Östersund - Malmö FF 2 - 3

Allsvenskan 2018


Östersund - Malmö FF (2 - 3)
Match in Allsvenskan 2018
Match start: 2018-09-15 at 18:00
Venue: Jämtkraft Arena
Attendance: 5,631

At Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund and Malmö FF faced off in an important Allsvenskan match on Saturday evening. Given the league standings, both teams went out to win the match.

Östersund player Tesfaldet Tekie received an early warning from referee Johan Hamlin in the sixth minute. Shortly after, Östersund's Ludvig Fritzson scored the first goal of the match in the ninth minute. Hosam Aiesh scored the second goal for Östersund in the fifteenth minute with an assist from Tekie.

In the thirty-sixth minute, Malmö FF reduced the deficit when Søren Rieks scored the team's first goal with a nice assist from Markus Rosenberg. Malmö FF then equalized to 2-2 when Marcus Antonsson scored, assisted by Rieks.

Malmö FF strengthened their lead in the fifty-seventh minute when Rieks scored again, this time assisted by Rosenberg. After that, Östersund tried to level the score, but Malmö’s defense managed to hold off their attacks.

In the final minutes of the match, both teams made substitutions in an attempt to change the outcome. Neither Östersund nor Malmö managed to score again, and the match ended 3-2 in Malmö's favor.

With this important victory, Malmö FF moved up to third place in the table, while Östersund remains in fifth place in Allsvenskan.

Squads

Östersund

Starting squad

  • 1. Aly Keita (GK)
  • 24. Ronald Mukiibi (D) (YC '71)
  • 6. Douglas Bergqvist (D)
  • 2. Tom Pettersson (D) (C)
  • 19. Dennis Widgren (D) (Off '67)
  • 17. Curtis Edwards (M)
  • 5. Rewan Amin (M)
  • 3. Tesfaldet Tekie (M) (Off '77) (YC '6)
  • 10. Hosam Aiesh (F)
  • 99. Dino Islamovic (F) (Off '83)
  • 13. Ludvig Fritzson (F)

Substitutions

  • 7. Frank Arhin (In '77)
  • 8. Jamie Ryan Hopcutt (In '83)
  • 11. Henrik Bellman
  • 18. Andreas Andersson
  • 23. Samuel Laryea Mensiro
  • 32. Patrick Kpozo (In '67)
  • 88. Jerell Anthony Sellars

Malmö FF

Starting squad

  • 27. Johan Dahlin (GK)
  • 2. Eric Larsson (D) (Off '79)
  • 24. Lasse Ladegaard Nielsen (D)
  • 17. Rasmus Bengtsson (D)
  • 4. Behrang Safari (D)
  • 14. Anders Bleg Christiansen (M)
  • 7. Fouad Bachirou (M)
  • 6. Oscar Lewicki (M) (YC '90+3)
  • 5. Søren Rieks (M)
  • 9. Markus Rosenberg (F) (C) (YC '60)
  • 23. Marcus Antonsson (F) (Off '58)

Substitutions

  • 1. Walter Viitala (GK)
  • 3. Egzon Binaku
  • 8. Arnor Traustason (In '58)
  • 18. Romain Gall
  • 20. Bonke Innocent
  • 26. Andreas Aalen Vindheim (In '79) (YC '85)
  • 31. Franz Brorsson

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)