The Gambian can look back on the first third of the series with a cheerful mind. Mjällby's success is connected to his own extremely strong spring. The goal (1–0) against Brommapojkarna at home on Strandvallen was the sixth for the season.
With that, he rose to shared leadership in the goal-scoring league.
A much more unexpected goal-scorer played on Stora Valla. There, it was a cork-out of the bottle for IFK Göteborg – a win with 3–1. Or should we say the pure ketchup effect for Tobias Heintz?
Heintz scored two full hits – the season's first – when Degerfors was overrun before the break.
A nice hit, completely perfect. It's good that we can do a first half that's good. We haven't managed that before, he says to Max.
Coach Stefan Billborn's analysis in the post-match interview with broadcasting TV channel Max about Göteborg's difficulties offensively lately:
We have had desperately hard to be sufficiently optimistic.
Discharge
During the match's first nine minutes, he saw everything he had missed during three straight losses.
+ Max Fenger played elegantly forward Heintz, who with a broadside pressed in 1–0 after six minutes.
+ Just three minutes later, Fenger (one of four on six goals in the top of the goal-scoring league) headed in 2–0 after a rapid attack.
+ Whereupon Heintz got a dream hit and sent in 3–0.
One of the questions in the pre-match talk was how IFK Göteborg's squad had handled the scandal scenes at home against Öster on Gamla Ullevi. It was then that a spectator took himself onto the pitch and attacked Sebastian Starke Hedlund in Öster.
It's not something you want to be part of, but there I think we have been sufficiently professional and dealt with it in a good way, says Billborn.
Danish Evening
In Uppsala and Borås, it was something of a Danish evening.
+ Sebastian Jörgensen saw to it with his two goals that IFK Norrköping beat Sirius with 2–1. In that match, assistant referee Anton Sjöberg hurt his foot so badly that he had to be carried out on a stretcher. For the match, it meant a total of 17 added minutes.
+ Frederik Ihler responded with a hat-trick when Elfsborg crushed Djurgården with 4–0. With that three-pointer, Elfsborg rose to new table second, on the same number of points (22) as AIK but with a better goal difference.
Mjällby tops on 23 points.
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Facts: Goal-scoring League
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6 goals: Christoffer Nyman, IFK Norrköping, Frederik Ihler, Elfsborg, Max Fenger, IFK Göteborg, Abdoulie Manneh, Mjällby, Ibrahim Diabate, Gais.
5 goals: Nicklas Røjkjær, Mjällby, Nahir Besara, Hammarby, Yannick Agnero, Halmstad, Omar Faraj, Degerfors, Sebastian Jörgensen, IFK Norrköping, Leo Walta, Sirius.
