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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 36, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Ekong, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award goes to Pontus Jansson, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Andrej Đurić
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The one thing Diego García could not do
Shots: 12, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match29 Aug 2026
Malmo FF make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pontus Jansson 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 9.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.84 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diego García, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Gefle, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 38. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Malmo FF, 2‑0 the final word against Hammarby in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market24 Aug 2026
Gefle are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Malmo FF will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jovan Milosavljević, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Robin Olsen decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 35, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Malmo FF
0‑0 against Gefle, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market17 Aug 2026
Gefle come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pontus Jansson 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Taha Ali
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Pontus Jansson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market10 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Robin Olsen and Malmo FF agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pontus Jansson 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
Hammarby come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pontus Jansson and Malmo FF agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match1 Aug 2026
AIK made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Diego García 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Oscar Sjöstrand again, and this time the name on the line is Falkenberg. Malmo FF are listening politely and promising nothing.