Kalmar FF back in the race!

Only 6667 people were at a windy Fredriksskans to witness the top of the table clash between last seasons league champions Kalmar FF and 2008 cup winners IFK Göteborg.

Both sides have been weaked this season due to transfers and injuries and the 1st Half reflected that fact.
Kalmars more experienced side with the cleverly bullying Henke Rydström showing the way had control of events throughout the first 45 mins.
They were given a big helping hand however by Hjalmar Jonsson who managed to miss the ball completely with his attempted clearence allowing Abiola Dauda to give Kalmar the lead.

Good coaching by Olsson and Rehn at half time making a tactical change bringing on Tomas Olsson and moving Hannes Stiller up front. Olsson allowed Blåvitt to keep the ball for longer sequences and made Rydström and Ericsson work a lot harder centralt. However IFK never really created any clear chances and when they had Sebastian Eriksson sent off for filming (2nd yellow card) it looked all over. Then in the 76th minute a good cross from Theodor Bjarnason put  Hannes Stiller in for the equalizer.

Nanne had already substituted Dauda with Santos and that turned out to be the decisive factor with Santos heading in the winner in the 86th min.

Daniel Mendes was outstanding out wide on the left. Kalmar however have both Rydström and Nouri suspended next game and even Mendes could be doubtful after looking like he pulled a muscle late on.

All in all a fair result. AIK are probably smiling right now but there´s a long way to go yet.