Justin Bijlow will be fully training again at Feyenoord from next week. That is what the injured goalie of the team from Rotterdam is wearing just before The Classic ESPNreporter Jan Joost van Gangelen told. Bijlow has been missing since early February due to a broken wrist and has since been replaced by Timon Wellenreuther.
When Van Gangelen entered the field of the Johan Cruijff ArenA prior to The Classic, he couldn’t believe his eyes. “I thought: Hey? Justin Bijlow in a tracksuit, it won’t be like that, will it?”, he says. Van Gangelen then decided to check with Bijlow and soon gathered more information. “He said that he is doing well, that his brace is off and that next week he will catch and stop balls for the first time in training.”
Good news for Feyenoord and Justin Bijlow:
“His brace is off and he will be catching balls again next week.” ????#ajafey
— ESPN NL (@ESPNnl) March 19, 2023
At the beginning of February, Bijlow was suddenly missing from the match selection at Feyenoord, when it had to play in the top match against PSV. The Friday before he had trained ‘normally’. Wellenreuther replaced his colleague under the bar and has since proved himself a worthy second choice. The mercenary from Anderlecht received a total of thirteen in the ten matches he played. He kept a clean sheet twice.
Bijlow’s return comes too early for the upcoming international match period. The 25-year-old closing post was still in the final selection of the Dutch national coach Louis van Gaal last World Cup. Successor Ronald Koeman chooses Jasper Cillessen (NEC), Mark Fleks (SC Freiburg) and Bart Verbruggen (Anderlecht) as his three keepers for the European Championship qualifying matches with France (24 March) and Gibraltar (27 March). Andries Noppert, first goalkeeper during the World Cup, is not yet fit enough, just like Bijlow.
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