Survival in Pajas Academy (MAIF 2-0 Väsby United)

Today we managed to win against Väsby United today, 2-0, goals of Olsson at the 11th minute and Alex at the 91st minute on penalty.

It started all quite well, pass from Tobbe near the central point, Olsson brings the ball up, while fighting side-by-side with a defender for half of Väsby side, then Väsby's keeper comes towards Olsson, who somehow finds a small hole and pushes the ball in the net. A goal like we had not seen from Olsson in a while, but we still like those, so Fredrik, don't hesitate to please us more often, we like it!
Then for the rest of the first half it was all Mjällby, Väsby were not able to build anything at all. Their attacks lead nowehere, their counter attacks were too slow to surprise anyone, their passes were highly inaccurate. Nothing worked for them.

The second half starts and the Väsby player seem to have got a proper yelling at during the break, they start to play better. On the pitch, Mr referee has less and less clues about what's going on (see details below). At the 60th minute, Ivanovski gets hurt, and Mjällby all of a sudden literally stops going forward. Now Väsby have the space to make their game, and the dangerous situations follow one another tightly. Shortly after, Wille gets hurt too. In with Sandström for Ivanovski, Alex for Wille, Berner for Olsson (not hurt). Very frustrating last 20-25 minutes, no good actions from MAIF. Finally Tobbe is taken down in the surface at the 91st minutes and, out of nowehere, Mr referee seems to have finally remembered what a penalty is, and actually blows it. It was so unexpected that nobody actually believed it at first and started yelling yet another time at him. Anyway, Alex walks up, very safe, and scores.

Today, we were lucky that the Väsby players were not good finishers, because they were in position to shoot in many occasions, only their balls flew away nowehere most often.

to:

• Sjöfors, don't move back to your normal position in the front, you're never better than as a defender, very solid today
  
• Lindberg, managed somehow to hold back all of Väsby's assaults in the last 30 minutes
  
• Dusan, had a lot to do today, but managed to hold a clean sheet
  
• Johan P, very active and agressive as usual
  
• Olsson, nice goal, lot of activity today, trying to do part of Eken's job (absent today)
  
• Alex, only 10 minutes on the pitch but did not hesitate half a second to shoot and score a penalty at the 91th minute
  
• Ivanovski, very safe and quick, but got hurt at the end

to Jermaine Hue: not enough hard-working, tries a lot of stuff that, if they worked, would be fantastic. Problem is, they never work. Not Zizou quite yet. A number of wrong passes, a lack of tempo or sometimes even breaks the tempo. Must improve his level if he wants to keep his place in the start 11.

to the pajas. I think he was actually even worse than Mr Pajas himself, it was pityful.
Example: Olsson gets a free-kick against him at the 5rd minute for high foot, 30 cm from the ground. In the 2nd half, Johan S gets a full force kick in the face, but nothing there. Ok, Johan is not the tallest guy, but still.
Several times players were literally taken down in the surface (and I don't mean only MAIF players) but nothing.
Gave 2 yellow-cards for non-actions, but nothing when people got walked on or kicked, unless at least a couple times.
The pitch was like a battlefield at times, people get mad, start to make (big) mistakes, and people get hurt. Both Wille and Ivanovski had to leave the pitch hurt today. It should not be that way, mr Referee you must learn to take control of the game.
Oh and special mention to one line-man for showing offside on Johan S when the pass was actually a missed pass from a defender backwards. I had actually never seen that one.

Anyway, now we are actually 8th of the Superettan with 34 points. We are not safe though, the middle of the table is very dense, 2 other teams also have 34 points and 4 teams are within +/- 3 points.
Another point worth noting, our goal difference is finally almost positive despite being 4th worst defense of the league. That means we're finally making significantly more goals than we take.