Two corner goals gave victory when the Swedish Cup group stage began at Eleda Stadium.
Stryger Larsen scored his first goal in MFF on a corner in the 93rd minute
Key events
1′ Kick-off at a sunny Eleda Stadium.
4′ Ribbtraff for MFF after a messy situation in the opponents’ penalty area.
5′ Pontus Jansson heads hard from distance in the corner but the ball goes just wide of the post.
26′ Isaac Kiese Thelin finishes from very close range but the goalkeeper is close in front and stands in the way.
35′ Johan Dahlin stands for a fine intervention when he tips a hard and well-directed shot into the corner.
44′ Busanello with a shot that goes just wide.
45′ Botheim turns away a defender and fires a shot that goes just over the bar.
64′ GOAL! Sergio Peña meets a corner perfectly with his forehead and gives MFF the lead.
67′ Rosengren wins the ball high up and Jörgensen gets a good shooting position. However, the shot goes wide.
68′ Isaac Kiese Thelin receives the ball in the penalty area, turns up but shoots straight at the keeper.
89′ Another good position for Isaac Kiese Thelin but again the shot is blocked.
90+3′ GOAL! Stryger Larsen scores his first goal for MFF when he heads in a corner in added time.
HENRIK RYDSTRÖM AFTER THE MATCH
– I was very dissatisfied with what we did in the first half. Then I have a suspicion that it may be so. We face a hungry opponent who sees this match as something very funny. I don’t think we handled it well. We seemed to think it was hard. We gave them too much time. Nobody took “ownership” in the defensive game.
– We tried to get rid of it in the second half. I am clearly more satisfied with the work effort and that we give them less time with the ball. We defend our goal well. But our own game is too slow and static for us to be satisfied. A lot depends on ourselves. We can use it as an alarm clock. But it’s still early in the season. Things look worse. There are a lot of things that we need to do better when we take on these types of matches.
Match facts
Goal
Malmö FF: Peña (64), Stryger Larsen (90+3)
Östers IF:
Warnings
Malmö FF: Busanello (55), Kiese Thelin (72)
Östers IF: Bergquist (51), Kusu (54), Varmanen (66), Adjei (90+1)
Lineup
Johan Dahlin
Jens Stryger Larsen, Pontus Jansson, Derek Cornelius, Gabriel Busanello (’64 Olsson)
Oliver Berg (’64 Jörgensen), Lases Berg Johnsen, Sergio Peña (’64 Rosengren), Sebastian Nanasi (’89 Bolin)
Erik Botheim (’82 Skogmar), Isaac Kiese Thelin
Substitute: Ricardo Friedrich, Otto Rosengren, Martin Olsson, Sebastian Jörgensen, Elison Makolli, Zakaria Loukili, Nils Zätterström, Adrian Skogmar, Hugo Bolin.
