Guthenberg. The toughest criticism against the team came from unexpected quarters.
– IFK Gutenberg should not begin to blame the referee. We got ourselves into this situation,” says Sebastian Ericsson, 33.
With the teams that did not win IFK Gothenburg I got another chance to actually get involved in the fight for a European place.
It ended up losing 1-3 to arch-rival Elfsburg, who passed in the table, and a red card to captain and key player Marcus Berg.
“Stand up and shout”
In the mixed area late on Monday evening, about an hour after the final whistle, Sebastian Ericsson made an introductory statement to referee Christopher Carlson:
That the judgment has no value is not news.
But then the veteran IFK Göteborg player, who was directly involved in the second half, was surprisingly critical of the team’s actions against Elfsborg, and how they reacted to the referee’s rulings and performance on the field:
– We can stand and shout for penalties in every match. Did not matter. After all, it is we ourselves who have put ourselves in a situation where we have to complain about a penalty in order to equalize. We don’t want to be there.
– That judgments here or there affect the match… It’s always that way. But we are the ones who put ourselves in the situation.
What do you say about the situation when Marcus Berg received his second yellow card?
– I don’t see what’s going on so I can’t say much.
– Wasn’t the captain and he’s definitely the one to be reprimanded a little bit? But I was on my own so I don’t know what was said. “We have to show some emotion on the pitch, not least our captain Marcus,” says Sebastian Ericsson.
Have you tried talking to the referee about the situation?
– No, you don’t have time to run around and complain about it. This is not a build. It’s more than you stand and yawn in a group. It is fully justified, but IFK Göteborg should not start to blame the referee.
third chance
Where does the season go now for IFK Gothenburg?
– Yes.. Where are we now?
eight.
– Maybe there somewhere, unfortunately. We had the third opportunity to hang on a little – and we never took advantage of it again, he says with a deep sigh in front of the group of reporters.
why are you where are you
– I do not want to try to analyze. But when you have a lot of opportunities and you don’t take advantage of them, that’s what you end up with. That’s enough to say now. We can evaluate later, says Sebastian Ericsson, whose contract with IFK Göteborg expires at the turn of the year.
