We can talk about the Thunder Scout trio, about Kim Anderson, Julius Lindskog Anderson and the goalkeepers.
We thought we’d do it.
But instead he will be the winger and defense minister after the first final.
You might say something about what the team focused on, says Oscar Carlin when I spoke to him after the game.
Thus Ystad coach points out that not only were the media and fans fully occupied ahead of the Sweden finals with IFK Skövde’s superstar trio Matthias Helt Jepsen – Jack Thorin – Dan-Beck Hansen, Ystads IFKim Anderson, Julius Lindskog Anderson and the goalkeeper’s game. But also coaches in their analyses.
Instead, the first final ended in a very pure party when the defense chose to focus on the central players on the field.
Expert Charlie Sjöstrand at C More said he calculated that 19 shots were fired from the periphery in the second half alone.
From the third league to the last champion
Sure, Viktor Hallen has been one of the best left-handers in the series this season, but Fredrik Mostadt on the other edge of Skövde hasn’t been as good as last year.
Ystad’s two wingers, Johan Dahlin and Humpus Karlsson, are certainly not ranked among the league leaders.
This evening, Halen scored 5 goals in 6 matches, Mostadt 4/6, Dahlin 6/8 and Carlson 7/7.
It was also the outstanding duo at YIF who scored the final and decisive three goals in the 30-28 win.
Carlson is a small class in itself. The 21-year-old was the third choice on the right wing at Ystad last year and had the most relationship with the B team in the First Division.
This season, Carlson starred in second place behind Jim Anderson. But after four concussions in one year, Anderson was forced to quit his career in March. And suddenly Carlson was alone in the center and in his first final match he interfered and scored seven goals against seven, including two of the last three goals. Embarrassed!
He’s the best defender in the league
Now it wasn’t that the team put an end to all the central players in the opponent all the time. Kim Anderson was sometimes at those heights that he was still alone in this league and Jack Thorin had his shots there.
But the key to Ystad’s victory was, of course, how to neutralize them above all Matthias Helt Jepsen but also Dan Beck Hansen. When did this duo leave the game after scoring only three goals together (in only five finishes)?
Philip Steinmalm put the key to this victory.
He is the best defensive player in the league, and he trained in the famous Spanish defensive match in the first Spain match against La Rioja, then the Danish Kolding under Carlos Ortega, and most recently, before coming to Ystad this summer, at the Polish Wisla Block under Xavi Sabati.
– It is very clear that he had Spanish coaches who are good at controlling the play in defence, in the details in the defense match and putting themselves completely in front of their opponent. It’s important to Philip, says Oscar Carlin, and I don’t think he learned that in Drott.
The YIF coach is not only a fan of Stenmalm’s defensive playing on the field but also how he teaches his teammates and even important defensive details.
He is a very educational teacher in defensive play, the way he behaves in training and matches and how he controls his teammates.
Nobody can believe Kim
Kim Andersson stood in the TV studio afterwards and claimed that Skövde was still the favourite and that they themselves still counted after counting the entire playoffs and that they had nothing to lose.
Nobody believes that, right?
Ystad hasn’t counted since winning his first semi-final against Sävehof and he certainly isn’t now.
And after starting the final by winning away in the boiling arena without letting Skövde take the lead throughout the match, Kim & Co are the gold favorites now, at least in my world.
This pressure they have to live with now.