@DandalBs brings us his weekly wrap of all the goings on in the Swedish women’s football scene with news from the national team camp, round six of the Damallsvenskan and Elitettan plus the latest transfer speculation.
NATIONAL TEAM NEWS:
Norwegian coronavirus travel restrictions might prevent the Sweden v Norway friendly taking place on 10th June. It will have no impact on Sweden’s home game with Australia.
Sweden and Linköping’s veteran defender Nilla Fischer has announced that she is not available to be selected for her country’s Olympic squad. She and her wife are expecting their second child in July. “It would have been fun to play at another Olympic Games, but this is more important” said Fischer.
She added that this does not necessarily mean that she has played her last national team match. Fischer’s absence from the Olympic team means that both she and Linda Sembrant, who were key central defensive players for Sweden in the 2019 World Cup will be missing from the squad for Tokyo.
DAMALLSVENSKAN:
Hammarby took the honours in the Stockholm derby with a 3-2 win over Djurgården. Madelen Janogy gave Hammarby the lead on seven minutes, but less than a minute later, Elizabeth Addo grabbed a dramatic equaliser. Just after the break, Emma Jansson put Hammarby back ahead but Hayley Dowd levelled matters. With eight minutes left, Jansson struck her second to seal the points.
BK Häcken repeated their recent victory over Eskilstuna United with a 3-0 success in the Damallsvenskan. Jojanna Rytting Kaneryd’s strike and two own goals were the difference. If the defeat was not bad enough for Eskilstuna, their key midfielder Halimatu Ayinde was stretchered off the pitch 10 minutes into the 2nd half with worrying looking knee injury. Häcken also suffered injury concerns when their international forward Pauline Hammarlund suffered a knee injury which has now been confirmed as an ACL tear.
Örebro demolished Växjö 4-1 and the game was realistically all over just after the half hour mark as goals from Jenna Hellstrom and Karin Lundin (2) set the home side on their way. Emmi Alanen’s effort with twenty five minutes to go was wiped out when Dessislava Dupuy grabbed Örebro’s fourth.
AIK won another unexpected point when they gained an impressive 1-1 draw at Kristianstad Amanda Edgren put the home side ahead with Nora Rönnfors levelling within three minutes. Good goalkeeping from Milla-Maj Majasaari played a big role for AIK in earning a point.
Rosengård recorded their sixth win in six games this season with a 1-0 success over Piteå. Caroline Seger scored the only goal. Good goalkeeping from Piteå’s Guro Pettersen, including saving a penalty-kick, kept the score down. Rosengård are now five points clear of second placed BK Häcken.
Finally, Linköping drew 0-0 with Vittsjö.
Round Seven Fixtures:
Växjö v Linköping
AIK v Rosengård
Hammarby v Kristianstads
Eskilstuna United v Vittsjö
Piteå v Djurgården
Örebro v BK Häcken
ELITETTAN
The battle of the top two produced a quite incredible outcome. Second placed Umeå IK pulled off a stunning 4-0 thrashing of IK Uppsala. Umeå were on the front foot from the very start and Pink Herreros Ossorio put them ahead after just three minutes. The home side’s dominance was further asserted when Henna-Riikka Honkanen made it 2-0 20 minutes later. Just after the break, the Finnish striker grabbed her second with Olivia Holm completing the rout with 23 minutes to go. The result puts Umeå top of the table on goal difference. Equally delighted by the result were Älvsjö AIK FF whose 1-0 win over IFK Norrköping meant that they are now only a single point behind the top two. The side from just outside Stockholm, who only avoided relegation from the Elitettan on the final day of last season have made a glorious start. Victoria Heikfolk scored their winner directly from a corner with 69 minutes played. Near the bottom, Borgeby FK put in a great effort in their game with Alingsås FC United in their bid to win their first match of the season. Tilde Olsson gave Borgeby an early lead before three rapid fire goals in six minutes from Olivia Sultan, Alma Öberg and Felicia De Feo put Alingsås in the driving seat. Taylor Townsend and another from Sultan made it 5-1 – but then Borgeby mounted a comeback as Rebecka Persson and Nova Karlsson both scored in less than sixty seconds of each other. With a quarter of an hour left, things got dramatic before Alingsås ended up 5-3 winners.
Round Six Results: Mallbackens IF Sunne 0-0 IFK Kalmar, Umeå IK 4-0 IK Uppsala, Älvsjö AIK FF 1-0 IFK Norrköping, Borgeby FK 3-5 Alingsås FC United, IF Brommapojkarna 1-1 Lidköpings FK, Jitex Mölndal 2-1 Bollstanäs SK, Morön BK 3-0 Sundsvalls DFF.
Round Seven Fixtures: Lidköpings FK v Jitex Mölndal, Mallbackens IF Sunne v Umeå IK, Sundsvalls DFF v Älvsjö AIK FF, Bollstanäs SK v Alingsås FC United, IK Uppsala v Borgeby FK, IFK Norrköping v Morön BK, IFK Kalmar v IF Brommapojkarna.
NEWS ROUND-UP:
There are unconfirmed reports that Kosovare Asllani’s agent Arash Bayat is in Italy to negotiate personal terms with Juventus. Bayat comments that “it’s yet too early to make any comments.”
A couple of weeks ago we reported that Barclays FA Womens’ Super League side Everton had been linked with Rosengård’s young national team players Hanna Bennison, Nathalie Björn and Anna Anvegård. There are now unconfirmed reports that Manchester City are also showing interest in some of the trio. Rosengård boss Therese Sjögran doesn’t want to comment as long as there are no bids. It could be noted that none of these players have made more than minor contributions to Rosengård’s successful season opening. Björn and Anvegård, just coming back from injury, have only had a few minutes of action and Bennison is a regular second half substitute.
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