Feyenoord hopes to have Justin Bijlow again after the international break, it reports General Journal. The 25-year-old goalkeeper of the team from Rotterdam suffered a wrist fracture during the final training at the home game with PSV (2-2) at the beginning of February and has been sidelined ever since. The leader of the Eredivisie hopes that the goalie can make his comeback in the match selection in the match against Sparta Rotterdam.
Feyenoord’s medical staff are working hard to get Bijlow fit again soon after the international break. However, the goalie’s hand is still in a cast. Feyenoord hopes that Bijlow can again be part of the match selection on Sunday 2 April in the game against Sparta. After last Sunday’s win against FC Volendam (2-1), Arne Slot already indicated that the keeper had to pass up the duels with Shakhtar Donetsk and Ajax.
Timon Wellenreuther has replaced Bijlow under the bar at Feyenoord in recent weeks. The German kept ‘zero’ twice in nine games and is therefore again in the starting line-up during De Classic on Sunday afternoon. The team from Rotterdam has a three-point lead over Ajax. Although Slot cannot rely on Bijlow in the Amsterdam ArenA, Gernot Trauner and Sebastian Szymanski can be deployed again.
The defender and Pole were injured at the end of December and the beginning of February respectively and at first seemed like a question mark for Sunday’s Classic. However, the recovery of the pair went faster than expected. Trauner made his comeback at Feyenoord more than three weeks ago in the away game with Fortuna Sittard (2-4), while Szymanski came in twenty minutes before time in the home game against FC Groningen (1-0) a week later.
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