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June 18, 2001

Damallsvenskan, Sweden´s premier league 10th round results played June 16-17th

By Thorsten Frennstedt

Malmö 2 Djurgården 2 (0-1)
M: Therese Lundin (70,71).
D: Elin Flyborg (37,71)
7 or maybe 8 of the players on the field will play for Sweden in the European final rounds from June 23rd. During this match you wouldn't know them from the rest of players except for Elin Flyborg who is Sweden´s most efficient player in the box. Her first goal looked as if it would be the only one until suddenly Therese Lundin switched the match for Malmö. But straight after the second kick off Elin scored the equalizer. Then Malmö was the stronger team, however the home team should be pleased with one point. Djurgården also hit the post twice (Therese Brogårde and Sara Johansson).

Älvsjö 4 Sunnanå (P) 1 (2-1)
Ä: Jessica Thorn (39), Jane Törnqvist (45), Anna Pohjanen (55), Linda Fageström (61).
S: Helena Svärd (23).
Sunnanå deserved the early lead. But later Älvsjö looked the stronger team. Jane Törnqvist had recovered from her slight injury during the international against Canada. She headed in to make it 2-1 just before half time. Victoria Svensson did not play against Canada and entered for the last half hour. She made some good attempts but lost her leader position in the scoring league to Flyborg.

Bälinge 2 Kopparbergs/Landvetter 0 (0-0)
Maria Krohn (PKm 56), Maria Säfström (88).

K/L's keeper Ulrika Mellberg was sent off when she stopped Bälinge´s forward Therese Sandström. It was the second win this season for Bälinge. After the first goal the players played more confidently K/L created just one scoring chance by Marit Björstedt in the first half.

Hammarby 0 Kristianstad/Wä 0
Both team are in severe need of points. Hammarby has not scored in five out of ten matches, K/W in three matches. Both teams each had one good chance to score the deciding goal, Hammarby when Anna-Linh Stenqvist and Ingrid Olsson failed to control the rebounce from the cross bar, and Kristianstad/Wä in injury time when Katarina Andersson got free but had too steep an angle to shoot from.

Mallbacken (P) 4 HIF Alingsås (P) 1 (0-0)
M: Madeleine Breiling (53), Cecilia Klier (71,87), Jenny Möller (89), H
A: Sara Jardving (73)
The guests dominated this match. Mallbacken is the surprise team this season now in the 4th position in the league.
" We have been some lucky to score. Our fellow promoted opponents have missed that thoughthey play as good as we."Mallbacken head coach Janne Jansson explains.
The 2-0 did not tie the match. HIF Alingsås fought strongly after the 2-1. Mallbacken though got some easy goals during the last minutes.

Umeå (C) 1 Öster 1 (0-0)
U: Hanna Ljungberg (68)
Ö: Frida Nordin (77)
This is an historic result. No other team could have been pointed out as a 100 percent loser like Öster. The bottom of the league team had earned just one point in 9 matches. Umeå with 7 Swedish national team players is the favourite to win the title this year and Öster is on the way to relegation. The Umeå players did not seem focused on their task to beat Öster. After Hanna Ljungberg´s 1-0 there were no more goals for the home side. Öster put all its resources on defence. On the sole counter attack in the second half, Frida Nordin looped a long ball over Ulla-Karin Thelin who was far out of her goal.


Standings
Älvsjö 25
Umeå (C)24
Malmö 21
Mallbacken(P) 18
Djurgården 17
Kopparbergs/Landvetter 16
Hammarby 11
Bälinge 10
Kristianstad/Wä 9
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Sunnanå (P) 8
HIF Alingsås(P) 4
Öster 2

C= Champion, P= Promoted this year

Leading scorers

11 mål: Elin Flyborg, Djurgården.
10 mål: Victoria Svensson, Älvsjö.
8 mål: Hanna Ljungberg, Umeå.
6 mål: Madelaine Edlund, Sunnanå, Malin Andersson, Malmö, Ulrika Björn, Kopparbergs/Landvetter, Salina Olsson, Hammarby.
5 mål: Jessica Thorn, Älvsjö, , Jenny Monsén, Mallbacken, Lina Johansson, Sunnanå, Marit Björs