Is this the year? Is Häcken harmonious enough to keep Alexander Jeremejeff? Is Häcken safe enough to lure Simon Gustafson home? Is Haken strong enough to get gold?
As dreams soared toward the sky of Hising, a blue-striped steamer chariot came to visit.
The rise goes before the fall.
Back to 2012 again. Häcken leads the chain, Häcken chases gold, Häcken is probably the best ever, and…
A hundred thousand crowns question.
The yellow-skinned people who were on the flight could still wake up in cold sweat at night shouting “MAREK!” Right up in the air, dreaming of race dreams and special goals, the dismissal and the team that created an identity that you can definitely be the best, but winning was something other people dealt with.
Winning in 2022 is much more difficult than it was in 2012, but here we are. A patch on the door, a harmony on Heising Island, a foreign professional (Simon Gustafson) who comes home because he’s cool, a bowler (Alex Geremjev) who picks a golden opportunity before the professional adventure.
It was also shown here
Djurgården is now visiting, and it’s a test for two golden ambitions.
Did Dave know to play winning football away from home? Does Häcken have the required stiffness?
There is a lot that separates clubs, but what Lagerlöf/Bergstrand and Per-Matthias Hugmo (teams know a lot about what they can do with a club in crisis) have shown is how to implement the idea of a safe game without a starting distance, regardless of the number of new players.
It is also shown here.
Djurgården completely dominated with high pressing, rebounding and a highly ranked offensive game. I think they have improved on that this year, not picking first but taking another turn with the ball before sending it into the penalty area. Now the ball went from edge to edge, having been 4-3-3 low from Häcken, they pressed and played around Häcken’s penalty area, finding two decent chances (Victor Edvardsen and Gustav Wikheim converted the ball from the same post), but they got little of a lot. Maybe they put a lot of energy into play, and forgot that there was a need for options inside the box as well.
Will he stay in Heisingen?
The condition improved immediately after the fracture, but by that time they had already received a wasp sting.
Jeremiah’s next pass, an accurate pass, to Turgut, at Berggren (in his last game in Bravida?), a penalty kick and Jerrimjeff’s fifteenth goal in fourteen games. Will he stay in Heisingen?
The most important thing in the first half was that Häcken, of course, had chances to get ahead and threaten – but that Djurgården was so loyal, ambitious and skillful that he managed to close out everything except this penalty case. The difference is what they want: running strong, direct, powerful and with a frighteningly strong team (Joel Asuro and Magnus Ericsson started on the bench now). A team that can go to Rojevica in a Croatian port and achieve a certain victory, then alternate two days later in an away match against the league leaders away from home.
strong leaves?
Gotac.
Ten minutes into the second they replaced captain Magnus Ericsson and star player Joel Asuro, and ten minutes later they sent in national team defender Pierre Bengtsson and golden captain Marcus Danielson.
They gave more ball, but replaced it with meanness and good old traffic in front of the box.
1–1 in a corner difference (useless Emmanuel Banda), 2-1 when Elias Anderson pushed in a second ball. Häcken plays a bit more, but many park keepers are in the offensive penalty area.
For Häcken, it’s this kind of situation, this kind of challenge, that determines whether they have to wake up in a cold sweat in another ten years. Djurgården showed off his strength, flopped, replaced his Allsvenskan superstars and drove again, away from home again. Heiken has a goal scorer, a very skilful midfield, and a hard-to-read Ali Youssef to replace him when Oscar Odnas dries up. But golden teams are not only sculpted with quality, they are transformed step by step, on evenings like these.
We got a hint
They had half an hour against Djurgarden more withdrawn. The ball is getting closer and closer to the teams goal, but this goal was protected by a whole group of defenders. Bergstrand/Lagerlöf substituted every central defender they could think of, including Tajali Mild and Willie Jomison, hitting or heading just wide of every ball that came close to the goal area. 2-1 to Djurgården, the sixth coffee cake in a row.
Is the squad tough enough, strong enough to fight for? Is Hacken sarcastic enough to kick out Echoes of 2012?
We don’t have answers here. But of course we got a hint.
