After a shaky preseason, AIK has been parked at the top of the Allsvenskan table from the first round. During the spring season, the team had not lost a single match out of the twelve matches (seven wins and played draw in five).
Until now, in the last fight before the pause.
Away against Sirius, the unbeaten streak would come to an end, as the team was too small against the Uppsala team, which took an important win following three straight defeats.
Great frustration
AIK had difficulty creating chances and already at halftime, at the score of 0–2, the frustration was clear from AIK's team captain Sotirios Papagiannopoulos.
I don't think we're doing anything. We're not winning any balls, we're not playing the ball forward, and we're not creating anything. Then Sirius is good, he said to Max after half the match.
One of the reasons for the great anger was also that center-back Filip Benkovic had signaled for a substitution, but was made to play injured for a long time before AIK acted. Something that became costly, as he didn't quite manage to mark Sirius striker Robbie Ure at 0–2.
We made "Ben" (Benjamin Tiedemann Hansen) ready, and before he was ready and we had assessed the situation, unfortunately, it took a couple of minutes, and it cost us, says AIK's coach Mikkjal Thomassen to Max about the situation.
Lies third
The loss means that "Gnaget" will be overtaken by Hammarby before the pause, and lies third in Allsvenskan after 13 rounds. They also lose three more points to table leader Mjällby, which simultaneously beat bottom team Värnamo with 2–0.
The Blekinge team now leads Allsvenskan with three points ahead of Hammarby. The pause continues until June 28.
