Super Sub Dessers Draws Comparison With Napoli Super Star

Super Sub Dessers Draws Comparison With Napoli Super Star By Omolagba Oluwayemi Cyriel Dessers recent heroic performances has not gone unnoticed in Belgium even though his country didn't deem it fit to invite him for national assignment, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Deemed surplus to requirements in KRC Genk with the arrival of country brother Ike Ugbo, Dessers decided to return to Netherlands where he'd thrived before moving to Belgium and the Nigerian has been fantastic since his return scoring 4 goals in 7 Eredivisie matches for Feyenoord two of which was match winners scored deep into stoppage time and another match winner for Feyenoord in the Europa Conference League against FC Union Berlin. This has now led to him being compared with Belgium Napoli's striker, Dries Mertens who is also a super Sub by Peter Vandenbempt, journalist at Sporza. Cyriel Dessers was for the third time as a row match winner for Feyenoord and he did that every time as a substitute and while singing his praise, Vandenbempt in the podcast De Tribune van Sporza says: "I wholeheartedly wish it on him." "Sometimes the grass is effectively greener on the other side. He had come to Genk from the Netherlands with many letters of honor and it was an expensive transfer, but at Genk he bumped into an unlikely Paul Onuachu, who had little to say, also rarely allowed substitutions, so he did well to move to Feyenoord. He is making it all the way there, albeit as a supersub." Last season, Dessers only started 6 times in 32 competition matches on behalf of Genk. He also has to settle for a role as a substitute at Feyenoord, but he is a lot more successful. The cheerful striker now has five hits in his first months in Rotterdam service. "They should have shirts printed there with CD92 on it," suggests Vandenbempt. "I have been to De Kuip a few times myself and the atmosphere there is phenomenal. To score a winning goal there in the 92nd minute, I would also like to put that on my bucket list." In Belgium, Dessers, who so far was only allowed to start once in the base of Arne Slot, is slowly being compared with Dries Mertens, who also often showed it as a substitute for the Belgian national team. "He (Mertens, ed.) was a good substitute, while others had more trouble with that. Mertens always said that he can also start a match well, something he eventually evolved into. It remains to be seen how that will work with Dessers In any case, I wholeheartedly wish him well, after everything he went through last year," Vandenbempt concluded.