lig. There is constant secrecy from the Swedish side ahead of the quarter-finals.
Peter Gerhardsson claims to have received useful information about opponents through Belgian journalists.
– It shows they might be a little nervous, facing Belgium captain Yves Cernells.
Sweden is the favorite in the quarter-finals. Second place in the world standings with an Olympic silver and a World Cup bronze in the bag against Belgium, 19th.
But despite the mental advantage before the match, the Swedish captain left Peter Gerhardson No free information can give opponents any advantage.
The secrecy about the sick (now healthy) trio of Hannah Glass, Jonah Anderson and Emma Kohlberg was great and he didn’t want to delve into the tactics Peter Gerhardsson had in mind before the match.
– I don’t want to give Belgium a single advantage in the quarter-finals, says Gerhardsson.
However, in the pre-match press conference, he gave a hint that the management of his national team conveyed useful information to Sweden.
– I have found out things from the Belgian media that may be important for tomorrow. Guild Leader says, I know how such things work.
What kind of things did Peter Gerhardson not want to tell. Is it about writing down the elements in the Belgium defensive match or does centre-back Laura de Neve look like he will miss the match and be replaced by teacher, part-time professional Amber Tessiak, 22?
– We, like all teams, read newspapers and check. I don’t know that language but we have people who explore opponents and read so we got information and that was above all one interesting thing that we could take advantage of.
Whatever the case, Belgium captain Yves Cernells doesn’t care.
– He can say whatever he wants. He said at the press conference that I know what we have to do and that is the most important to me.
When asked what he thought of Peter Gerhardsson’s staff receiving information about his team via the media, he mostly shrugged his shoulders.
– I don’t know what kind of information. I am not afraid of information about who is playing. It’s football, it’s a quarter-final match in the European Championships, and maybe it shows that they are a little nervous, says the captain of the national team and points out:
– I think we know a lot about Sweden…
On Wednesday, Belgian left-back Davina Veltins noted Sweden’s weakness:
– Maybe defense. They have good players, but we have good strikers and we might be able to hurt them there.
When Sportbladet asked midfielder Justin Vanheivermaet the day before the match how Belgium would hurt Sweden, she didn’t want to answer. Opacity in progress.
However, we can count on the national team administrators to know all about each other’s teams before kick-off.
But Peter Gerhardsson may have drawn the longest straw in secrecy. He got help putting up smokescreens.
Because when Peter Gerhardson was asked how many additional subscriptions he had to foreign magazines, he replied that he had some logins to music magazines like “Uncut”.
Something, in the English translation of the press conference, should have the following meaning:
“I have a cat and an interest in music. I don’t have time to read newspapers.”