Feyenoord owed the victory over Union Berlin (1-2) on Thursday evening to a slip by keeper Andreas Luthe. After a pass from left back Tymoteusz Puchacz, Luthe seemed to have enough time to kick the ball away, but he stumbled on the soaking wet tuber field. This allowed Cyriel Dessers to score the winning goal in an empty goal. The match winner is therefore in front of the camera with a big smile Veronica. Dessers saved Feyenoord on Sunday in injury time against Sparta Rotterdam (0-1) and experienced another golden substitute on Thursday.
“It’s a great week. If you can win twice in a few days, in important matches, that’s great,” he laughs. “Everyone saw that the conditions were extreme today. The weather and the field made it a difficult game. How do you respond to that? When the ball goes back to the keeper in the box, where it was very slippery, you try to put pressure. It worked out well.” In conversation with ESPN Dessers admits with a laugh that it is ‘not very useful’ to score twice as a substitute, because the label of ‘supersub’ then sticks to him and a starting spot remains far away.
In ‘s studio Veronica René van der Gijp takes the opportunity to poke fun at Luthe. According to the analyst, it is ‘a gift’ that keepers are no longer allowed to pick up the ball after pass backs. “If a keeper starts playing football, there is shit going on,” laughs Van der Gijp, and then tells a made-up anecdote. “This is a boy who played in the D’tjes, as an eleven-year-old, as a right back. Then he was put on the bench for six months and then someone said: hey, we have lost our first two keepers, wouldn’t you go stand?”
“Then he said: yes, I would like to try that. Then you get this. All he wants is to take that ball in his hand. But he realizes that that is not allowed and he panics completely. He wants to cut it out.” , but then he completely loses it. You know what’s the worst? That he comes into the dressing room and the libero says: hey, that could happen to all of us,” the analyst concludes with a laugh. With the win, Feyenoord leads by ten points in Group E of the Conference League. It is almost impossible for Feyenoord to miss the winter.
Matchwinner Cyriel Dessers scores again as a supersub!
“No, this is not very useful” ?? pic.twitter.com/jbaI4UoRg1
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