Tottenham’s Lucas Bergvall is currently away with the Sweden squad as they prepare for World Cup qualifiers against Switzerland and Kosovo. Wednesday has seen the 19-year-old’s turn to speak to the media.
His first chat was about Thomas Frank changing his position a little at Tottenham. He was also asked about Jon Dahl Tomasson appearing reluctant to give him minutes for Sweden.
In a fresh chat carried by Aftonbladet, the Tottenham player was asked about his corner routine against Brighton in September. Trying to evade his marker, the Spurs midfielder ran off the pitch around the back of the goals before returning.
He’s since been told by a referee that he could have received a yellow card for the effort. Bergvall has made clear it won’t be happening again, and explained he has no idea what inspired the effort.
Quoted by the Swedish newspaper, the Tottenham player said: “I don’t even know what I did. In retrospect I found out that I could have gotten a yellow card for it, so it probably wasn’t that smart. But now I know for the future. Some referee told me that a few games later. I was surprised, but it’s not something I’d do again.”
Yasin Ayari, his Sweden teammate, just so happened to be the marker, and Bergvall added: “Yasin was probably just surprised, not many people have done that before. I came across a good area there, but then I saw the referee blow the whistle. I could have scored there.”
It’s not something Tottenham fans will be seeing again.