lifting. 2–2 against Diggerforce, 1–1 against Kalmar F, 1–1 against Hammarby.
If Häcken has what it takes in gold?
It is a draw.
Read Norwegian poetry, draw on Jon Stuart Mill, chart the first team across the North, make Alex Jeremjeff the new top scorer, give waning Mikkel Rygaard a fresh spring, prepare at least two Gustafsons and let the team run strong with yoga. Draw in the crowd, build something new, fill the stands with black and yellow, and record the club anthem.
That’s one thing.
Changing the identity, the established image, is another thing.
BK Hacken Do everything right, the only thing left is to convince everyone and everyone for themselves that they have that thing called hardness and heaviness, which terrifies.
100 center backs in the injury list
An opportunity better than this is hard to imagine. I got stuck in a long line of cars in the sunshine towards Hisingsbron’s car, for a moment I thought everyone was going to the game. Leading the series hedge, Hammarby came here with two quarterbacks who had to introduce themselves to each other before the warm-up: indoor quarterback Lorette Sadiko, and Nathaniel Adje, a teenage talent from the HTFF. A hundred defensive players are on the injury list or suspended, and now the devil in me sees Häcken 2022 as something other than a good team.
It’s fun to see Häcken play football, but it shouldn’t be fun to face Häcken.
A few seconds later, Tobias Sana finds Jeremiah’s pass, and seconds later the beautiful young player Ibrahim Sadik finishes up again. Welcome to the island, Hamrabi.
Häcken is the funniest football team in Allsvenskan, because their idea is to win matches. trivial? of course not. They play a 4-3-3 that looks like a 4-3-3, with free reins and no brakes. It all goes through Samuel Gustafson, who usually balances out on his own but often wants to go at the same time as his brother Simon (well until he lost interest in the match) and the great Rygaard. Occasionally, they throw six players into the opponent’s back line, and then the whole sea rushes in. They don’t intend to be smarter, more efficient or heavier than the teams they are up against – they want to be better.
And they often are.
Had to connect eleven start
In the face of all this, Hamrabi – unlike his historical identity – appeared as an adult, cautious, brilliant, and well-balanced team defensively. Ten minutes later they pulled out Häcken with a can opener, Darijan Bojanic took his meter toward a wide-open midfield, Naher Basara They took the ball to and from Joel Nelson, then Gustav Ludwigson scored 1-0 while Peter Abrahamson and Thomas Totland thought about who would do something about it.
The entire attack was a board illustrating Häcken’s flaws, with Häcken hitting the crossbar twice and the post once, and making four warnings. None of them lack style. Hedge was breathing in offensive football, but their defensive game was about rushing home after losing the ball. Sometimes it goes wrong – and sometimes it ends up being wrongly judged in its judgments, Per-Matthias Hogmo was right to question Victor Wolff’s post-match decision.
All teams face their challenges in the entire Swedish autumn. For Marti Cifuentes it was about the starting lineup, his first five options in central defense were missing and Darijan Bojanic was sick before the match and couldn’t finish playing. Throughout the season, the Catalan talked about his strong team, and here it stretched to breaking point. Adjei impressed in Allsvenskan’s debut it was approx Excellent, and at the end Albert Demerol came along and did a balance jump which was great.
Mobilizing the team, they fell and counted on counter-attacks. Hedging did everything else. Høgmo’s challenge this fall is to get his players to never stop believing that they can be better, or even better. Now they stand with SM’s first historic gold at arm’s length, each match weighing a ton – is it more difficult then?
“It’s a good and important question,” Hogmo admitted. But we want to develop this way of playing.
The main idea of hedging
You have to admire that approach, and his team kept moving forward after the break. And in front of the increasingly bloated Hammarby, they did not reach the same number of chances as in the first half, but got more and more annoyed, while Bagen got tired and tired. Bojanić had to give up, Sadko got an injury, Sandberg had a muscle spasm, David Concha lost his shoe… Finally the blow came.
Christopher Lund caressed the ball, pulled a long cross, and Blair Turgot nodded, ending poor Adji’s perfect day. The nineteen-year-old nodded his own goal, and Naher Basara missed the opportunity to save him when he missed an open goal after five minutes of injury time. Fair but Plettinga 1–1, conceding in his debut. Half of the Hammarby team was there to console Adji after the final whistle.
Hammarby needed three points and a healthy team to truly believe in SM gold. Häcken has now played three games in a row, and will go to Varberg with four players suspended.
It is not enough to be good, they must be the best.
They are aware of this. This is their entire basic idea.