Heiken storms toward the first gold svenskan.
Then Mikael Lustig was deeply impressed – despite the somewhat unknown team building in his eyes.
These are players you’ve never heard of, says the right-back.
Stockholm kings?
It’s either Djurgården, AIK or Hammarby – without Häcken.
The leaders of the series were not defeated in the Allsvenskan when they visited the capital. After the cross against Bagen last spring, they now have two straight away wins. First against Djurgården and on Wednesday evening, AIK was also sent off.
The result was rumors of an even match – 2-1 with Häcken – but the truth was that Allsvenskan’s gold-favorite took a huge hold on Friends Arena. Thus, Häcken leads Allsvenskan by eight points ahead of second place in the Hammarby table, who, however, has played one game less.
We got 57 points and we got here by playing very good football. We are growing all the time, with every match. In all stages of the game. Coach Per-Matthias Hugomo says there are nine points left to play for.
“What a feeling!”
Led by a three-man midfield with brothers Gustafsson and Mickel Rigaard, Haken occasionally outperformed Gnagit.
It’s a great feeling to be able to play a good away game. We play our game on all arenas and surfaces. We dare to play from behind and have great confidence in our ability to do so in every game. What a feeling, says Reggard.
Can you drop this now?
– Purely mathematically? yes. But I don’t think so when we do well. We will continue with the next match against Malmo and we will see what happens.
Alexander Geremjev, who ended up saying it was the least exciting struggle with John Gedetti, fills in the following:
– Really good feeling. We’re playing a really good match against AIK here at Friends. A tough and nice match we can win our way, he says and continues:
– Today we are just enjoying ourselves. You feel so proud when you put up a show like this against a team like this away.
‘Others may not have taken Häcken seriously’
Even opponents admired the league leaders. Not least veteran Michael Lustig.
– We already felt at the premiere that Häcken is a really good team. The teams that always win are the ones that deserve it, even if you can win in different ways. It’s possible that hedging has crept in all the time, although many may not have taken it seriously.
The AIK defender feels some admiration for the team building that, in his opinion, is somewhat unknown in terms of the name.
– There are players you’ve never heard of who look like millions and players who have failed overseas and done well at Häcken. So they have a good mix and their coach has done a good job.
It’s clear to Lustig that AIK has really given it all against Häcken. However, he was able to say after the loss that Hisingslaget would be happy to snatch the SM gold medal ahead of Hammarby and Djurgården.
– You might not see your worst competitor win SM gold, no.