Kopparbergs / Göteborg gold drinks after penalty shootout drama | Aftonbladet

Of: Henrik Lundgren

Published: October 11, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.
Updated: Oct 11, 2020 at 5:59 p.m.

GOTHENBURG. There are four games left, four points ahead.

The gold of the Swedish Championship is Gothenburg. OR?

– No, no, there are twelve points left to play, so that is not clear anywhere, says Julia Zigiotti Olme after 3-0 against Uppsala.

The 3-0 against the last Uppsala was dramatic in three minutes. From 29 to 32, when Gothenburg received two penalties. Wild Böe Risa missed the first (phantom rescue by national team goalkeeper Emma Holmgren). Julia Zigiotti Olme put the second, as if she was doing nothing but hitting penalties.

– In fact, I haven’t beaten a penalty in a match since the Gothia Cup 2010. So it was a while ago, he says and smiles.

The midfielder sent Holmgren in one direction and the ball in the other. More drama before punishment. Böe Risa’s failure was the third of three possible, and the Norwegian midfielder did not want to try to get a “valid fourth time”.

– It was not clear who would hit him. Vilde didn’t want to do it, so I felt like I had to go ahead and put it in there.

“It is not clear anywhere”

After the penalty shootout, it was all over in Gothenburg. Pauline Hammarlund made it 2-0 in the 44th and Stina Blackstenius 3-0 after the break. More drama in Malmö, and then the golden battle. After Rosengård’s most surprising home loss to Kristianstad, Gothenburg now leads the series with four points, with four games to play again.

Time to start planning the club’s first gold celebration of all time, in other words.

– No, no, it’s not clear anywhere. It is important that we only focus on the next match, that we always have a match in mind and don’t think about what Rosengård is doing. It is clear that I know how they are doing and today I am a little more happy that they lost and lost points. Obvious. But when it comes to a match, it should be here and now, focus on earning three points.

Gothenburg has Örebro (h), Växjö (b), Linköping (b) and Vittsjö (h) left to face. For the coaching duo Jörgen Ericson and Mats Gren, it is important to avoid all the gold rush that Rosengård seems to have suffered in recent weeks.

– It’s just a matter of continuing as before. We have been through this, two years in a row we have been second. But now it seems we have the equipment for it. I hope we learned our lesson the last time we went to Rosengård, just when it mattered most. Now we still have the opportunity again and I think now we are stronger mentally, says Ericson.

“The only thing we can influence”

How do you mentally work to avoid the gold rush?

– We’re only looking at next week. Örebro at home, that’s the only thing we can influence.

Do you avoid talking about not talking about SM Gold …?

– Haha no. It has been said from the beginning that we should go for the gold. But we have a real robe on our nose towards Rosengård, then when we had the right opportunity. And that disappointment there felt too good. Now we have a chance again, and we don’t want to experience that shit again. We do not want to be seconds again.

So…?

– You should not be afraid of losing, but now it is only a matter of winning.

Throughout the season, Gothenburg has had the help of a sports psychologist. Hope they help more now.

– He usually comes and talks to us once a month. It helps us prepare for thoughts that may arise, pressure from outside, pressure from ourselves. It is clear that we work mentally and it seems that it has helped us a lot, says Zigiotti Olme.

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Published: October 11, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.

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