A Pia Sundhage65 -year -old Swedish coach, she didn't like the attitude of Norwegian soccer players last night when, with the scoreboard in favor, they spent wasting time. The coach says he didn't see him as a clean play. “I am very disappointed,” he said in reference to the defeat and those bad arts of his opponent.
He praised the great game of his players, which especially in the first half were far superior to Norway. “We played very well in attack and generated occasions. It would have been very different if we would have tied at least,” he said in allusion to that penalty in favor that he did not arrive for an offside and that he could have meant the final 2-2.
Like the Swiss fans, who expressed his dissatisfaction with the Scandinavians with boos, Sindhage also disliked the obvious temptation of his rivals to gain time. There were several stops because of players who complain about cramps and a double substitution in the 64th minute that interrupted the game for almost two minutes.
Sundhage expressed his anger in the SVT television network, saying: “I am an old woman who likes clean play.” At the press conference, when asked about the declaration in English, she refused to comment, even after repeated questions. “No, I don't want to talk about it.”
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Although the Romanian Pasu referee granted eight minutes of time added in the second part, Sundhage considered it insufficient after eight substitutions after the break, a pause for hydration and two long interruptions of the VAR, something that the coach clearly communicated to the fourth arbitrator, the Spanish Marta Huerta de Haza, after the final beep.
