IFK Värnamo - IFK Norrköping FK 2 - 1

Allsvenskan 2023


IFK Värnamo - IFK Norrköping FK (2 - 1)
Match in Allsvenskan 2023
Match start: 2023-10-08 at 15:00
Venue: Finnvedsvallen, Värnamo
Attendance: 2,463

At Finnvedsvallen in Värnamo, the home team IFK Värnamo faced off against visiting IFK Norrköping FK in an exciting Allsvenskan match. The 2,463 spectators had barely settled in when the first warning was issued just five minutes into the game, given to Jesper Ceesay from the visiting team.

The match was evenly contested, but it was IFK Norrköping who first broke through the opponents' defense. After 25 minutes, Isak Andri Sigurgeirsson from the visiting team scored the first goal, making it 0-1, assisted by Victor Stange Lind.

However, the home team quickly responded. In the 52nd minute, Ajdin Zeljkovic found the net, equalizing the score to 1-1, assisted by Simon Thern.

IFK Värnamo took the lead in the 70th minute with a goal from Ajdin Zeljkovic, his second of the day. The goal came thanks to an assist from Oscar Johansson Schellhas and gave the home team a 2-1 lead.

IFK Norrköping desperately tried to equalize but were unsuccessful. The match thus ended with an important victory for IFK Värnamo in the battle for placement points, now sitting in eighth place in the table. IFK Norrköping is just above them in seventh place. Referee Richard Sundell and his assistants Niclas Ivarsson and Pär Leek kept control of the match, which, despite several warnings, had only one dismissal.

Squads

IFK Värnamo

Starting squad

  • 1. Jonathan Ursin Rasheed (GK)
  • 20. Freddy Winsth (D) (C) (Off '58)
  • 25. Victor Eriksson (D)
  • 5. Victor Larsson (D)
  • 16. Albin Lohikangas (D) (Off '68)
  • 9. Oscar Johansson Schellhas (M)
  • 18. Wenderson Oliveira do Nascimento (M)
  • 22. Simon Thern (M)
  • 8. Albion Ademi (F) (Off '84)
  • 10. Ajdin Zeljkovic (F) (Off '83) (YC '76)
  • 14. Gustav Engvall (F)

Substitutions

  • 31. Hampus Gustafsson (GK)
  • 3. Viktor Bergh (In '68)
  • 6. Hampus Näsström (In '58)
  • 7. Charlie Vindehall
  • 11. Edvin Becirovic
  • 19. Marco Antonio Bustos
  • 28. Frank Junior Agyei
  • 32. Kenan Bilalovic (In '83)
  • 36. Emin Hasic (In '84)

IFK Norrköping FK

Starting squad

  • 1. Oscar Jansson (GK) (C)
  • 2. Jesper Tolinsson (D) (Off '80)
  • 4. Marco Lund Nielsen (D)
  • 24. Anton Eriksson (D) (Off '80) (YC '64)
  • 14. Yahya Kalley (M) (Off '67)
  • 21. Jesper Ceesay (M) (YC '5)
  • 25. Kevin Höög Jansson (M)
  • 20. Daniel Fritz Eid (M)
  • 10. Vito Hammershoj-Mistrati (F)
  • 19. Victor Stange Lind (F) (Off '67)
  • 8. Isak Andri Sigurgeirsson (F) (Off '67)

Substitutions

  • 32. Wille Jakobsson (GK)
  • 40. David Andersson (GK)
  • 3. Marcus Baggesen (In '67)
  • 5. Christoffer Nyman (In '67)
  • 15. Carl Björk (In '67)
  • 18. Ari Freyr Skúlason
  • 23. Maic Sema (In '80)
  • 26. Kristoffer Khazeni (In '80)
  • 28. Fritiof Hellichius

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)