Week 18 brings us a match on Aug 14th where Kalmar will travel to Stockholm to battle Djurgården in a clash of these two closely matched Allsvenskan teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 24 degrees, a perfect day for football. Djurgården is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Värnamo. Neither Värnamo nor Djurgården could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 9 and 9 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Djurgården is on a hot streak lately, having won 7 of their last 10, while kalmar sits at 7th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against AIK. Oliver Berg scored the first goal for Kalmar in the 54th minute on a penalty shot, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, AIK couldn’t muster any offence and Kalmar ran away with the shutout win. Kalmar is looking for direction having 4 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches.
Djurgården and Kalmar last played eachother at the Guldfågeln Arena on the 22nd of May. Kalmar was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Lars Sætra scored the first goal for Kalmar in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Djurgården couldn’t muster any offence and Kalmar ran away with the shutout win.
Oliver Berg has been the most prolific scorer on Kalmar in the last five matches with three goals. Both Gustav Wikheim and Victor Edvardsen have been the hottest scorers for Djurgården in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals.