Allsvenskan 2017
Halmstad - Djurgården (0 - 1)
Match in Allsvenskan 2017
Match start: 2017-04-27 at 19:00
Venue: Örjans Vall
Attendance: 4,690
Djurgården won a hard-fought away match against Halmstad with a score of 0-1 on Thursday evening. The match started off slowly at times, but it quickly became clear that both teams wanted to win and would put everything on the line to achieve that.
The match began with a yellow card for Djurgården's Othman El Kabir in the 14th minute and one for Halmstad's Sead Haksabanovic in the 19th minute. The situation became even tenser when Halmstad's Ivo Dominik Pekalski and Marcus Klingenberg Mathisen received yellow cards in the dying moments of the first half, in the 42nd and 44th minutes, respectively.
The second half started with a substitution from Djurgården, where Niklas Gunnarsson replaced Jonas Olsson, and this was not the only change made on the field that evening. Aliou Badji came on for Kerim Mrabti in the 71st minute, and Halmstad's Gabriel Gudmundsson replaced Nikolai Alho in the 77th minute. Additionally, both teams made another substitution in the 81st minute: Jonathan Augustinsson switched places with Othman El Kabir for Djurgården while Kosuke Kinoshita came on for Fredrik Olsson in Halmstad’s lineup.
After a penalty was awarded to Djurgården in the 85th minute, Magnus Eriksson scored, giving them the lead at 0-1 and securing the winning goal for the evening. Gustav Engvall received a yellow card in the final minutes of the match, followed by Djurgården defenders Andreas Isaksson and Kim Källström, who also received yellow cards.
After the match, it turned out that the result affected their positions in the league table, with Djurgården now sitting in 7th place and Halmstad in 14th. Overall, it was a tough but exciting match where Djurgården managed to secure the win at the end and take home three points.
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)