The Return of Ze Pajas

...and they were several today, apparently the line-men have been to Pajas Academy as well. I put Mr Pajas (the very same as the famous one from last year) and his 2 associates a for forgetting to calm down some Norrköping players with give some well deserved cards (ugly tackle on Johan S 1 meter away from the line man, very ugly tackle and a kick on Lindberg, Ivanoski pushed down in the zone, Eken's arms and shirt held on repeated occasion, etc etc...). Also why Simon got a yellow card on a non-action at the 6th minute is beyond me, it is as close to unfair towards him as can be, in comparison with some of the IFK tackles, especially after the 60th minutes they were clearly not going for the ball.

Opportunity-wise, Olsson had a couple of very good ones, he missed a 1-on-1 in the first half (the ball skimmed right past the post while the keeper was beaten), and a header in the second half that unfortunately was too centered, right on the keeper. But good activity overall, only lack of finishing. Eken also had some opportunities, but again the IFK keeper was on the way. The same goes for Johan S, Simon, and the others. At the end, young Adam Berner (in for Olsson) showed some very quick and promising actions.

Only Johan P managed to head in a ball on an indirect corner kick at the 83rd minute.

IFK's goal had come just before at the 79th, a very low free-kick, the ball goes through the wall and bounces on the very wet grass, Dusan cannot block it, and a free IFK player pushes in the return. A little miss from Simon who was at the post, but could not stop that ball, that was quite difficult anyway.

to more or less the whole MAIF team. Simon Did a lot of work in defense, had an extraordinary opportunity on a header which the IFK keeper really stole from his head at the last second. Wille was good, very active, working well with the midfielders ahead of him. Johan S. was very offensive, beating his defenders more often than not. Lindberg good, Danne good. Dusan did some very good saves. The new players Jermaine and Ivanovski have been good, they made a couple of mistakes quite obviously due to their need to get used to their new team, who is playing how, how fast they run etc... I think Jermaine could have played more offensive as well.

Final score: 1-1, but it should have been 3-1. The IFK management can give a big bonus to their keeper for this point.
It's a pity because we could definitely have taken all 3 points, we had the game very much under control, and at times obviously dominating it, but with the help of a very compact IFK defense and very forgiving judging our attacks were often stopped

MAIF showed a lot of will in this game, but really what was missing was more goals, and better organisation on the free kicks situations. I don't know you, but I think I have heard/said that very sentence several times already this season.

In the ranking, we are now 3rd from the end with 20 points, Sundsvall have passed us after beating the Bromma kids, but they are only 1 point ahead. We must take the 3 points of next game against Qviding away if we want to keep a chance of staying in the SuperEttan.