Hammarby puts pressure on Sirius - new series leader

When Hammarby beat league leaders Sirius on Thursday, the Uppsala club's lead in the Allsvenskan football league shrank to three points with four games left to play.

Now "Bajen" is catching up on 55 points and league leader by virtue of a better goal difference - at least until Tuesday. Sirius has played one less match and then meets the other Halmstad at home at Studenternas.

- We will see if Sirius loses points, but this was very important, says Madjed.

Behind the duo, Djurgården remains in the top fight. The third in the table has 52 points after the Stockholm club beat Degerfors 2–1 at home.

Hammarby's path to the three points was tricky.

Already in the seventh minute, Malmö made it 1–0. Otto Rosengren hit a perfect cross and Diego Garcia was able to give MFF the lead with a well-balanced header.

- We are clearly better. We lead the game, we have a few opportunities, but we concede a really unnecessary goal. Now it will be uphill, says Hammarby's Paulos Abraham to TV4 during the break.

Home player Sead Haksabanovic agreed with the match picture.

- We score a goal, then it feels like we're just trying to survive. We lose second balls and they have to attack a lot, says Haksabanovic.

The second half was only seven minutes old when "Bajen" got a reward. Center back Victor Eriksson appeared at the far post from a corner and was able to head in the equaliser.

Five minutes later, Hammarby had turned around. Montader Madjed scored a dream goal last time against Sirius - now the 21-year-old scored a delicious 2-1 behind Robin Olsen in MFF.

A goal that decided the meeting at the Eleda stadium. In the final stage, MFF's Andrej Djuric was sent off after scalping Hammarby veteran Nahir Besara.

Henrik Rydström coached MFF to SM gold in 2023 and 2024, but he was fired in 2025. This summer he took over Hammarby after Kalle Karlsson had to leave the coaching post and now his team took three vital points in Skåne to put pressure on Sirius in the fight for the SM gold.