Norrkoeping – Malmoe

The championship contender will defeat the unmotivated hosts

With three rounds to go in Sweden's elite division, there are two real contenders for the title. Hecken, six points behind the first place, are unlikely to defend it. Before the 28th round, Elfsborg are leading in the standings and need only win the remaining games to win the gold medals. In second place with a two-point gap lurks Malmö, considered by bookmakers as the main favourite before the season started. Norrköping no longer has any tournament ambitions. "White-Blue" are located in the very middle of the standings, without even a mathematical chance of promotion and the risk of falling out of the Allsvenskan. Bookmakers have identified the motivated guests as favourites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 1.58 on their victory. Over the past eleven seasons in the Allsvenskan, Norrköping has only twice fallen out of the top ten clubs in the standings. The second time it happened in the last draw of the elite Swedish division. In the off-season, the club made the right conclusions and the current Allsvenskan championship started quite well. In the first eight rounds, the Blue and White lost only to the main favourite of the season at the time - Malmo. Another thing is that from the third decade of May the team went through a real crisis of two draws and four defeats, from which they recovered only in the second half of July. For the second time, Norrköping completely failed the season from the end of August to the current moment. In the last seven rounds, the Blue and White have picked up just four points, suffering five defeats and beating only Kalmar. Norrköping seems to be playing with great difficulty without tournament motivation. Malmö were leading the league at the start of the season, but then got into a battle with Hecken and Elfsborg, alternating positions at the top of the standings with the aforementioned clubs. The Sky Blue have more or less levelled things up since the end of August. While their upcoming opponents won only one match during this period, Malmo lost only one. And that away defeat to Kalmar came as a result of a goal conceded on 90+5 minutes. The guests will be motivated and will win confidently.