Two ways to play football, two ways to approach the derby, it was two great teams who chose two fundamentally different paths and scored three goals in a vibrant spring meeting.
Or we take the judge.
Choose for yourself what you think we should talk about. Choose for yourself how you want your football in the future.
The short side of Hammarby said something nice about memories of the derby and the ways forward, the short side of the AIK was blasting black and gold, there was smoke and hundreds of other things in the air. Derby, most of all. Table rivalry, aggression, upcoming game.
Hammarby got it, of course. AIK wasn’t too interested in that.
– We accepted the match picture, like Bartosz Gerzelak Then he said.
They wanted to be compact in their mass, let Hammarby hold the ball in and around the front, in the right places. It’s up to Bajen to do any of that, with his center and pass play, his way of putting the game together on one edge and quickly switching to the other.
I love what the Allsvenskan is now, purely tactical, right?
In 2022, this series is a better learning environment than it ever has been, and that’s because the game can look very different. After a hundred years of trend football, where many have done the same (whether it’s a 4-4-2 zone or triple streaks with damn pass matches), it’s now possible for a young midfielder to play against a 4-4-2-Blåvitt chasing team. One day, another Norrköping man’s defender, Hammarby moving on the third synthetic turf and a well-organised compact AIK on the fourth.
It’s useful, it’s fun, it’s always fun.
How does AIK work?
That was a summary of it all, to be able to see two smart young talents in training approaching match plans completely differently. Grzelak’s controlled mockery against Martín Cifuente’s style of grinding – and made equal in everything except those dealing with ball possession and its aesthetics.
AIK plays soccer in a mousetrap, waiting for the opponent’s foul. Hammarby had life tied in the match, but Richard Maguar neglected the ball and snagged each other. Stefanelli Larsson, Stefanelli Bahoy 0-1.
The whole match is summed up, there is already:
AIK class in reaction, compliant – along with two explosions when the situation arises, or when the ball is stationary.
Hammarby with ball, lap after lap, search and play. Willott Swedenborg and Naher Basara After showing his foot toward the middle, the match turns against Mayckel Lahdo who was the chosen path forward, but he didn’t have enough sensitive feet to be able to seriously challenge Otieno.
This is what the duel looked like, and it continued all the way home.
How does AIK do to take out all that much without needing the ball? How can Hammarby score three goals in difficult situations against defensively strong AIK? How did Bartosz Grzelak really deal with the goalkeeping situation, taking the risk with Christopher Nordfeldt and now having to play with Janosevic? What does he say about Darijan Boyanic that he continues to put in, and miss, penalties that can ruin an entire season? Is Baggen still not bad enough to shut down matches like this? Will they be? How much does Muhannad Al-Jayzi cost now, after the best free kick goal of the year?
Very entertaining in front of Ghalian Square
All of these questions concern me more than the question of whether Christopher Carlson and his co-pilots saw an error on the decimeter scale when Gustav Ludwigson ran erratically before the 1-1 gesture. Or if he detonates the referees the wrong way when they award a penalty kick to hit the ball with Mads Wenger’s arm before the 2-2 penalty. Both were wrong, I think. Both might have been judged correctly if we used the VAR system in Swedish football.
Sneak for sure, hand most likely. Some other errors may have been corrected.
Personally, I saw a very interesting derby, where two competitors with very different ideas played 3-3 in front of the boiling arena. Jeahze free kick on the crossbar, Bessara free kick per second, Nabil Bahoui Who fought the home points so brazenly and intelligently, by never giving up, and never stopping trying
I don’t feel like I missed a five minute break to elevate the referee to the ultimate main character in a sport that shouldn’t be about him. I’ve not lacked in accurate, but unfair video decisions like the one that gave Spurs a penalty against Burnley two hours ago.
It’s live football
“The task of refereeing is very difficult, even more difficult than the work of a coach,” Marty Cefuentes winked.
Bartosz Grzelak said the judges don’t review us, so I don’t review them.
It gives me hope in sports that coaches think this way.
We scored six goals in the derby, without errors none of them would have been scored. Goalkeepers each made two pairs, the Pagen captain made one, the assistant referee made one and Sotirios Papajianopoulos led to a poorly kicked Bojanic penalty.
It’s live football. Let it remain that way forever.
