Allsvenskan 2015
Hammarby - IF Elfsborg (0 - 0)
Match in Allsvenskan 2015
Match start: 2015-08-09 at 17:30
Venue: Tele2 Arena
Attendance: 21,165
Hammarby and IF Elfsborg met in an important match on Sunday at Tele2 Arena in front of an audience of 21,165 spectators. Referee Andreas Ekberg officiated the match alongside assistant referees Mehmet Culum and Björn Lindroth.
The match was a close and intense affair with both teams creating several chances, but neither managed to find the back of the net. The first half was relatively uneventful, but IF Elfsborg came closest to taking the lead when Jon Jönsson received a yellow card in the eighteenth minute. Birkir Mar Saevarsson, playing for Hammarby, also received a yellow card in the thirty-first minute.
The second half was more eventful and both teams made substitutions in an attempt to find the right combination. IF Elfsborg's Per Frick was replaced by Viktor Prodell in the sixty-sixth minute, while Hammarby's Fredrik Torsteinbö was substituted for Jan Gunnar Solli in the sixty-ninth minute. IF Elfsborg then took off Arber Zeneli for Simon Lundevall in the seventy-fourth minute.
Hammarby also made two substitutions later in the match, with Måns Söderqvist being replaced by Amadaiya Rennie in the eighty-third minute and Imad Khalili coming off for Oliver Silverholt in the eighty-fifth minute. Tension in the match increased when Niklas Gunnarsson and Simon Hedlund from IF Elfsborg received yellow cards near the end of the match.
Despite several chances from both teams, no goals were scored and the match ended in a draw with a score of 0 - 0. It was an intense and well-played match, but neither team could separate themselves, and both had to settle for one point each.
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)