Match Report
14 points and 3 places separated them: Värnamo 16th with 16, Degerfors 13th with 30. Degerfors ranked 5th in the league on five-round form, well above their 13th table position. Per game in the league, Värnamo were scoring 1.2 and conceding 2.3, Degerfors 1.1 and 1.73, against a competition average of 1.42 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Degerfors for 10 matches.
6 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Värnamo 1, draws 1, Degerfors 4, at 2.33 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 17% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Finnvedsvallen staged the fixture, a ground that holds 5,000. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 3-2.
Goal scorers
Värnamo: Ajdin Zeljkovic (8'), Rufai Mohammmed (57'), Marcus Antonsson (77') · Degerfors: Sebastian Ohlsson (29'), Daniel Sundgren (71')
Key stats
Possession: Värnamo 54% · Degerfors 46% · Total shots: 15-15 · On target: 5-3 · Corners: 5-10