The match between Chelsea and Liverpool was abandoned – after six minutes.
The plan was frozen solid.
– Liverpool manager Matt Baird told the BBC it shouldn’t have been played.
Six minutes into the Women’s Premier League match between league leaders Chelsea and ninth-placed Liverpool, where the unexpected incident occurred. The match was canceled because the field was too rough.
The referees decided to cancel the match due to the freezing of the field.writes on the Chelsea website.
– I don’t know why it took me six or seven minutes to understand it. It was frozen when we reheated it, and you can tell. I am so disappointed that our fans have timed and traveled all the way here. It should not have been played, Liverpool manager Matt Bird told the BBC.
National team goalkeeper Zisera Mosović started with Chelsea. Magdalena Erickson sat on the bench.
– You could see it was like an ice hockey field, but it’s not us, the coaches, who decides. We need hot plans for sports to be taken seriously. The match will never start. At the same time, no game has to be called off, so we need hot plans, Chelsea coach Emma Hayes tells the BBC.
She continues:
– It wasn’t playable at half past ten, so they waited until two. There was a part of the field that was very rough at the time, so they released the heat on that part. Then they tested everything and said it wasn’t too bad. But once the blanket over the pitch was removed, the situation became different.
During Saturday, a similar event occurred when the Tottenham-Leicester match was called off for the same reason.