Frölunda coach Roger Runeberg was furious with the referee’s decision.
Now the referees admit that Växjö’s star defender Joel Persson should have been awarded a penalty kick in the match and that the decision should have been approved.
– We can’t find the tallest tree in Gothenburg and hang ourselves, but that’s too bad. “I understand that Roger Roneberg is angry, and I would have been equally angry,” chief referee Mikael Nord told Göteborgs Posten.
Chief referees Mikael Nord and David Laxola missed an elbow tackle from Joel Persson into Max Freberg’s head.
After the match they admitted it would have been a penalty.
-We miss her. During the match I try to explain this to Roger Runeberg. I’m sorry, we’re burning it. We watch him in the locker room at halftime. There is a five-minute suspension in the match. I go to Max Freberg before three and say: From the bottom of my heart, I’m sorry. We burn it. It should be deportation, says Mikael Nord to the GP.
The Växjö captain still managed to avoid reporting to the disciplinary board.
“You could have stopped the game.”
On TV4 and in the press conference, Roger Runeberg was also upset about being sent off for having too many players on the ice, while Växjö made an early substitution when he took off the goalkeeper in extra time.
The fact that Gabriel Karlsson jumped on for Emil Larme so early was decisive in the match, when Joachim Blichfeld decided to score the goal at 3-2.
– If a player jumps too early, it is not considered a sending off when selecting the goalkeeper. However, there is a pause in the game and the puck is released at the center point. This is where we go wrong. Mikael Nord says: We’ll stop the game, but there’s no sending off.
He became a ghost of Frölunda
Frölunda gave up a 2-0 lead to be defeated at home in Scandinavia.
This was their third straight loss to Växjö this season alone and their sixth straight loss since last season’s semi-final.
For both teams, sold-out home matches await during the weekend round, Växjö vs. HV71 and Frölunda vs. Timrå.
