Danger. Sebastien Holmen immersed Mohamed Darami.
Then Victor Clisson got angry at his old Elfsborg team mates.
– We came up with “Psychic Fijian”. Can I use the word psychopath about him? Johan Larsson asks, laughing.
Elfsborg played hard on the verge of ugly in the first half. FC Copenhagen star Mohamed Darami surged forward on the counter-attack and central defender Sebastian Holmen brought him down with a powerful tackle.
Elfsborg profile Victor Claesson is the team captain at FCK and got really angry after Holmén’s reckless investment. There was a heated debate about the ruling.
It was fun producing Psych of Fiji. He got angry there for a while. It was festive, says Elfsborg captain Johan Larsson.
– In table tennis and football you can highlight it.
“Can you use psychopaths?”
How will it be then?
– Can we use the word psychopath? Haha, you can’t right? No, but he lives in it. Protects his teammates. We do it ourselves too. It was nice to see him. You are friends then.
Victor Clayson shook his head happily when he heard his old teammate’s nickname for him.
He likes to call me that!
“It should have been a red Holmen.”
Clason believed, however, that Elfsborg was too brutal a game of swordsmanship.
– There were boundary cases several times in the first half. Especially in Darami when it’s two against one. It’s well understood that a referee wouldn’t want to give a red card in a training match, but then I got annoyed, says Clesson and continues:
– I think it was a red card and the referee should remove Holmen. But they were both able to play after that, so it was still pretty good.
At the same time, he enjoyed playing against his old teammates.
– It was fun to play. You spin and talk more than you normally would. He laughs a little. When we changed pennants, Johan Larsson didn’t want to pick it up at first because he played at Bröndby. When I located Sebastian Holmen in the corner, he didn’t like it. It’s always a little like that!
Good effort – but a great loss
Elfsborg stood well in the match for a long time and played evenly against FCK for an hour. As both sides began to change, it became clear that the Danes, who replaced Jordan Larsson and Ronnie Bardeggi, had a distinctly stronger showing. Copenhagen eventually won 4-1.
– We have a wider squad than Elfsborg and that was noticeable in the end. Until then, they stand up fine. Then we put on other gear, Clayson says.
Larson agreed:
– For the most part, it’s a reasonable match that we play for an hour. It’s a bit silly to say when we lose 1-4, but if you look at the goals we conceded, it’s the mistakes that create their chances.
Jeppe O’Kells scored Elfsborg’s goal (1-1) after a display by Alexander Bernhardsson.
