Lagerbäck was together with Tommy Söderberg national team captain when the men's national team was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the European Championship in Portugal 2004 after a penalty shootout against the Netherlands. Then Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Olof Mellberg missed two of Blågult's six penalties in the elimination.
On Thursday evening, Filippa Angeldahl, Magdalena Eriksson, Jennifer Falk, Sofia Jakobsson and Smilla Holmberg missed five of Sweden's seven penalties against England.
”Will sting”
Normally in football teams, no one gets beheaded for missing a penalty in a penalty shootout. But everyone knows how it is. If something is said, it's probably in a positive direction. You try to support those who feel very disappointed, says Lars Lagerbäck.
Then it will probably sting. I know that from those who missed in Portugal. It probably sat for a while.
SVT's expert and former national team star Lotta Schelin has criticized the women's national team's national team captain Peter Gerhardsson for sending the 18-year-old championship debutant Holmberg as the penalty shooter whose miss became decisive.
”Not just her”
The important thing here is that she gets support from the gang now, both players and leaders, and that's what I think she got, says Lagerbäck and continues:
The advantage is also that it was not just her who missed. It was some of the most experienced players who also missed.
Lagerbäck does not think that Gerhardsson should have done anything differently in terms of substitutions and choice of penalty shooters.
From the outside, I think he coaches completely right.
