At full time and after the extension was the position 1-1, and it was the penalty shootout which had to determine which team made it to the finals in the Swedish cup.
After the first five penalty kicks, it was 3-3 then Henok Goitom and Chinedu Obasi missed AIK’s shootout.
In the eighth round was Heradi Rashidi forced to make goals.
placed the ball outside the Mihail ivanov’s created right post it also meant that the final of the cup is played between the AFC Eskilstuna and BK Häcken.
“It was not for us today,” notes AIK goalkeeper Oscar Shape.
Linnet saved two penalties and also set one yourself, but stepped still of the losers.
” It is clear that it is depressed but it is no idea to pull large switches of this.
AIK has not impressed in the tournament and it was also quite large for the inconvenience that the team made it to the semifinals.
It felt hard to the match went into extra time and penalty shootout.
in the semi-final against the AFC was classes better than before, but it was, nevertheless, not to defeat the guests at the Friends arena.
” It felt hard to the match went into extra time and penalty shootout, says AIK’s coach, Rikard Norling.
the AIK created a couple of really sharp chances in the first half and should have secured a finalist is already there.
When Chinedu Obasi after 24 minutes was felled just outside the penalty area got Sebastian Larsson the chance to give AIK the lead.
the Feeling in his right foot there was nothing wrong, the goalkeeper Mihail Ivanov could only watch as the ball twisted towards the right corner and cleanly hit the post, the return went to the Rasmus Lindkvist who pulled the ball high over.
had Sebastian Larsson a new chance. Daniel Sundgren stuck into the ball behind the mittförsvararna and Larsson came free but didn’t manage to put the ball in the goal behind Ivanov.
In the beginning of the second half rescued Jesper Björkman the ball on the goal line and it was on the subsequent corner as Panajotis Dimitriadis nodded in 1-0 goal.
AIK began to hesitate, AFC dared to take a step forward instead of backward, and then came the chance that gave 1-1.
With barely ten minutes left to play, nodded the Samuel Nnamani in a free-kick and it looked to be a fairly secure AIK’s victory was a shocker.
on large-scale training, two försvarsskickliga team ensured that the match went to penalty shootout.
the AFC finished third in the second division and qualified up to the highest division. The team showed morale and defeated Brommapojkarna in the autumn qualifiers with a 2-1 away after losing at home with 1-0.
Now it was again the morale that gave the team an important victory.
the AFC play a solid defense game which showed up against the team of the tournament from Solna. In the last year, released the AFC, just like AIK, only in 16 goals in their 30 league matches.
Someone inexperienced strykpojke it was not who showed up at the Friends arena.
the Cheers in the AFC Eskilstuna after straffsegern. Photo: Jesper Zerman/Bildbyrån
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