Hambus Wendel, Rasmus Schuller and Pierre Neurath Benjson missed the match against Kalmar.
Now Djurgården is looking to get the trio back.
Everyone is training today, says Thomas Lagerlöf.
Djurgarden has a tough week ahead with three matches in seven days. The team was mostly injury-free during the season, but against Kalmar Pierre North Bengtsson, Rasmus Wendel and Rasmus Schuller were absent due to injury issues.
However, it looks like the trio may return for tomorrow Europa Conference LeaguePlay against APOEL.
– We haven’t really trained yet, but she looks really good. I don’t think anyone is left out in advance, more so than Elliot Kack and Linus Taguison. Thoms Lagerlöf says and continues:
Everyone is training today except for the sick Albion (Adimi). But it looked much better today.
‘Strange decision’
Djurgården wanted to move Saturday’s match against Varberg to 1 September due to the proximity of the match, but the competition committee refused. Sporting director Boss Anderson reacted strongly to the decision, and Lagerlöf was also disappointed.
A strange decision, we think. But we knew all along it was going to be a tight schedule and we would do what it takes to win football matches regardless of whether we play every day or not.
There is no doubt that there is a lot at stake against Apoel. Boss Anderson described the matches as “perhaps the most important in the club’s history”.
– He likes to press Boss, but that’s obviously important. Djurgården is a great, long standing association, so we’re going out in Europe. Now we have a great opportunity to do so. We’ve had great qualifying so far, but we haven’t won anything yet. We have to give the same performance and the same toughness in these matches as well. Magnus Ericsson says it would be something worth a bite.
Edvardsen suspension risks
Cypriot APOEL has not started playing the league yet, which made spotting the team difficult.
There have only been matches against a rather weak European opposition, so it’s hard to tell how they act under pressure because they totally dominated those matches. But they are very reminiscent of Rijeka, with several players with highly individual skills but probably not quite a match for each other yet, says Lagerlöf.
Victor Edvardsen has two yellow cards and risks being suspended in return if warned tomorrow.
Sometimes it’s short, we’ve talked about it. Especially before the last match with a referee who has a very high rate of cards. There will be yellow cards, says Lagerlöf, but we have to focus so that we take yellow cards when necessary, and continues:
– Obviously, we include such things in the calculations.
