There are exactly 13 days left for Girona to compete again. It will be on Thursday the 22nd of this same month, in the match against Cacereño corresponding to the second round of the King’s Cup. To show up with the batteries charged, bearing in mind that the League has been stopped for a month due to the World Cup dispute, the team is fine-tuning its preparation to the maximum and this morning (11 a.m.) plays the second friendly in only three days apart. After winning Thursday’s Standard in Liège, Belgium, it’s time to go up a notch. Míchel Sánchez and company are put to the test against OGC Niça, currently ranked ninth in the French league, placed about ten points from the European positions, but without suffering because the relegation places are at some distance . A classic of Gaelic football, with 23 seasons in the elite, the last of them fighting to sneak into the top places of the classification. A test to check how the Girona team fares, who passed the first test by the minimum (1-0) with a goal from Samu Saiz. And opportunity also for Reinier Jesús to have reason to remember, if only for a while, his most recent past in his still short career as a professional.
Reinier sat out Thursday because he is injured. He will not compete today either. Drag an ankle injury and continue to do specific work to strengthen the sore area. The goal is to be available for the Cup duel with Cacereño. He has traveled to Estepona to train under the watchful eye of the physical trainers and Míchel himself, who wants to have him at one hundred percent as soon as possible. Today, if he jumps onto the grass of the Estepona Football Center it will be to run for a while and exercise there. Time for him to reunite with Lucien Favre, now Nice’s coach, and who he knows well enough. The Swiss was their coach at Dortmund for a few months, from the summer of 2020 until December of that same year, when he was dismissed. Reinier, as is now the case in Girona, was on loan from Real Madrid to the German team. It was his first stage and he didn’t have much luck, in general, nor with Favre himself, who didn’t trust him too much. Made him play five Bundesliga games and counting. It’s not like he’s an undisputed starter now either, but for now, he’s racked up more minutes (311) in just a few months than he did in either of the two entire seasons he spent wearing yellow and black. Maybe today they spank her for a while, they remember the past. But Reinier won’t be able to show him what he’s capable of on the grass. It is ruled out. Nor will Yangel Herrera, Borja García, Juanpe Ramírez or Ibrahima Kébé play.
