Intro:

Heerenveen snatch late goal to beat Feyenoord 1-0 in Dutch Eredivisie play-offs.

And in the other semi-final, Vitesse beat PEC Zwolle 2-1 in the first leg of their Eredivisie playoff semi-final on Thursday (21st May).

Script:

Giovanni van Bronckhorst begun life as Feyenoord coach with a trip to Heerenveen in pursuit of Europa League qualification.

The side from Rotterdam have failed to win any of their last five league games and they were on the back foot early on.

The dissected Feyenoord defence grateful for an alert Kenneth Vermeer from Luciano Slagveer's effort.

Feyenoord had chances to open the scoring in the semi-final first leg, Jens Toornstra wasn't far away with this free-kick.

Yet with less than 10 minutes to play Heerenveen found an all important goal to take to Rotterdam for the second leg.

Simon Thern with the final touch after good work from Henk Veerman. The return leg is on Sunday.

The other semi-final, saw fifth from the regular season Vitesse, travel to sixth PEC Zwolle.

The regular season brought a win apiece for both sides, yet the opener for Zwolle looked ever so easy.

Maikel ven der Werff with the neat finish, a man who is due to join Vitesse in the summer.

Vitesse responded in the second half.

Marko Vejonovic's effort took a deflection, yet goalkeeper Warner Hahn may feel he should have done better.

Six minutes later, there was little the 22-year-old keeper could do as Qazaishvili showed his class to give the away side a 2-1 lead to take back to Vitesse on Sunday.