The IF Elfsborg Post
Squad13 Sep 2027
The knee: Marcus Rohdén out for 70 days
70 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. IF Elfsborg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match11 Sep 2027
Frederik Ihler leads the rout of Gefle
3‑0, and Frederik Ihler took the headlines on an afternoon when everything IF Elfsborg tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Both of them Frederik Ihler's — 8.72
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Ari Sigurpálsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Frederik Ihler: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” IF Elfsborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match11 Sep 2027
IF Elfsborg end the wait against Gefle
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at IF Elfsborg
Rasmus Wikström was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Benjamin Rasmussen is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at IF Elfsborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Isherwood was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Arbër Zeneli at his very best
- Loan watch Leo Östman counts the days
- The dugout Anton Larsson has his say