Malmo. On one side was a club that does not know who they are or where they are going.
On the other side were a team that knows exactly.
They are Malmo FF, they are headed for the Europa League.
Shakhtar may not be the most difficult opponent Malmo FF is set against this year, but they are definitely the most difficult to identify.
Their football ideology was born when the Romanian youth Mircea Lucescu was at the winter tour in Brazil 48 years ago. Their club is built on coal and steel. Their supporters have been a factor in Europe’s most explosive conflict.
Three years ago, I was at the Donbass Arena and watched football, Ukraine has lost eight thousand lives since then, Shakhtar have lost their homes, their owners have lost half his empire.
Today, Shakhtar a club who live in Donetsk, living in Kiev and play in Lviv. Yesterday began, government forces and pro-Russian separatists disarmament home in Donetsk.
How to understand it in such a law? Such a day?
MFF understood in any case quickly how it feels to face them. Shakhtar played with his usual courage, his usual Brazilian-Ukrainian ball security all the way from Pjatov in the case in Gladkly front.
Play football?
Well, this was more about hunt football.
Right – and really wrong
While Shakhtar rolled ball, varied with longer plays against Gladkly that sought toward Anton Tinnerholm to Nick Whittle against Alex Teixeira or Bernard on the rear face, got MFF try to be right and being smart enough once they got to borrow the ball.
Even when this European adventure thundered running so knew all about this club that it was the matches against Shakhtar really mattered, purely sporting . It was where one would bragdlugga points, it was this man would tear itself to a European fotbollsliv on the other side winter.
They were right, and it was certainly wrong.
When see MFF play like they do in these kinds of matches, the concentration of each distinct touch on the ball, the minimal carelessness in each shift, so should the people in Malmö to be just as cursed as delighted.
What if they had taken it recorded 28 premier division games this season that means everything, purely sporting. Somewhere, it’s like the inflated severity, the reduced reflection period allows all the players take to exactly the level required. When there is no time they play quickly, when there is a lot of time – to Falkenberg or Halmstad – they use it.
Now, they met a team that beat them with 100-0 in the square, but was worse on the plan’s most important hundred square meters.
Fred and Alex Teixeira had to control the game and rhythm as best they wanted, Shakhtar got the win possession of 95-5 they wanted. If the match is decided by five beauty judges had the MFF able to book winter, now they accepted his role and played the Golden Globe cleverly.
Enoch Kofi Adu was their lifeline just before the break, with the exact position play and the ability to find those vital, oxygenating tiometerspassningarna. Rodic combined defense job of being an offensive threat, Djurdjic as well.
And so it is here with Markus Rosenberg.
When he came home to a club and a city who expected he would lift them up and carry them on those
After the fourth tunneled on Konate presented in a most o Konatetskt way and rolled the ball into the penalty point. And it is clear that Rosenberg was there, it is clear that he sent the 1-0.
MFF had lifted the coffin lid. How it sounded?
“fantastic support”
Bob Houhgton came out on the grass in the break and told me:
– it is a fantastic support you are giving the team. It’s worth a meul with such support.
A little more stressed Shakhtar and afterwards defensive corrected MFF (Rodic and Djurdjic did it early presents the game so well that the late defense game became much easier) gave a match image was perfect for a technically inferior Malmo.
They ignored well of the ball, as long as they got all the chances.
Djurdjic played until Jo Inge Berget to the open position from eight meters. Mount lifted a neutral-lift just outside. Rodic lifted a free-kick posts in the post. Rosenberg and Djurdjic lined up a double chance.
Yes, and they got a penalty as well, of which the variety that you must have read the credits in the international game to fix. The mountain drew Srna in the arm, threw himself, and cheated to one eleven anglers.
Djurdjic missed penalty, but it confirmed the picture of a very strange match. Shakhtar had the ball, but zero sharp scoring opportunities. Malmö had the cold, and five hundred percent modes.
Funny old game, this.
The more Shakhtar needed that goal, the less you let Malmo them approach it. They went into this match with a clear job description, and passed it. They went into this tournament with a clear objective, and is almost certainly just a good trip to Lviv from managing it.
It’s not where Shakhtar have their homes, but that is where they play his football.
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