Allsvenskan 2014
IFK Norrköping FK - Halmstads BK (1 - 2)
Match in Allsvenskan 2014
Match start: 2014-08-18 at 19:00
Venue: Platinumcars Arena
Attendance: 5,569
At Platinumcars Arena, IFK Norrköping FK faced Halmstads BK in an intense Allsvenskan match. With an attendance of 5,569 spectators and under the direction of referee Johan Hamlin, the match began at 19:00 on Monday evening.
After 36 minutes, IFK Norrköping's Alhaji Kamara received a yellow card, which would be followed by several more cautions for both teams.
Just before halftime, Halmstads BK created a chance, and Joseph Baffoe put the ball in the net to make it 0-1. The assist came from Johan Blomberg.
In the second half, both teams continued to play aggressively, and after 51 minutes, Halmstad's Fredrik Liverstam received a yellow card. After 61 minutes, it was Norrköping's Nikola Tkalcic's turn to get a yellow card, followed by Andreas Johansson's yellow card for Norrköping after 71 minutes.
After 72 minutes, Halmstad substituted in Kristoffer Fagercrantz to strengthen their offense. Shortly thereafter, in the 76th minute, Norrköping managed to equalize through Emir Kujovic, with an assist from Christopher Rasmus Nilsson Telo.
However, Halmstad was not finished, and in the 88th minute, Mikael Boman scored with an assist from Kristinn Steindórsson, netting the decisive second goal of the match. Norrköping desperately tried to equalize, but time ran out.
After the match, it was Halmstads BK that celebrated their victory, which meant they climbed one position to twelfth in the table. Norrköping, on the other hand, found themselves in fourteenth place in the league.
GK = Goalkeeper, D = Defender, M = Midfielder, F = Forward, C = Captain, Off = Substituted off, In = Substituted in, YC = Booked (Yellow card), RC = Sent off (Red card)