"We are not good enough right now, and you won’t win like that," striker Jacob Bergström said in Expressen’s match broadcast.
Melwin Berg scored the only goal in the 11th minute, securing Trollhättan a place in the group stage after the turn of the year.
Mjällby won the Swedish Championship last year and lifted the cup this spring after beating Hammarby in the final.
Now the reality is different. With eight games left in the Allsvenskan (Sweden’s top football league), Mjällby are only three points ahead of Degerfors in the relegation play-off place. At the same time, the team from Blekinge will play league matches in the Conference League.
We said we would use this match to start building (confidence) and take that with us into the Allsvenskan and Europe. Now I don’t know if there’s much to take with us, Bergström says.
