The national team needed to call up another goalkeeper.
Randers Patrick Karlgren, 30, has not been the best goalkeeper in the Danish league in recent months.
“I can’t do more football wise, so it has to be a personal thing,” he told Sportbladet.
Greuther Fürth-målvakten Andreas Lindy He was rude, so just to be safe, the national team captain said Jan Anderson In another goalkeeper for the national team.
The extra goalkeeper was a real player, Leopold Walsted, 23, of the Norwegian schedule Seven Odds BK.
Karlgren very disappointed
The management of the national team, for example, overtook the former national team goalkeeper and EC winner with the under-21 team from 2015, Patrick Karlgren30.
The former AIK goalkeeper had two very strong seasons at Denmark’s Randers, who are currently top of the Danish league after 10 rounds.
In six of them, Carlgren was named Team of the Week. He has been the Goalkeeper of the Month Team in July and August, has the highest number of saves and also leads the most saves among all goalkeepers, 59.
How do you look?
– Still very good. Others can rate me, but personally I think I’ve kept a very high level in recent seasons, Patrick Karlgren tells Sportbladet.
The team and I conceded the fewest goals. My stats are very good. I have the largest number of zeros.
Yesterday, the national team called up an additional goalkeeper for Leopold Walstedt. Suspension?
– Too much fun for him. I know his name, but I haven’t seen him play.
“The best will join”
Karlgren average so far: 0.8 goals conceded per game in the Danish League. Walstedt: 1.56 goals / game in Norway.
Surprised he didn’t ask you?
– honestly Yes. You are not the first to ask. I’ve had a lot of messages, from goalkeepers, managers and football in general wondering what happened. So, yeah, I’m surprised.
Why are you not in?
– I don’t know. I haven’t been in contact with Jean or any of the national team captains for a long time. In terms of football, I feel like I did everything to get there. You can’t do more.
It must be something personal against me. I have to be honest and say it, but I really hope that’s not the case.
Could it be age related? You are 30 years old, and Al Shatid, 23 years old.
– That could be the case. But in the national team, the best must be included. I think I belong to one of the best goalkeepers in Sweden.
– Jan herself said that age has no meaning. Zlatan is over 40 years old and has previously talked about Andreas Johansson (Halmstad) as a player in the national team.
How do you think about moving forward?
– I’m not focusing on the national team now. There is full focus on Randers, in the first fight in the Danish league, to get us out to Europe again. Patrick Karlgren says I have to keep going and work at the same very high level.
Jan Anderson’s answer
The goalkeepers selected in the national team squad are Robin Olsen, 32, Aston Villa, Christopher Nordfeldt, 33, AEK, Andreas Linde, 29, Grether Forth, Leopold Walsted, 23, Odds BK.
Etihad captain Jan Andersson on the choice of goalkeeper and how Walstedt and Karlgren were considered:
Our highly qualified goalkeeper coach, Maths Elfvendal, evaluates our goalkeepers week by week. Patrick Karlgren has done an amazing job. Jacob Rehn (formerly Aalborg, now The Conqueror) also. The two are the same age as Christopher Nordfeldt, Andreas Linde, and Robin Olsen.
– Leopold is a younger goalkeeper. He’s at a different age and at a different stage in his career, just like you directed Pontus Dahlberg for a while. Therefore, it is interesting to direct Leopold Wahlstedt. But it’s very, very late and Patrick Karlgren is one of the goalkeepers there, says Jan Anderson.