Published 2024-04-13 16.51
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HÄLLEVIK/STOCKHOLM. Mads Thychosen scored a strange own goal.
It snuffed out AIK’s victory against Mjällby.
The match ended 1–1.
Halfway into the second, Herman Johansson found Jacob Bergström right in front of the goal.
Then Kristoffer Nordfeldt made a very strong reflex save.
But to no avail. Because the ball bounced, via the crossbar, towards the goal again – and when both Abdihakim Ali and Mads Thychosen tried to get it away, it caught first one, then the other and finally in.
Nordfeldt could only watch.
– You don’t get happy in that second. But that’s what happens. Although of course it is heavy. We led the game and had great control, I think, says the goalkeeper.
“You’ve been wrong before”
– Too many cooks, Anders Andersson said in Discovery about the goal – which meant 1-1 and was the last of the match.
Despite the fact that three AIK players were behind him on the ball, Bergström thought he should be noted for it.
– I deserve it, he says, and when Andersson objects, he snaps the striker back.
– You have been wrong before, says Bergström.
When then?
– Every Malmö match, he says to the former MFF player and laughs.
“Was in no man’s land”
When AIK opened the scoring, it was after a goalkeeping miss.
A quarter into the second, Rui Modesto hit a pass that was a little too long, a little too wide behind the back line.
Despite heading towards the corner flag, Noel Törnqvist in the Mjällby goal chose to leave the penalty area and move towards the ball.
But Ioannis Pittas was ahead – and found the net from a rather tight angle.
Heavy for Törnqvist, who before this afternoon’s game was alone in the series with a clean sheet.
– I misjudged it. It went off much faster than I thought, then there was a hard bounce and then he got ahead of me and then I was in no man’s land. Sad, says Törnqvist.
Reverse luck for Pittas.
The goal was his first of the season, but since the Cypriot joined last summer, no one in the Allsvenskan has scored more than his ten. The Sirius duo Joakim Persson and (now sold) Wessam Abou Ali are the closest with eight each.
After three rounds, Mjällby has seven points and AIK five.
