Bad luck Justin Bijlow had to watch 61 premier league matches injured | Dutch football

61 to be exact. Last season, for example, the Feyenoord goalkeeper missed nine matches, also due to a broken wrist. As a result, he missed the duels with AZ, Ajax and PSV, among others. Bijlow was also regularly sidelined in the previous seasons. Of the 16 premier league matches he could have played since the summer of 2018, he had to watch 37.4 percent of the matches.

His longest injury dates back to 2019, when he injured his foot in January and was therefore unable to play for months. In total, he was not in action for 207 days. He also had problems with his knee, elbow, toe and groin in recent years. If we add up all the duels that he could have kept for Feyenoord and the Dutch national team since Bijlow’s debut, he missed, according to Transfer market in all competitions already no less than 161 games. It should be noted that Bijlow only made his debut for the Orange in 2021.

The eight-time international, who has defended Feyenoord’s goal 121 times so far, was injured on Friday during the final training towards the duel with Sparta. Timon Wellenreuther took over his place under the bar yesterday. The German could not prevent Feyenoord from dropping two points: the game ended 2-2.

“This hits Justin hard”, said Feyenoord coach Slot after the game. ,,But Justin has often shown that he is extremely resilient. He always knows how to fight back. And he often comes back even better. I do think we should attract a keeper”, the coach admitted, who has Kostas Lamprou at his disposal in addition to Wellenreuther.

“We have to think carefully about what we want. Will it be a first goalkeeper who is preferred to Timon, or will we choose someone behind Timon? And what does that cost? We need to think carefully about how we are going to approach this.”