of the play-offs on Thursday evening: 5-0. Luis Sinisterra was the celebrated man with three hits. “He is getting fitter,” said Arne Slot afterwards. “I liken it a bit to Calvin Stengs. He also came back from a serious injury at AZ.”
“It took some time and he got good and even very good. But an individual can only excel if the whole team plays well. And we have done that,” emphasized the Feyenoord trainer in conversation with ESPN. Sinisterra seriously injured his knee in February last year and only made his return to the Rotterdam team ten months later. In the last twelve league matches of last season, the single Colombian A-international was good for two hits and five assists and this football year the counter after five matches in all competitions already has three goals and two assists.
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Sinisterra, 22, made ‘a great impression’ on Mario Been on Thursday evening. “We already knew that he is gifted in his technique. Sometimes he is a bit sloppy in his passing, you saw that a few times when he wanted to pass a ball to Tyrell Malacia. Everything he does, there is at least an idea behind it and you saw that again today. His assumptions and his actions are a joy to watch,” emphasized the former Feyenoord player and coach.
“Siniterra and Malacia are two players who are eager to come forward. He was constantly dangerous for Feyenoord. The opponent had no grip on him at all.” Sinisterra’s good start to the season will undoubtedly have not gone unnoticed by other clubs. Been does not expect the attacker to leave, although he did not dare to put his hand in the fire. “The whole of Europe is looking for young, good wingers. If you see him play like this: they still have fourteen days to go…”, he referred to the official end of the summer transfer market, which will close on Tuesday 31 August.
Feyenoord took over Sinisterra from Colombian club Once Caldas in the summer of 2018. In his first season, he did not make more than five appearances in the Eredivisie. A season later, first under the leadership of Jaap Stam and then under his successor Dick Advocaat, Sinisterra grew into a major force until he got injured. A month after his return, in January of this year, the attacker signed a new contract until the summer of 2024. Two months earlier, Feyenoord had already lifted an option in Sinisterra’s expiring contract, which means that he is already attached to the club until mid-2023. used to be.