“Stress in the Grass: Blåvitt’s Dahlberg Blunder Raises Questions About AIK Match”

Stress in the grass – stress among the players?

It looked like that when Blåvitt’s Pontus Dahlberg was responsible for a blunder in the cross match against AIK.

– It will just be a pancake, says Dahlberg to Sportbladet.

After Beyoncé’s two concerts last week, a new lawn was laid at the Friends arena. Unfortunately, the grass had suffered from “heat stress”, and looked anything but five plus – when AIK cruised in the anxiety meeting against Blåvitt.

Maybe the stress rubbed off on the players?

Three heavy blows

After Blåvitt’s early lead through Sebastian Ohlsson, disaster struck. Pontus Dahlberg in IFK’s box was going to clear, but the ball caught Gustav Svensson in the chest and bounced into his own goal.

– It is really weak from Dahlberg. He can’t blame the turf either. I don’t know why he gets stressed? It’s a big, big mistake, says Discovery expert Johan Arneng.

– It will be unfortunate, a bit of miscommunication between me and Gurra. Then I’ll lift it over and then it will just be a pancake. But that happens. It happens even to the best, so it’s just a matter of moving on, says Dahlberg to Sportbladet.

Sebastian Eriksson injured

What did you say to each other afterwards?

– We discussed the situation and I said that I can do better. I get to wear it.

Gustav Svensson thinks the miss was unlikely.

– That doesn’t happen. Should you try to do it again, I don’t even think it would have worked. That he should hit me right in the chest and it bounces over him and into the goal, we wouldn’t have done that if we had tried 10,000 times, he says.

Just before the break, the next blow came for IFK when Sebastian Eriksson had to step off with a feared calf injury.

The hat-trick was completed with bangs when Rui Modesto broke in from the right and calmly rolled in 2-1 with his left foot – in the 53rd minute.

But it would turn around.

Ohlsson two-goal scorer

A corner landed in front of Sebastian Ohlsson’s feet and the right-winger thumped home the equalizer – with 20 minutes remaining.

The match ended 2–2. With the cross, both teams are on six points, after eight rounds played, in 12th and 13th place.