Malmo. A dream can quickly turn into a nightmare.
Suddenly, a double meeting against a team from Luxembourg in the European League qualification round became fateful for Malmö FF.
Peace work or deepening the crisis?
Malmo FF Of course enter as a clear candidate against Diddeleng.
But they did it against Vikingur and Zalgiris too…
The draw for the next stage of the European qualifiers on Tuesday was described as the dream equivalent of the Swedish national team.
If he ousts MFF Diddeleng, they will at least be ready for the group stage in the Conference League, but get a chance to enter the European League through a playoff against Turkey’s Sivasspor. Definitely affordable to be a playoff in EL, maybe even a lottery dream.
The biggest failure of the first decade of the twenty-first century
But if Malmö loses to Diddeleng, and I mention here again what it looked like against Vikingur and how it went against Zalgiris, Lech Poznan will probably wait in the play-off for the Conference League where the Poles will of course knock out Vikingur in their playoffs.
If the MFF was first sent by a Lithuanian team and then drowned by the Luxembourg team, then you can’t enter as the best candidate against the Polish champions with Jesper Karlstrom and Mikael Isaac on the team (even if Lech started this season really weak).
Suddenly, the dream lottery turned into a nightmare.
Then the MFF could miss European matches entirely this fall, despite having had a chance in three different qualifiers. If going out against Zaligris, and especially the way it happened, is the club’s biggest failure since losing to Cork, it will be an even bigger failure – the biggest failure of the 2000s, since relegation to Super One in 1999.
By the way, Zalgiris: 0-5 against Bodo / Glimt yesterday…
Now, of course, we shouldn’t get ahead of events. I mostly wanted to show the significance of this double encounter with Diddeleng and what could be a positive turning point.
As the MFF defeated Diddeleng, they achieved the second of three major goals of the year: the European Games this fall (the other two goals being of course the Gold Cup and winning the Allsvenskan race again).
Calm work or exacerbate the crisis
It will also give practical peace and after that …
1) … you have a (affordable) bonus opportunity to get into the European League, the tournament in which a club of MFF caliber must participate.
2).
3) …can the process of hiring a new coach be allowed to take as long as it takes.
It could also mean that Andreas Jorgesson is suddenly sitting in a pretty good seat in MFF country after having to cover a lot of shots to recruit Milojevic – or due to the Serb being expelled, it depends a little on who you ask.
But if the MFF commits another fiasco against Diddeleng, Georgeson will not be able to stay even as interim coach. Then the MFF would have to push for a new training change and possibly a new temporary solution.
And can Jorgson then return to the athletic director’s chair as if nothing had happened, like? Will he get this authorization?
Yes, he answered himself when I asked him yesterday.
It is possible. But even so, there’s a lot at stake for MFF and Georgson in the Europa League qualifying round against a team from Luxembourg: peace of mind or exacerbation of the crisis.
