The IFK Goteborg Herald
Match5 May 2027
IFK Goteborg through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Orebro, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Alfons Borén runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 May 2027
Cruel end for Orebro as IFK Goteborg pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. IFK Goteborg scored in the 119th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings10 May 2027
The afternoon belonged to Brice Wembangomo
A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout10 May 2027
Ramon Pascal Lundqvist gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout10 May 2027
Half-satisfied: Dejan Olsen on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Felix Eriksson shuts the door
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout10 May 2027
Issaka Seidu dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout10 May 2027
David Kruse does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
In brief
- Match IFK Goteborg and AIK cancel each other out
- Market The David Kruse story refuses to die
- Squad Marcus Guidetti makes his debut at 17