The pressure on Luleå won over Frölunda

Linus Omark with three points

Frolunda Luliya gasped into her neck.

But Norrbottinning persevered and won 4-2 after Linus Omark’s scoring display.

– Going out looking pale like us costs us the match, says Frölunda coach Roger Runeberg on TV4 Play.

Luleå got off to a great start at home against Frölunda.

Jesper Celgren made it 1-0 seven minutes later with an assist from Linus Omark. Two minutes later, Omark remained in front and extended the lead when he fired the ball into the net through Lasse Johansson.

Thus, the star striker has scored in three consecutive matches after previously going scoreless in 13 consecutive matches.

– If you gain self-confidence, it happens automatically, says Linus Omark.

Two convicts

Shortly afterwards, the home team thought they had made it 3-0.

David Lilja shot the ball into the net but also touched Frölunda’s Lasse Johansson in the same action. But there was no goal.

The referees quickly exploded and ruled the goal off the ice. After a few minutes of video review, the decision stood, prompting loud booing from the home crowd in Norrbotten.

At the start of the middle term, Lulea again scored a disallowed goal when Oscar Eklund was deemed to have interfered with Lasse Johansson when Marcus Hardegaard fired the puck into the net.

But at the end of the second period, Marcus Hardegaard scored in a similar fashion – and this time it was approved.

Frölunda pressure

But Frölunda will give the match a lot of tension in the third period. First, Linus Oberg put the ball in the net and just under eight minutes before, Max Freberg took care of a weak pass from Nikola Pasic and made it 3-2.

However, the push didn’t go all the way.

Jonas Berglund made the final score 4-2 into the empty goal cage.

Ronberg is upset

Frölunda coach Roger Runeberg was upset afterwards and thought the team’s poor first period had cost the team the match.

– He was pale. I don’t know, I can barely find the words to describe it. If you want to come here in Luleå and win, you have to be ready from the first clash, cutting and passing. We stand and watch them in the first half and they go out 0-2. “They almost deserve another goal,” Runeberg says.