The ESC coach after the stomach ailment: "Could have made things better"

It became a turbulent match for Örebro away against Sirius yesterday. Several players should have vomited before the match started, as Örebro's head coach Axel Kjäll told in an interview with NA after the match.

Sirius teammate Jakob Johansson was critical of not knowing anything and told TT that players would never have been let into the stadium if he had known.

For SVT Sport, Axel Kjäll now tells us what happened.

- We ate a joint dinner in Örebro and in connection with the departure we filled in the self-assessment form and no one played then had any symptoms. When we got to the stadium and should start warming up, a player expresses that he is feeling a little bad and that he had already done so on the bus. In connection with the warm-up, there are some players who get acid rebounds and after the warm-up, someone is vomiting. Many people showed the same type of symptoms and our assessment is that they had received food poisoning, says Kjäll.

How are the players doing today?

- The players I have been able to talk to today are all well. I also talked to everyone in the bus home and they felt a little empty in the stomach then after losing energy but otherwise felt good already.

Sirius was critical that you did not report that the players were ill. Do you think you have done something wrong?

- What is important to press is that when we filled out the forms, no one has any symptoms but it is a very fast process. But it is clear that we need to look at how we would have acted in this unique situation and that we must do internally and how the communication was and who would have received information. But our assessment there and then was that it was about food poisoning. I myself raised the point at the press conference because we have no ambition to darken.

If the Swedish Elite Ball will act on the matter and punish Örebro in some way, Kjäll does not want to speculate.

- We have great respect for everything about corona and try to follow everything that we have been allocated. We must look ahead now and focus on whether we could have done something different, then we will see if it means anything in the long run, says Axel Kjäll.