Copenhagen on Axnér's critique: "Based on uncertainty"

The anterior cruciate ligament and the inner ligament came off when Olivia Mellegård landed crookedly in this weekend's match with the club team Copenhagen. That made Sweden's national team captain, Tomas Axnér, angry.

- I was actually over and watched Copenhagen last week, I saw her play. I also saw what schedule they had with three matches in four days. Plus other training with a fairly thin squad. There will be more victims, he told SVT Sport yesterday.

Copenhagen's coach has taken note of the criticism but does not agree with Axnér.

"Since we reunited, we have had a strong focus on reconstruction and we have adapted the training after the players have not been in a hall and have not trained handball for a long period," Claus Mogensen told SVT Sport.

Mogensen admits that they had three matches in four days but that they went around on many different players to spread the load.

- It was not like regular matches where a few play very much. We have distributed the playing time and Olivia has not played full matches in the matches she played. In addition, there were 52 hours between two of the matches, which provides a good opportunity for recovery.

He also believes that the situation where Mellegård injured his knee is such a situation where the injury had occurred regardless of training or match load.

- It is a classic cruciate ligament situation. It is unfortunate that this happens to Olivia, but I do not think that the blame should be placed on us, says Mogensen, who believes that it is difficult to prevent cruciate ligament injuries.

- Regardless of what you do and how you prevent it, there will be more cruciate ligament injuries throughout Europe.