Can someone sit in a dark box somewhere?
Malmo. The MFF changed the plan ahead of EL’s qualifying return against Diddeleng.
Coach/athletic director Andreas Jorgson had no idea about it.
– I am not aware of this information, says Georgeson when he received the news in the middle of the press conference.
go tomorrow Malmo FF in the Europa League qualifiers after the fiasco in the CL qualifiers against Zalgiris last week.
They do it against Diddeleng of Luxembourg.
And the International Football Association announced, on Monday, that for the return match next Thursday, they choose not to train in the match field the day before, but to train at home on Wednesday morning and then travel to Luxembourg.
But just before today’s press conference, it was reported that they have changed their minds and will instead train on the field of play the classic way.
“there you see”
When Sportbladet asked Andreas Jorgesson, the sporting director who took over as coach after Milos Milojevic’s dismissal, at the press conference about the reason for the system change, it turned out he had no idea about the change, creating a certain confusion.
– You can see there, says Georgeson.
Aren’t you the one who decides such things?!
– I don’t have this information about why we chose to move it.
But isn’t the coach the one who decides when and where to train?
Here, press director Peter Suhlmeier, seated next to Georgeson on the podium, burst into:
– I think it has to do with the fact that it is not easy to arrange flights like this virus.
Georgeson:
– I’d be surprised if it was something else.
Christiansen commented
Georgeson chose to quickly highlight the pros and cons of both systems.
It wasn’t a “deal breaker” for me from the start when we talked about it. I’m not terribly surprised that it has changed. I’ve been through them before. The advantage of training in a match arena is that you can then feel the surroundings, feel the grass and the balls. It can be mentally good for both players and managers. But at the same time, it is difficult to trust that there is no person sitting in a dim chest somewhere watching training. So you may not want to make some tactical preparations afterwards.
– If you are training at home, you can make all preparations before closing the curtain and use this training as much as possible.
You can research hostels before training in Luxembourg, right?
– No way. Sometimes our preparedness has to be more important than the paranoia that opponents see what we do. So you get to choose what you do in that lane. One might avoid the hardest kind of free kick.
Before the first leg tomorrow, Dennis Hadzikadyunic will be absent. The injured centre-back did not train with the squad on Wednesday either, although Georgeson does not want to rule him out completely yet.
In addition to the long-term injured players, captain Anders Christiansen, who has been suspended, is also missing.
But according to Jorgson, there are no question marks for the other players.