Mjällby - Atvidaberg 2-0: 2 minutes are enough

The game against Atvidaberg was probably the best one this season in term of control of the game, it was a real pleasure to see Mjällby's playing.

Before the game, we could think that it would be a difficult game against one of the best team of Superettan. But it wasn't: Mjällby is very impressive at home, with no defeat at Standvallen this season.

The game was done in 2 minutes, between 14th and 16th minute, when Mjällby scored twice.

First goal of Sasa Zimonjic, who played in a different position as usual, as attacker with Ekenberg. and he did very well: Free kick (same position as against Landskrona) by Cedeberg, the ball arrives in the foot of Marcelo Sarvas who centered, the ball is pushed by the head of Zimonjic.

We didn't have the time to really celebrate the goal, then came the second. On the left side, the center arrives on Ekenberg who kicked the ball, the goalkeeper of Atvidaberg is too short, the ball touch the post but finally enter in the goal. It was the referee assistent who validated the goal.

Atvidaberg had a good chance on a face to face situation, but Melicharek stopped the shoot. it was the best goal chance for Atvidaberg in the game. Otherwise there was not so much to say.

In the second half, Mjällby played on counter, the score could be 4 or 5-0 for Mjällby.
The hole team was very good yesterday. Dusan did what he had to do.

In the defense, who was a little bit modified with the suspension of Lindberg, we had Nilsson on the right, Johansson on the left, and Ivanovski and Cedeberg as center defenders. Cedeberg has more and more self confidence, the progress he did is very clear to see.

In the middle, Osiako and Persson as defense midfielders. As usual they did a good game. Osiako lose a very low number of balls. Persson finished the game as central defender after that Ivanovski left the field because on injury. On the left side we had Marcello Sarvas, who was in one word excellent. it is strange to think that last year he played in Kristianstad in a lower division. On the right side, Svensson was generous and runned a lot, but he didn't have the same result as Sarvas, and probably because of the left back defender of Atvidaberg, Arvidsson, who was the best for Atvidaberg. He is very impressive. He won probably all duals agaisnt Svensson, and he was also a good support in the offensive situation.

In the front, Ekenberg as usual, scored his 6yh goal of the season. and as second attacker, Zimonjic, who did a very good game.

We can also say that Fejzullahu and Löfqvist were good also.

With this good result:
- Mjällby wins 3 places and is now at place 6 of the championship, is is still undefeated at Stranvallen.
- Mjällby has the best goal difference (+9) after Nörköpping, and the best defense of Superettan, only 10 goals taken.
- We can see that Mjällby has a better bench this season. Löfqvist, fejzullahu, osiako, zimonjic...it gives more opportunity to the trainer. And we have also players who can play at different positions.


Next game at Strandvallen is against IFK Göteborg in the swedish cup (quarter finals) August 2nd. This positive result is very good to prepare this game.
Next superettan game is on Monday July 30th in Landskrona, and next Superettan game at Strandvallen is against Sündsvall on August 5th: it will be an other test and an indication for the the possiblity for Mjällby to reach one the 3 first positions.