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Four rounds remain drowned out, just under a month of “one game at a time” thinking and expert speculation about how it will all end.
So we know.
And I have to honestly say that it’s starting to feel like it.
Unlike other big cities in our sprawling country, series trophies are now relatively rare after winning first division soccer matches in the city of Gothenburg.
On the men’s side, we have to go back to 2007 when IFK Gothenburg in front of 40,000 in Ullevi drowned Trelleborg in one attack wave after another and finally managed to save the club’s first Swedish Championship trophy since 1996.
Since then, 13 years have passed and the city’s awards cabinets have been restocked at the same rate as where Arsenal’s Premier League dents are kept.
We are certainly not spoiled.
Speak up for Gothenburg
And we are certainly eager to relive the feeling that one of the city’s soccer teams is actually the best in Sweden.
But don’t feel pressure, GFC!
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Friend of the order, you may be wondering what I was worried about at the beginning of the text, but the truth is that since Swedish football began to chase female champions in 1973, no club has been from Gothenburg (and here I remind you that Jitex continues being from Mölndal).
There are a number of things that speak of Gothenburg FC’s advantage in the competition with Rosengård.
First, the number of points is understood. With four rounds remaining, GFC is left to play four points ahead of the reigning Swedish champions on the table, this Scanian soccer giant who for a couple of months felt self-described as a champion club.
Following the comfortable victory over Gothenburg in Malmö, there was possibly a feeling of invincibility, perhaps also a certain arrogance and then a lack of humility.
First Örebro, then the rest
Gothenburg was in a similar position after eleven rounds played. Then the team of Mats Grens and Jörgen Ericson topped the series with three points. Two rounds later, the relationship was the opposite, and the Scanians with a three-point lead.
I would point this out as a factor that speaks for Gothenburg at the moment.
Even if something can happen, Gothenburg has already felt the mental slip that comes with a lost golden position.
The players are determined not to put themselves in that situation again.
My own view was that Gothenburg needed to win the rest of the games after their 0-3 loss to Rosengård in August.
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That was not true.
Rosengård has only won two points in the last three games and lost everything called self-confidence.
It came unexpectedly, but it gives Gothenburg FC a chance to celebrate more than “just” cup titles.
However, don’t think that players and leaders charge anything up front.
After visiting the team’s training Thursday, the matter is clear.
It is Örebro who applies.
Nothing else.
Not yet.
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