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Allsvenskan Club profile: IF Elfsborg

NFN’s Sweden correspondent Nic Townsend has agreed to let us use the club profiles from his excellent Doing Goals blog. Here’s the first, on IF Elfsborg:

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The Allsvenskan preview that doesn’t want to see Djurgården anyway

Will half the matches finish goalless again? Will anyone be allowed to witness Djurgården’s match against Helsingborg? Is Tobias Grahn bigger than God? The Allsvenskan preview asks all these questions and answers none, as we look forward to the second round of matches.

Allsvenskan Round 16: segmentation continues

The sixteenth round mirrored the previous round as we saw eight rematches with the only difference being a flip in home-field advantage. Another similarity was that top teams kept on winning and bottom teams kept on losing. The effect of this is that the trend we noted at the end of the previous round remains [...]

Allsvenskan autumn preview

In a brief moment of clarity I once wrote that I will avoid making predictions because doing so will eventually offer proof that I have no idea of what I’m talking about. While I was smart enough to figure that much out on my own, I am unfortunately dumb enough to ignore my own advice. [...]

Finland’s young guns frighten Germany

Finland were without Jari Litmanen when they took on European Championship runners-up Germany at the Olympic Stadium, but they still managed to put in an excellent performance in Stuart Baxer’s first competitive game in charge, drawing the match 3-3. EGAN RICHARDSON HELSINKI TIMES FINLAND PLAYED without Jari Litmanen and scored three times against the second [...]