The game was fast paced for both sides, but much slowed down about 25 minutes into the game. Malmö FF’s midfielder Mahame Siby, recruited earlier in the summer, had to be carried out on a stretcher after injuring himself on landing after a header duel. Exactly what is injured on the 26-year-old is unclear, but Siby grabbed his hip and screamed in pain after landing.
Shortly after Siby was carried off the plane, Discovery reported that he had been taken to hospital by ambulance.
Sirius player Filip Rogic was closest to Siby when he landed and was quick to signal a break in the game. In the half-time interview in Discovery, he talked about the situation:
– It narrowed down a lot, I hope he recovers quickly.
After the end of the match, Malmö’s coach Milos Milojevic told Discovery that the injury to Mahame Siby is very serious.
– From what I’ve heard, it’s not good. I don’t want to go into details, but they say it’s very serious. I hope he is not out for the rest of the season.
Glow Moustafa Zeidan
Despite a few minutes of downtime after Siby’s injury, MFF quickly started the game and scored the first goal of the match after Moustafa Zeidan, the former Sirius player, played the ball in front of the goal and Patriot Sejdiu poked it in.
The score stood the whole half and at the beginning of the second Sirius Dennis Widgren, who was recruited from Hammarby earlier this week, went into a tackle on Moustafa Zeidan. Widgren then received his second yellow card for the match. Red card and one less man for a struggling Sirius.
Three minutes later, Zeidan was again at the center of the action as he extended Malmö’s lead to 2-0 after coolly placing the ball in from close range. After barely two Allsvenskan games played for Malmö, Zeidan had accounted for two goals and two assists.
But Zeidan wasn’t done there. After Sirius reduced the deficit via an 85th-minute penalty, which Filip Rogic put in, it was Moustafa Zeidan who played through to Patriot Sejdiu who rounded his defender and chipped in for 3-1.
With that, the match was closed, which took Malmö up to third place in the Allsvenskan. Two points ahead of AIK, but with one game more played.