Allsvenskan 2018
Malmö FF - Djurgården (1 - 0)
Match in Allsvenskan 2018
Match start: 2018-05-03 at 19:00
Venue: Eleda Stadion
Attendance: 15,728
Malmö FF faced Djurgården on Thursday evening at Eleda Stadion in front of an audience of 15,728 spectators. The referee Andreas Ekberg officiated, with Mehmet Culum and Stefan Hallberg as his assistant referees.
The match kicked off, and Djurgården was the team that started very aggressively, creating a lot of pressure on Malmö FF's defense. However, in the 20th minute, one of their players, Jonas Olsson, was correctly shown a yellow card after a heavy tackle.
Malmö FF then began to be more involved in the match, and in the 45th minute, they made their first substitution as Arnor Traustason came on for Søren Rieks.
At the beginning of the second half, Djurgården continued on the same offensive track, but in the 50th minute, Marcus Danielson received a yellow card for a foul.
Then, in the 59th minute, Malmö FF created a counterattack that allowed Carlos Strandberg to score 1-0 after a nice assist from Eric Larsson.
A passage at the 65-minute mark saw Mattias Svanberg of Malmö FF receive a yellow card, but no further goals were scored by either team in the following ten minutes.
Djurgården made two consecutive substitutions as Jesper Karlström and Haris Radetinac were replaced by Kevin Walker and Dzenis Kozica in the 66th and 68th minutes.
Malmö FF also made two consecutive substitutions, with Samuel Adrian and Egzon Binaku coming off for Fouad Bachirou and Behrang Safari in the 76th and 78th minutes.
In the 80th minute, Djurgården made their final substitution, bringing on Yura Movsisyan for Niklas Gunnarsson, but this unfortunately did not result in any more chances for them to equalize.
The match concluded with two incidents in the 90+3 minute. First, Djurgården's Jonas Olsson received a second yellow card and was sent off. Following that, referee Andreas Ekberg called the match to a close, with Malmö FF winning 1-0 after an exciting match that could have gone either way.
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)