Malmö FF U21 won the group after beating Landskrona BoIS 4–3
Your U21/reserve side won the Ligacupen Elit Södra title on Tuesday afternoon. Malmö FF 4–3 Landskrona BoIS, and BoIS led three times before MFF came back to take it (16). The win took MFF past Helsingborgs IF at the top of the table, and with it a place in the national playoffs (16) (4).
Coach Robin Asterhed was straight about how he used the game: "We did a good performance. We were the better team for fairly long spells. We chose to treat the match as our training and involved almost every player" (2) (14) (16).
Rosengren wants calm, and a title in 2027
Otto Rosengren scored the winner against Kalmar FF and then said out loud what a lot of you have been thinking. "I don't know how many coaches I've had since I came to Malmö, but it's a fair few. It's new voices and new ideas the whole time, plus a lot of player turnover" (2) (6).
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He wants the current staff to stay. "I hope we can find continuity with the coaches we have now" (2). And he set the target himself: SM-guld 2027 (6). MFF are sixth after 23 games, 18 points behind leaders IK Sirius (6).
Three attackers can play together, Helstrup says
Gaute Helstrup confirmed Sead Haksabanovic, Anders Christiansen and Mayckel Lahdo can all start at once. Christiansen is sold on the newest of them: "Yes, for sure. I was surprised, I watched him a bit in the Danish league and had some idea" (7) (15).
Anders Christiansen's future is up in the air
His contract runs out after the season, and the club's new strategy makes a renewal far from certain (1) (10) (11). Chairman Zlatko Rihter spelled out the thinking: "It's an important criterion, though not the only one. But of course we want our players on the pitch. We've taken some criticism for too many of the important players not being available in recent seasons" (1).
Christiansen is 36.
Olsen dragged you over the line
Robin Olsen was named player of the match in the 1–0 win over Kalmar FF (9). He had to be good. Kalmar hit the frame three times, Vilmer Tyrén twice off the crossbar (5) (12).
Rosengren did not dress it up: "It wasn't our best performance and we got away with it, they created the best chances while Robin made a huge game" (2) (6) (7). Kalmar coach Toni Koskela's view: "Once again we put in a good performance and create a lot of chances" (12) (13).
Season tickets may come with a use requirement
Too many season ticket holders are not turning up at Eleda Stadion, and the club is looking at tying renewal to actually using the ticket (3). Acting CEO Niklas Söderström: "It would be unwise not to look at it" (3).
Häcken at home on Sunday, then Elfsborg away
BK Häcken visit Eleda Stadion on Sunday, October 18, 16:30 CEST (Allsvenskan). After that it is IF Elfsborg away on Friday, October 23, 19:00 CEST.
