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Djurgården’s coach Kim Bergstrand is not known to be a brilliant Nisse at press conferences at the Allsvenskan.
Nor was he at the press conference prior to the meeting with Cluj.
Bergstrand was as angry and scathing as only he can be.
He asked some reporters counter-questions, snorted at certain questions and was generally questioning.
I guess that’s Bergstrand’s way of joining us to a game.
Maybe to get something out of her nervousness.
Because it wouldn’t have been strange if he was a little nervous.
Only two games played at Djurgården and a place in the group stage of the Europa League.
And even if Cluj is a fairly worthy opponent, the winner of the match at Tele2 arena on Thursday night would receive KuPS from Finland.
A draw in other words.
Cluj was an advance favorite and Djurgården was coming off a rather pale effort at FC Europa last time out. A Djurgården without several injured key players.
Still, the team got up well and made one of their best first halves this season.
There was only one problem.
Judge Bartosz Frankowski of Poland.
It was an almost parodic effort on the part of the Pole, who beforehand seemed to have decided to judge against Djurgården.
Cluj basically amplified, filmed, and screamed every situation, and got just about everything. A Cluj more than cynical then.
It still took until the end of the first half until Kim Bergstrand rightly lost it.
When Edward Chilufya missed a free kick, the Djurgården coach ran up to the wing and screamed. “You have to go to bed Chilli !!”
A situation that said a lot about the refereeing effort tonight.
When the team went into halftime, he had even more liking for Djurgården. The players must have felt they could take this and thus have a leg in a group game.
But then, in the 55th minute, the situation came that sent Djurgården out of the Europa League qualifying phase.
Cluj receives a free kick, again after a Cluj player filmed. The free kick was accepted in the arc and the 1-0 was also enough to face the Romanians.
Sour for Djurgården, but in a match like this you have to have the margins with you. It is not possible to win if the team does not have that little luck. And above all, he cannot have the verdicts against him the way Djurgården did.
Now, of course, you can’t just blame the judge. Djurgården, of course, should have been able to take advantage of more scoring chances. I don’t understand why Emir Kujovic, who seems to be trapped in Kim and Tolle’s freezer, didn’t go in earlier.
And why didn’t they bet on a receipt before? It’s inconceivable that Kim and Tolle won’t put Kujovic on until there are barely ten minutes left.
Even if it was a forward knockdown for Djurgården, what will be recorded in this match is the parody of the Polish referee and Djurgården’s bitter departure.
It will be years before the club has such a good chance of reaching the group stage of the Europa League again.
