Gio Reyna started eight matches in a row for the first time in his career. The USA play Haiti on 14 November.
Gio Reyna scored against PSG on 17 October, his second Ligue 1 goal of the season and the latest evidence of the first sustained run of starts of his career; the USA's Nations League quarter-final against Haiti is on 14 and 17 November.
Gio Reyna put Strasbourg ahead of Paris Saint-Germain in the 17th minute on Saturday 17 October, with a low shot that took a slight deflection past Matvei Safonov. 12
PSG replied with three goals after the break and won 3-1. 1
Eight starts in a row
It was his second Ligue 1 goal of the season, after the 6-2 win at Troyes. 23 The bigger number sat on the teamsheet: eight straight starts for club and country, the first run of that length in his career. 4
He has started five of Strasbourg's seven league games, and all four United States friendlies in the September–October window with two assists, the only American to start every one. 45
Strasbourg rested him for the 2-1 defeat at Nice on 11 October. He was back in the starting lineup against PSG. 4
Five seasons of stop-start
Reyna came through Borussia Dortmund, playing 147 games in six seasons. Since 2020-21, when he played nearly 2,000 Bundesliga minutes beside Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham, he finished every season short of 630 league minutes. 45
A loan at Nottingham Forest produced little. At Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2025-26 he scored once in 20 appearances, and he played 137 minutes from the start of 2026. 56
Strasbourg signed him in August on a five-year deal reported at €3 million. The squad he joined averages 21.6 years old. 47
At the 2022 World Cup, then-coach Gregg Berhalter nearly sent him home from Qatar over his effort in training, and the fallout became a public feud between his family and the coach. In May this year, Reyna called the topic "a little bit tiring". 6
What November asks
The USA's next competitive match is the first leg of the Concacaf Nations League quarter-final against Haiti at Sabina Park in Kingston on Saturday 14 November, kicking off at 4:30pm local and ET (1:30pm PT). 89 The second leg is at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati on Tuesday 17 November (7pm local and ET, 4pm PT). 1011
Reyna turns 24 on 13 November, the day before the first leg. He arrived at Strasbourg with 43 caps and 10 goals, and played in all five of the USA's matches at the World Cup. 7
What has changed is availability. Strasbourg have lost three in a row and sit 12th, and he has no league assists to go with those goals. 25
Quote of the Day
"We just have to keep going ... and use this mentality and the way we played today as the standard of what we should do every week." — Gio Reyna, after Strasbourg lost 3-1 to PSG 2
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