Svanbäck decided it, and your team did not answer
Malmö FF 0–1 BK Häcken at Eleda Stadion on Sunday. Adrian Svanbäck scored the only goal on 52 minutes and Häcken went home with the three points (12)(15).
Your team started well and then lost the game. Gaute Helstrup did not dress it up: "Vi börjar matchen fint men tappar initiativet. Vi har en dålig struktur defensivt" (12).
That is a seventh-placed side now. 36 points, 24 played, +4. Six points off fourth with six games left (1).
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Elfsborg away on Friday, 19:00.
Christiansen says the lob was onside
Anders Christiansen thought he had equalised with ten minutes left. His long lob over Etrit Berisha was ruled out for offside (2)(13).
"Jag är onside," the captain said afterwards (2).
Whether it was or not, it is not going in the record. 0–1 stands.
Helstrup wants VAR. The members do not.
Helstrup came out for video referees after the Häcken calls, and he knows he is going against his own club's member decision to oppose VAR (3)(5)(11).
"Vi måste tåla att vara oense," he said (3). Gustafsson agrees with him (8).
His argument is more correct decisions and a preventive effect on holding and shirt-pulling in the box (8).
Christiansen has written off fourth
The captain is not doing the maths on the league any more. He says the race for fourth "varit borta sedan Djurgården" (4).
Six points, six games. Your captain has stopped counting them.
Cup gold or a big sale, Flinck says
Johan Flinck's read after the Häcken loss: fourth place is gone and the cup is the route to Europe, otherwise Malmö FF need major sales to avoid a bad 2027 (7)(14).
That is the stakes for the rest of this season.
Sundgren finally back, contract running out
Sundgren made his debut after nearly a year out injured, an academy full-back getting on the pitch at last (6).
His contract expires this winter.
No net against Hammarby on 1 November
Malmö FF were refused leave to appeal the police conditions, so there was no net in front of the standing section against Häcken (9).
It can be put up ahead of the Hammarby game on 1 November (9).
