Elfsborg played 2-2 at home against Degerfors, which means they missed the chance to become Swedish champions on Sunday and now everything will be decided in a week.
After the final whistle, there were heated feelings and some players were furious. Among other things, Hakon Valdimarsson threw a water bottle into the players’ corridor and shouted: “Fucking substitution”.
When the Football Channel asks a few minutes later what he meant by that, he doesn’t want to talk about it.
– It was not as it seemed. It’s not something you understand, he says.
Can you try to explain?
– I mean, so… I don’t know. I don’t know what to say. It was nothing special.
Don’t want to talk about it?
– No.
Since Valdimarsson does not want to explain what he meant by shouting “fucking substitution”, it is difficult to know exactly. If it was about any of the changes his team made, there were five changes made.
Niklas Hult and Emmanuel Boateng suffered injuries and were forced to make substitutions. The midfield anchor Andri Baldursson stepped down at halftime, the team’s top scorer Jeppe Okkels after 60 minutes and the hard-fighting striker Per Frick after 80 minutes.
When Fotbollskanalen asks Okkels how he feels about being replaced after 60 minutes when his team had a chance to win gold, he replies that he would have liked to continue playing.
– It was Jimmy’s decision. Obviously I wanted to play for 90 minutes. But it’s all about getting three points and if the coaches thought it was the best decision, well then it was. No weirdness, but it is clear that they wanted to play for 90 minutes, he says.
Brave to take out the team’s best scorer?
– Haha, yes, you have to ask him how he thought. But maybe he thought he wanted to bring in new energy or something? I just have to respect that.
Valdimarsson was angry after the final whistle and shouted “fucking substitution” – do you think he meant that you were forced to leave?
– I do not know. You can ask him that.
This is how Jimmy Thelin explains that he took out Jeppe Okkels:
– As you say, he is the best scorer and one of the best wingers in the series, but you don’t always have the day every now and then. That’s how it is for all players. Degerfors did well and we ended up in a lot of scoring situations, so we chose to bring in a striker, among other things, he says and explains that there was great disappointment among the players that there was no victory.
– We captured everyone but we have to understand a human dramatic aftermath, there was a lot, a lot of emotion. More happened in the last quarter than in an entire season.
Among the players who jumped in, there were several who did well. Jens Thomasen assisted for 1-2, Noah Söderberg made it 2-2 and Besfort Zeneli answered perhaps for the very best throw-in.
2023-11-05 20:04:00
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