BP took the points, and third place is wobbling
BP 3–1 Malmö FF Dam at Grimsta IP on Sunday, in the 20th round of Damallsvenskan (1). Your team is still third, but that cushion just got thinner.
Louise Lillbäck made it 1–0 on 27 minutes, Johanna Svedberg made it 2–0 on 66, and Frida Thörnqvist finished it on 87. Izzy D'Aquila got Malmö FF Dam's goal (5). BP set a club points record with the win (7).
Same sloppy marking at both ends
Fotbollskanalen's Ella Lindvall pointed at the same problem in both teams: poor marking on the first goals of the game (2).
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Thörnqvist was not hiding from it. "Helt okej. Jag tycker ändå att vi ligger rätt och täpper till ytorna för dem och har ändå några bra kontringslägen," she said (1). Basically: the shape was there, the cutting edge was not.
Valfridsson wanted the basics to hold
Jonas Valfridsson was clear about the plan going in. "Vi kom från ett bra resultat i Europa och pratade mycket inför matchen att vi skulle fortsätta trycka och stå fast vid våra grundprinciper," he said (5).
It did not hold. Malmö FF Dam are out of the title race, and now the job is to protect third and the final European spot (3).
AIK are coming from below
Lindvall's warning is the one that matters most now. "Kommer Malmö FF klara av att behålla tredjeplatsen? Det har sett så ut under säsongen. Men det är ett hungrigt AIK som trycker på underifrån," she wrote (2). Häcken and Hammarby are in the same conversation (2).
Frejd Pålsson gets his first U21 call
Malte Frejd Pålsson has been called up to Sweden's U21 squad for the first time. The 20-year-old centre-back is in for the Poland game on 30 September and North Macedonia on 5 October (4). A first senior-level national team nod for the defender.
Jansson: the goal is gold next season
Pontus Jansson has missed big chunks of this season through injury, but he says the body is coming back. "Jag känner mig mycket bättre i form," he told Sydsvenskan (6).
And he is not aiming small. "Jag tror och hoppas att vi har som målsättning att vinna guld. Varför skulle vi inte kunna göra det?" he said (6).
