Two colors, one faith.
Farnamo?
No, AIK can no longer win the matches they have to win.
What do you remember from November 2018?
I think it depends a little on who you ask. AIK He was in Kalmar then, and he got SM gold. A few miles from Småland choked IFK Varnamo Down in the third degree.
Four years later, IFK went to the capital to take control, with “God on their side” according to a sign in the far section. Over 20,000 in Friends, sunbathing over the stands, during the intermission, AIK’s pre-season hockey men are served.
Striker Axel Wiemenborn is asked what kind of AIK team this year is.
– The team wants to play hockey.
Good start, though.
I actually don’t know how bad AIK wants to play football on Sundays in particular. Covid in the team, trembling of the North Macedonian penalty kick in the legs, sluggishness in the team, jitters in the ranks, heavy pressure on Bartosz Grzelak and quick signs that Djurgården and Malmö FF have jumped on the bandwagon.
A practical site, in almost all respects. Grzelak took turns minimally, relying on – for example – Bilal Hussain and Sebastian Larsson for another role (Thunder’s talent Jesper Sesay is healthy and well, he didn’t even make the team), and tried to inject some energy with Amar Abdurrahman Ahmed and Vincent. thill
Forward, tired aik?
Not much.
Sebastian Larsson squandered three short passes before the break, Bilal Hussain devoted 90 percent of his energy to tracking the drifts of a midfield midfield, and the game unfolded according to very easy-to-read patterns. Christopher Nordfeldt started in Eric Otieno, Thiel crossed and Joe Mendes was allowed to overlap – but in the attacking area there was a huge gap with no weight or creativity. Ahmed is good at handling the ball, but mostly the wrong way and off target, and sometimes I forget Benjamin Kempioca was actually there.
This is nothing new in AIK from Jordan Larsson, problems getting into the area where you are burning. What’s new now are fatigue, injuries (Alex Milosevic is back, Nabil El-Bahawi and John Gedetti entered after the break), doubts, and above all illnesses.
Of course, IFK Värnamo knew all that, they didn’t need to defend super synchronicity or aggressively, you just had to sink into the house and stand upright. When the opportunity arose, Joe Mendes pushed himself away, and after a moment Marcos Antonson managed to push another Antonson goal. 0-1 at home, against Varnamo, and only a last-second shot from Yasin Ayari (Scooby savior) saved Ike from the hurricanes.
A great team that plays a European role can handle it because they have a healthy squad. AIK is lame, Grzelak runs some of his starters down. The main players are the oldest in the Allsvenskan, and they are starting to fall apart.
Photo for frankness: Collins Sichenje tries to finish a 40-meter-high stock reel.
Frustration picture: John Gedetti came in, got a disallowed goal due to tripping over Netinho and shouting blue at the assistant referee.
Gedti missed a warning, but the warning signs were elsewhere. If you meet IFK Värnamo, then you should, for example, keep an eye on certain players. Bilal Hussein was watching Magashi, and Joe Mendes forgot to watch Marcos Antonson, who scored ten goals in the Allsvenskan, when Netinho sent in a cross in the next attack. Small foul against a top scorer, 2-1 for IFK.
This is where AIK stands now.
How important is Christopher Nordfeldt’s penalty save in Skopje? The simple answer is that it was very important.
AIK needs that money, they’ve invested heavily in capital to succeed here and now, they’ve been doing it for a while, and it won’t be a bonus if John Guidetti goes home and takes the team to Europe and beyond – it’s a requirement that the business must integrate.
1-2 against IFK Värnamo is not enough then. With Nabil El-Bahawi, John Guidetti and (perhaps mostly) Eric Ring on the field, they got heavier around the goal, and when Ring finally hit a Mikael Lustig cross into the net, it was a fair bonus after AIK’s best attack. match.
2-2 against the well-organised, intelligent and brave Kim Helberg IFK? Is this good enough?
Hardly for a team that wants to keep up all the way, it barely delivers the kind of energy that charges a war on two fronts. Mikael Lustig continued to scold the referees all the way into the players lane, even the usually super-accurate Gerzelak lashed out at the referees, but the disallowed goal isn’t a big deal for AIK.
They have put themselves in a position where they have to win, even against teams that have God on their side. And right now, you often wonder how they’re going to go another week.
Are they a team that wants to play football? Can they even take it?
