Kalmar – AIK

The visitors will dominate their tired and frustrated opponents

Kalmar is one of the most stable participants of the Allsvenskan. Despite the fact that the club has a rather small number of trophies in its bank, the current season is the club's twentieth consecutive season in the Swedish football elite. In the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 seasons, Kalmar nearly made it to the Superettan, twice defending their right to stay in the play-offs. In the following years, the club management levelled the situation, which led to fourth place at the end of last season and a passage to the qualification of the Conference League. Judging by the results in the championship, the team was thoroughly preparing for the European Cup arena but suffered a painful setback, which was legally formalised this Thursday. Kalmar flew to Armenia for the match after a 1-2 home defeat to Pyunik. Instead of fighting fiercely in a foreign arena, the Red Brothers lost again with a similar score. For the upcoming home match, the team will come out not only with a spoilt mood, but also clearly not in tone in terms of physical readiness, because the road to Armenia is not the easiest. Taking these factors into account, bookmakers have identified the visitors as favourites for this game, offering odds of 2.34 on their victory. AIK has disastrously failed the first half of the season for the second time in recent years. Last time the club from Solna equalised the situation with a prolonged unbeaten streak in the second round, which is what their coaching staff and players are focusing on now. A month ago AIK was headed by the famous Norwegian coach Henning Berg. In the first meeting under the Norwegian AIK lost to the reigning champion, but from the next game started to show the football that the fans could not wait for the last six months. The games against Varberg, Malmö and Sirius brought the team from Solna seven points out of a possible nine. Even Malmö could have lost against Berg's team. Taking into account that AIK had a chance to prepare for the upcoming meeting in peace, while Kalmar was burdened with a tough away trip, let's bet in favour of the visitors.