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The meeting with France will be different from many other home games at Friends Arena. Among other things, the audience is missing, and then new demands are placed on the players.
– Now you have to take responsibility yourself, says Victor Nilsson Lindelöf before the Nations League premiere.
Victor Nilsson Lindelöf. Stock Photography.
The midfielder talks about adrenaline kicks. Victor Nilsson Lindelöf, 26, says that matches played in front of crowded stands and with the soundscape that often accompanies them, can sometimes be what it takes to take a little walk and end in a good mood.
There will be no help when France awaits the Nations League premiere on Saturday.
The match, like the home game against Portugal on Tuesday, will be played without spectators, the European Football Association Uefa has decided to prevent further spread of the corona virus.
– I think everyone here in the national team has played without an audience, so they know what it is to do it. They’ve probably gotten into that and got used to how to participate in those matches. I don’t think there is any problem, says Victor Nilsson Lindelöf and finally gets to what the difference can be compared to normal conditions.
Adrenalinkickar.
– When there is an audience, you can get an adrenaline rush from the audience, they can help, he says.
– Now you have to take responsibility yourself and create it within the group. But I think we have shown it before, that we are a strong group and that there are many who take it for granted. There will be no problem.
Nilsson Lindelöf, whose vacation ended when he checked into the players’ hotel in central Stockholm, is also confident that the matches in the collection will be of the same character as the internationals from the previous competition.
– As always with the national team, we entered to win games. We know that it is a tough group and that important things are at stake. We entered with the same mentality and attitude as always.
In addition to UEFA’s decision that matches should be played without a hearing, there are also directives in the robust regulations that were sent to all federations that players must be crowned and that they may well agree to remain within the hotel walls.
– I left my video game in England, so I have to spend a lot of time with “Micke” (Mikael Lustig). We play a little card and try to pass the time. The first days went quite well but there are a few days left …
– No, it will work out. It was the same in Germany (during the Europa League play-offs with Manchester United), so I’ve been there before, says Victor Nilsson Lindelöf.
