Chester / Stockholm. Players infected with covid-19 may be suitable for the quarter-final against Belgium and trained alone on Thursday.
However, Peter Gerhardsson does not want to say whether they have had time to test negative.
– I will not respond to that, says the captain of the Swedish national team.
Sweden’s recharge ahead of the European Championship quarter-final against Belgium was marked by several positive coronavirus tests.
Because of the positive tests, many players were quarantined but at the same time they weren’t very sick.
“no proof”
Hannah Glass and Emma Kohlberg, who has contracted coronavirus, and Jonah Anderson, who has symptoms of the disease, trained alone on Thursday.
– In this way, it is a little different from regular training, we usually train everyone or you don’t train. Now we have both yesterday and today players who trained in the afternoon. Of course to get an increase from the disease state, says Peter Gerhardson.
He doesn’t know if the players will reach the quarter-finals on Friday.
– No proof. I have no idea about anyone really. That is why they are training today, to see how they react. No one has had a fever and there is a chance that they will be able to coach soccer.
He refuses to answer the question
Gerhardsson refuses to answer the question if the injured players test negative.
– I will not answer that. He says firmly, then continues:
For this reason, I do not want to give Belgium a single advantage in the quarter-finals of a European championship. I have discovered things in the Belgian media that may be important for tomorrow. So I know very little about how things like this work and that’s why I don’t answer.