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The rain fell on Gamla Ullevi. It looked like an English football night. Astrit Selmani’s record.
– Today may look like a League One or The Championship match. I’m not complaining about that!
It was just a screw on the long bolts.
IFK Gothenburg against Varbergs Bois. Important points at stake. For the local team, not least, the Blue and Whites are still in the last absolute battle.
Varberg’s Bois got off to a better start: the super-dangerous Selmani lunged forward into one inning and was about to head for the header.
IFK Gothenburg, however, finished the first half stronger. Then it was also 1-0, through a corner. English …
Tobias Sana sent, a completely unmarked August Erlingmark could dash forward and head the ball towards the nearest center.
– We stop and fall asleep. Then there was a fantastic nod from Erlingmark. If he gets 100 more, I don’t think he’ll score any more goals, Bois de Varberg coach Joakim Persson said at the press conference.
IFK Gothenburg the same goes for Roland Nilsson:
– It was a trained variant. We have a group of Ferran (Sibyl), Linda (Breding) and Stefan (Remnér) rubbing their genitals!
He looked at Joakim Persson.
– And “Agge” puts ten out of ten!
In any case, the goal was August Erlingmark’s third of the season. And that was enough for a Blue and White victory.
Varbergs Bois made four (!) Swings at halftime and landed a decent forcing at the end. IFK Gothenburg, which showed a line of five defenders during the final 20 minutes, held firm.
No goal came closer than a shot from Robin Tranberg saved by Giannis Anestis.
1–0.
– Victory means a lot, says Erlingmark.
So the goal? If you had a similar situation again, would you put zero out of a hundred or ten out of ten then?
– Maybe the brochures? No, I’d say two out of ten. It was not that difficult. So the meeting was good.
Erlingmark laughs.
You were very unmarked, did that surprise you?
– Maybe a little. It was stupid from “Jocke” (Joakim Persson) to give me that space.
How worried was he at the end when Varbergs Bois pressed?
– We not only wanted to protect the goal, but unfortunately it is easy for that to happen when you lead. Especially when you have the background we have here at home this year. Where we have played good football in several games, but they have scored goals in the last second. Now it was finally good to win.
The victory was IFK Gothenburg’s only second at home in the 2020 Allsvenskan, it should be included in the recap.
It was also extremely heavy. As Helsingborgs IF (2-3 against Mjällby AIF) and Kalmar FF (0-4 against Malmö FF) lost, the Blue and Whites put a small distance between themselves and the qualifying spot.
It is three points less now. There are seven games left.
– Now we feel a sense of security that our way of playing works. The basics are in place. Now it’s just a matter of getting the details so we can be even better offensively, says August Erlingmark.
Facts: this is how IFK Gothenburg started
(4–4–2): Giannis Anestis – Alexander Jallow, Mattias Bjärsmyr, André Calisir, Yahya Kalley (Emil Holm, 84) – Tobias Sana, Yusuf, Erlingmark, Patrik Karlsson Lagemyr (Kristopher Da Graca, 70) – Pontus Wernbloom, Alexander Farnerud (Sargon Abraham, 74)
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