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The dry cleaners of Rotterdam will have a busy weekend.   Because, as Duje Caleta-Car underhit a simple back pass straight from kick off, Cyriel Dessers nipped in to do what Cyriel Dessers

does better than anyone else in the UEFA Conference League. Better than anyone else in Dutch football this season. He stepped up just when Feyenoord needed him most, the most instinctive of

poacher’s goals 11 seconds into the second half sending gallons of beer soaring into the night sky.  Dessers scored twice as Feyenoord triumphed by the odd goal in five during a thrilling

last-four clash with Marseille, ensuring the Rotterdammers have their foot in the final ahead of next week’s return leg in France.  And such has been Dessers’ form in the inaugural

competition, would anyone really be surprised if the Club Brugge loanee pops up in the 89th minute at the Stade Velodrome, sending Feyenoord through to face off against Leicester City or AS

Roma in Albania in May?  No one in the UEFA Conference League has scored more than the Dutchman’s ten goals in 11 games. In fact, Dessers has found the net more frequently in continental

competition than he has in the Eredivisie since moving to De Kuip. Only Tammy Abraham, Roma’s £70 million-rated England international, comes close.  CAN FEYENOORD WIN THE UEFA CONFERENCE

LEAGUE? “Maybe I’m not such a bad striker after all,” the 2020 Eredivisie Golden Boot winner laughs post-match, via Sporza.  MORE NOTTINGHAM FOREST STORIES “I’m glad we won. It was a

spectacular match. Scoring in such a full stadium is something you dream about as a child. That is an indescribable feeling.”  If Nottingham Forest weren’t in such remarkable form

themselves, their failure to secure Dessers’ signature last summer would perhaps have come under more scrutiny. The 27-year-old admitted a couple of months ago that Forest came calling

before he put pen to paper with Feyenoord on the final day of the summer transfer window.  Now, with Forest dreaming of automatic promotion and Dessers firing Feyenoord to the brink of their

first European final since the 2002 UEFA Cup, this feels like one of those rare occasions where everything worked out for everybody.