Behind FC Rosengård and BK Häcken, this year’s damallsvenska is a wasp nest without its equal. Only four points differentiate between third and eighth place.
BK Häcken has a goal difference of a breathtaking 51-10.
A large part of it is spelled Stina Blackstenius and we also find her in the top of the shooting league. With her 17 goals and 8 assists, she leads not only the shooting league but also the assist league.
The national team star averages more than one goal or assist point per match. In addition, she has contributed to almost 50 percent of the team’s goals.
A noticeable development curve if you compare with when she came home from Montpellier 2019 (then in Linköping) and the first season in Häcken 2020.
In 2019, she scored nine goals and four assists when Linköping finished fifth.
The golden year 2020 was she only third best scorer in BK Häcken with his eight goals and four assists. Pauline Hammarlund and Rebecka Blomqvist were ahead.
– Why it has not come loose before is probably partly about self-confidence and finding a team that plays football that suits her. As a nine, you may have an extra need for just that, says the football expert at Discovery + and also the former football player Irma Helin to DN.
Stina Blackstenius’ contract expires after this year’s Champions League game. The contract was due to expire in mid-November, but she chose to sign one short-term contract to be able to participate in Häcken’s last three group games.
She has previously said that the previous stay abroad in France was tough. It was a completely new environment and a new language. In the same interview, she said that a new adventure abroad attracts as she feels more ready now.
– You always have a high level, but not everyone gets it out. She uses her strengths in a way that means that she usually gets the maximum performance, says Irma Helin.
– She is not the player with the best technique or the best passing foot, but she always gets the best out of herself. An incredible level of players.
– Kristianstad’s Josefine Rybrink tries to catch the ball from Linköping’s Uchenna Kanu.
Photo: Mia Eriksson / SPP
In second place in the shooting league is Nigerian Uchenna Kanu. After her hat trick away against Hammarby, she stands up on 12 goals scored.
DN reported about that match and Uchenna Kanu convinced with his speed and his cool finish. There are not many in damallsvenskan who can reach her maximum speed.
– I must admit that I did not have such a good view of her. She is one of Damallsvenskan’s big exclamation points and one of the absolute best players in the league, says Irma Helin.
The Nigerian was brought in from Sevilla ahead of the season on a one-year contract. She told Aftonbladet that she has not yet made up her mind and that she is well aware of both domestic and foreign interest. A dialogue is also conducted with Linköping.
– She would definitely manage a stay abroad, but it would of course be fun for the damallsvenskan if you could keep her, says Irma Helin.
– Olivia Schough in a match against Linköping.
Photo: Peter Holgersson / Bildbyrån
FC Rosengård’s goal difference is not worse. A big reason why the team won the Swedish Championship gold is that it only conceded ten goals. They have also scored fifty-two goals.
Olivia Schough is an established national team and damallsvenskan player. Last year, she kept Djurgården in the Allsvenskan with her goals and assists, but it is only this season in FC Rosengård that it has come loose properly.
– You always have a high level, but not everyone gets it out. She uses her strengths in a way that means that she usually gets the maximum performance, says Irma Helin.
From her left wing, she has scored eleven goals and seven assists. That makes her the top scorer in a gold-winning team. Schough has one year left on his contract with FC Rosengård.
– There is a high probability that she can win the shooting league if Stina Blackstenius now chooses to go abroad again. She is a scorer who scores both goals and assists, says Irma Helin.
Everyone has the chance to increase their numbers as one match remains of the damallsvenskan.