Noa Lindén

Right Back - IFK Goteborg U20
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The IFK Goteborg Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

IFK Goteborg do the business in Europe

2‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and IFK Goteborg came through the finding-out well against Dinamo Bucharest.

Match

IFK Goteborg refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 27 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings

Kolbeinn Þórðarson was immovable

32 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Elis Bishesari

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Arbnor Mucolli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nothing got past David Kruse

21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Tempers go at IFK Goteborg

August Erlingmark 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.

The terraces

IFK Goteborg supporters have found a favourite in Saidou Alioum

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Saidou Alioum has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

IFK Goteborg see off Hammarby

Three points for IFK Goteborg, 1‑0 the final word against Hammarby in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief