The Halmstad Courier
Boardroom6 Sep 2038
Halmstad spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Match4 Sep 2038
Sabri Kondo wins it after the whistle should have gone
97 minutes played. Sabri Kondo found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and IFK Goteborg went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings6 Sep 2038
Both of them Sabri Kondo's — 9.09
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad6 Sep 2038
A fracture rules Martin Olsson out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Halmstad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Sep 2038
12 seasons of Malte Persson
298 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Halmstad know what they have.
Squad6 Sep 2038
Patrick Timber keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Halmstad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market6 Sep 2038
Sabri Kondo wants more than Halmstad are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad6 Sep 2038
Vanja Šare in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Halmstad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match4 Sep 2038
Sabri Kondo sends Halmstad past IFK Goteborg
It finished 3‑2, and it was Sabri Kondo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Halmstad.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Oliver Kapsimalis at his very best
- Player ratings Aaron Centurión runs at them all day
- Player ratings The cruellest goal, and it is Oscar Lustig's