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The Allsvenskan 2020 is a series without particularly clear contours. The same applies to many games, perhaps AIK versus IFK Gothenburg more than anyone else, a kind of outlined crescendo in the year of Swedish football.
At least that’s what it looked like when you watched this match a couple of weeks ago. But now there is a common thread between AIK’s achievements. The decision to give the coaching job to Bartosz Grzelak had the desired effect with the good help of a lot of intense hires. Grzelak has great challenges ahead, the AIK needs to find a way to sustainability in terms of results and restructure the balance of its squad, but Grzelak has managed to overcome his first obstacle in Friends. The relegation threat is far away, the AIK can think about 2021 and the big question: which team will play the Allsvenskan in the future.
For IFK Gothenburg, on the other hand, the situation is becoming increasingly serious, both in the short and long term.
The fight for a fully Swedish contract seems confusing and now new energy must emerge from within. The change of manager has not accelerated the team, nor have the signings of club icons Pontus Wernbloom and Mattias Bjärsmyr. Even as the team is creeping onto safe ground, large and long-lasting question marks about direction and working methods have returned after a couple of years of absence.
Understand that Roland Nilsson seems to question
Of course, it was easy to occasionally find things to criticize between 2018 and 2020, but even more difficult to accuse Kamratgården’s sports management of ambiguity. Everyone could see by what means they were trying to advance, successful or unsuccessful.
One reason for that clarity was communication, another was the logic behind many decisions. For a couple of years, players and coaches, not only Poya Asbaghi but also Ferran Sibila, have been recruited along the same lines: to achieve the desired style of play. As a club, IFK Gothenburg had first identified how to do things before deciding who would do it.
This year’s renewal of the Blue and White team follows something else, and I personally think the impulsive crisis package is sinister. The new composition seems to have come out of desperation and the effects are absent. Pontus Wernbloom, Mattias Bjärsmyr and Jakob Johansson are all players with individual abilities, but they have been installed in a team where their abilities do not seem to be their own. It has its reasons. With Asbaghi gone, the head coach became Roland Nilsson. It will do one thing in the short term and another in the long term. He has a team with some skills, but is indirectly asked to use players with completely different ones.
Nilsson, like many others, seems questionable. I understand why.
What IFK Gothenburg is he holding in his arms?
In terms of gameplay
What you usually get from that kind of uncertainty is groping.
This is also the IFK of Gothenburg, against the AIK it became clearer. At times you can turn around your trained passing patterns and your ability to dominate ball possession centrally, at others you are hampered by new tactical directives and new players who simply work better in a different kind of football. Instead of a more direct adaptation of the game, which resulted in three billion draws, they ended up splitting the game.
Against AIK, he gave an effortless effort. We saw a first half that can actually be described in the same way. AIK had the upper hand, but as with everything this Allsvenskan season, it didn’t mean anyone was happy.
“We lead, but it’s not much more than that,” sighed scorer Filip Rogic as autumn darkness descended on Solna.
The second half continued in the same spirit until Henok Goitom scored 2-0. AIK marched to victory, IFK Gothenburg went round in circles. All attempts to force disappeared into thin air.
Both clubs meet for a winter evaluation. There are several common points on the agenda. At both AIK and IFK Gothenburg, there are older players who are thinking about what the body can handle next spring, young players who don’t know if they were part of the problem or the 2020 solution, and coaches who want to know under what conditions. they can start to make their mark.
For AIK, the outcome of the crisis management this summer has offered a moment of calm and an opportunity for reflection. For IFK Gothenburg, the need for solutions is growing, but the problems seem to increase with each passing day.
