Malmö also signs against the association
The quarter-final match of the cup, Djurgården-Malmö, will be played on Monday.
It causes Djurgården to collapse and Malmö to react.
– One begins to wonder how things are going in the federation, says Bos Anderson, sporting director of the Djurgården team.
The message was quite clear to the clubs from the federation ahead of yesterday’s draw.
– said Boss Andersson and Daniel Andersson, the sporting directors of Djurgården and Malmö respectively, with one quarter-final on Saturday and two on Sunday.
But after the draw, the Swedish Football Association announced that Djurgården-MFF will play on Monday.
It causes both clubs to react.
“I think we’re doing an ineffective job.”
Boss Anderson is furious that Djurgården, who plays the last-16 in the European Conference League against Lech Poznań on the Thursday before and the Thursday after, will only have two days rest for the second European game.
– We decided in Swedish football that if you play in Europe on a Thursday, you play in the Allsvenskan, or the Cup in this case, on Sunday. Not Monday or any other day. Why should we turn away from it now? You’d think there would be more respect for this at the European Games, but they ran over it again. He says we are very disappointed.
– The players and coaches are not happy about this and think that we are doing an incompetent job in the apparatus. But we were early on the ball and didn’t trust the federation and gave that information in advance. A dialogue was then supposed to take place after the draw but there was no dialogue. They didn’t communicate and just made the decision. Then you start to wonder how things are in the Football Association. We are very disappointed.
The MFF put out a tweet on Tuesday morning to celebrate against the union, writing:
Before the draw on Monday evening, it was clearly announced that the quarter-finals would take place on Saturday and Sunday. Changed to Monday without prior information and without Malmö FF We had to show our position on match day.
It cannot be appealed
Daniel Anderson:
– Our fans prefer long matches to be played on weekends and of course we want to make it easier for them. The association needs to review its procedures. They clearly came out with a set schedule for the game and there was no mention of any other stipulations. But from a sporting point of view, there is no problem for us to play on Monday.
continued:
– I think I know what happened: a derby was drawn between Hammarby and AIK and then the police did not want it to take place on Saturday but on Sunday. Djurgården can’t play on the same day as the derby and they can’t play on a Saturday (because the Europa game is on a Thursday) and then it would be a Monday.
But Poussey Anderson doesn’t believe in the “police course.”
– I don’t think it depends on the police. They’ve dealt with it. The federation justified this by saying that Hammarby’s women have a game on Saturday and therefore cannot play on the same day as the men’s. will collapse. This was the answer we got from the association. Like I said, we are very disappointed with the handling. We can’t appeal either, says Djurgården’s boss.
meeting during the morning
Krister Gustafsson, head of the Swedish Football Association’s competition committee, did not receive criticism from Djurgården and Malmö when Sportbildet reached out to him.
But Gustafsson announces that the competition committee will hold a meeting in the morning about the match schedule, and that the association can make a statement only after this.
– I will not comment on anything until after the meeting, as I suppose there was a question about the game program, and this is what we will deal with at the meeting, says Gustafsson.