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After the corona season 2020, the audience is back in the stands again.
Thus, the results have begun to normalize.
Like Djurgården-Sirius tonight: 4-0 in a half, order and order, thank you for that.
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The only thing that was normal with last year’s Allsvenskan was that Malmö FF was the best. MFF also reached 60 points, what is usually called “gold cut” (in a 16-team series it is not possible to win under 60 points).
Often even more is required, for example the representation season 2019 when Djurgården won by 66 points, Malmö and Hammarby shaded by 65, table four AIK scraped together 62 sticks.
This type of points harvest testifies to the fact that the best (richest) and largest (public) associations did the job in the majority of the matches, especially at home.
Should be a one
Matches like the one tonight, when Djurgården meets Sirius, ska be one on the coupon.
Predictable? Absolutely.
Boring? Not at all.
To be preferred over last year’s results raffle? Definitely.
If the results are too strange, the series can not be taken seriously. It will be, like last year, a training feeling throughout the business. The matches not only can stop anyway, they ended anyway too.
Plot after MFF
After Malmö FF no one came. Then came Elfsborg and Häcken on 51 and 49 points respectively. That would have barely been enough for a sixth place in 2019 (!). Last year, it was all the way to the European qualifiers.
None of the big clubs from Stockholm reached over 50 points, yes AIK did not even get over 40. And IFK Gothenburg barely scraped together over 30 points.
You hear yourself – it was all fucking weird everything. The worst season in a hundred years, type.
2021 also started with empty stands, but now the fans are back. It is heard in the stands and it begins to appear in the table. At the time of writing, the eight best and largest associations are in places 1-8. Big8 – the eight strongest economies – are where they should be.
In the just concluded round, Malmö, Hammarby, AIK, IFK Gothenburg, Elfsborg, Häcken and Djurgården won their matches. Only IFK Norrköping lost, but they lost on the other hand against a Häcken who after the change of coach Andreas Alm out, Per-Mathias Högmo in performs as you can expect from Big8 club again.
… But the peels then?
– Do you not miss peels then? That’s what’s part of the charm of sports, when small beats big? someone might be wondering.
Absolutely, I do not mind if a Helsingborg, a Kalmar, an Östersund and more stand up from time to time. My point is it must not be too strange, not the whole sea storms, not training match character for an entire season like last year.
And I do not buy that the whole Allsvenskan would be predictable even if individual matches are. For God’s sake, the series is the opposite of predictable. Here are eight clubs that have a chance at the title in the years Malmö FF lends it for various reasons.
Big8 will be 1-8 and they will (possibly with a few exceptions) be 1-8 this year, but exactly which top-eight place they end up in is completely impossible to know. It’s an incredible uncertainty.
That is why the Allsvenskan is a rare fun series to bet on. Nobody knows, everyone is always wrong, the only thing that is carved in stone is that Malmö comes worst third. In addition, perhaps – perhaps – even that order is about to change little by little if you look at what, for example, Djurgården has going on with its super-Bosse economy.
Change of power?
– Change of power, as some stolle put it this spring, which was a little too early for that feeling, perhaps.
In all cases.
Even at the bottom, things are starting to look like they should. Östersunds FK and Varbergs Bois find it difficult to keep up. Sad for their fans of course, but logical and reasonable for everyone else. ÖFK has lived on borrowed time for a long time, and Varberg must thank the Chinese for hitting the pandemic in the very year they made it to the top series. Thus, they got two seasons in the Allsvenskan, at least.
On the other hand, Örebro SK should climb up to the qualifiers now that they are tensing the jumbo muscles with signings like Nahir Besara and Jiloan Hamad.
Money and the audience rule
Djurgården drove over Sirius 5-1 at Tele2 Arena, and it was 4-0 already at the break. Not really strange at all. When a decimated Sirius, without his center-back Jospeh Colley and goalkeeper David Mitov Nilsson, meets a revenge-hungry, crowd-pumping and more or less ordinary Djurgården on his fast plastic mat, it should separate a couple, three balls.
There is really no need for a deeper analysis than that. Djurgården simply did what they paid for: performed 100 percent against a poorer opponent, especially in the first half.
I have a hard time thinking that it says so much about Sirius, or even that they accounted for a particularly bad effort over 90 minutes. They did what they could, especially in the second half when Djurgården’s onslaught deceived. It is not possible to demand from a team that they should surpass themselves at a given time in a sport where the money basically controls the results over time.
The money and the audience, the corona pandemic has taught us.
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