11 matches into Gio Reyna’s season-long mortgage spell with Borussia Moenchengladbach has began to carry out the perfect within the attacking midfielder as soon as once more.
Reyna should still be in search of his first aim and help for the Bundesliga membership, however it hasn’t stopped Eugen Polanski’s perception within the younger attacker. Polanski has rewarded Reyna with three-consecutive begins in latest weeks, a serious enchancment to the 23-year-old’s earlier function instead off of the bench.
Regardless of Reyna having a brief health problem previous to his membership debut, the U.S. males’s nationwide group midfielder has began racking up the taking part in time, one thing that he desperately wanted this fall.
Polanski has continued to belief Reyna throughout Gladbach’s shift up the league desk, praising his development and willingness to enhance on the sphere.
“We wished to steadily combine him extra and generate extra taking part in time,” Polanski stated in an interview with Bundesliga.com “For that to occur, it was essential that Gio embraced it the best way he did. I’ve hardly ever seen a coaching session from him that I wasn’t happy with, and I’ve not too long ago seen values I hadn’t seen earlier than.
“We will virtually change him [Florian Neuhaus] like-for-like,” Polanski added. “He [Reyna] maybe has a barely extra attacking profile, is a bit higher within the house between the traces, and isn’t the identical clear playmaker as Flo. He’s made extraordinarily good runs and improved from sport to sport. I’m extraordinarily glad.”
Reyna has totaled 308 minutes of taking part in time this Bundesliga season, whereas additionally that includes twice for the USMNT in the course of the November window. He received’t be capable to add to that complete although on Friday when Gladbach visits Reyna’s father or mother membership, Borussia Dortmund, in Friday’s newest league encounter.
Nevertheless, Reyna ought to play a key function for the membership as soon as they resume their Bundesliga schedule on January 11 after a two-week winter break.