Grondals IK 2 v 2 Ostersunds FK

Tuesday 4th August 2009
Division 1 Norra
Aspuddens IP, Aspudden (western Stockholm)
Attendance: 208
Admission: 100 SEK
Programme: Teamsheet included with admission

The last game of my Swedish visit took me to the humble surroundings of Aspuddens in south west Stockholm, for this third tier clash. This promised to be an interesting game, with Grondals mid table with some decent recent results, and Ostersunds, although marooned at the foot of the table, had recently appointed the Englishman Lee Makel as player-coach, who had brought various other English journeymen to northern Sweden.

This was another entertaining game, with Ostersunds taking a shock lead on just 3 minutes, with a lovely long range effort from Lee Makel from outsde the penalty area. They were full value for their lead, although it wasn't a total surprise when Grondals equalised on the stroke of half time.

Grondals then were reduced to ten men, losing a midfielder to a second yellow card, and then fell behind. One bizarre feature of this game was one corner of the field flooding badly, bizarre as the current and recent weather was non-stop dryness and sunshine. A burst water main was to blame. Despite all this, Grondals managed to equalise on 75 minutes, and although both sides had chances to equalise, the 2-2 draw was a fair result

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