Malmo vs Elfsborg - prediction, team news, lineups

Vying to adjacent the spread to the Swedish Allsvenskan's European places connected Sunday, Malmo volition look disconnected against Elfsborg astatine Eleda Stadion.

Di Blae could marque it 4 wins from 5 games this weekend, portion Di Gule volition beryllium hopeless to halt the rot aft losing 3 connected the bounce up of footwear off.

Match preview

Malmo travel into this clash successful beardown form, having benefited from the caller manager bounce nether the guidance of Gaute Helstrup.

The 50-year-old was appointed connected July 1 - leaving his relation arsenic Bodo/Glimt adjunct to instrumentality the reins astatine Di Blae - and has overseen 2 wins and 1 gully from his 3 matches truthful far.

Helstrup kept 2 cleanable sheets successful his archetypal 2 outings, beating Degerfors 1-0 connected July 4 and Goteborg 4-0 connected July 12, though that thrashing was marred by the anterior cruciate ligament wounded that has ruled Malmo winger Oscar Sjostrand retired for the remainder of the season.

The caller brag saw his winning commencement travel to an extremity connected Monday, successful a disappointing 2-2 gully with 12th-placed Kalmar that required his squad to travel from down twice, conscionable to locomotion distant with a point.

That stalemate near Malmo seventh successful the Allsvenskan, wherever their full of 20 points has them 3 down third-placed Hacken.

Knowing that triumph could assistance their squad into the spots for the Conference League qualifiers, fans of the hosts volition instrumentality bosom from the information they person won back-to-back location league clashes heading into Sunday's showdown.

Meanwhile, Bjorn Hamberg's Elfsborg are successful contrastingly dire form, and spell into this weekend's contention having failed to triumph immoderate of their past 8 games.

To marque matters worse, Di Gule were beaten 3-1 by top-of-the-table Sirius astir recently, and portion the effect was not unexpected, it marked the team's 3rd consecutive defeat.

All-in-all, Hamberg's broadside person not taken maximum points since downing Brommapojkarna 2-0 connected May 8, a concerning grounds that has enactment the manager nether pressure.

Elfsborg presently beryllium ninth successful the Swedish Allsvenskan with 18 points to their name, but portion they person fallen from their awesome early-season form, the nine stay conscionable 5 points disconnected the apical three.

If Di Gule tin find their feet with a uncommon triumph connected Sunday, past the complexion of their run could beryllium drastically shifted, with the contention for Europe acold from implicit arsenic things stand.

That being said, Elfsborg person won lone 1 of their distant league matches successful 2026, drafting 3 times and losing twice, and it would beryllium a astonishment to spot the visitors defy their travelling grounds this weekend.

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Team News

Malmo person an extended database of absentees to contend with this weekend, made worse by the suspension that midfielder Kenan Busuladzic picked up for accumulating yellowish cards.

Fellow midfielder Yanis Karabelyov is sidelined done injury, portion near winger Oscar Sjostrand is successful the aboriginal stages of recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament tear, and striker Anders Christiansen is moving his mode to afloat fittingness pursuing a limb issue.

In their absence, Otto Rosengren could commencement down Adrian Skogmar and 17-year-old Theodor Lundbergh successful the centre of the park, with Sead Haksabanovic and Anton Hoog operating retired wide successful enactment of centre-forward Erik Botheim.

At the other extremity of the pitch, goalkeeper Robin Olsen is simply a uncertainty owed to a concussion, portion left-back Busanello's concussion volition spot him miss the game, and centre-back Pontus Jansson is retired for the play with a cruciate ligament injury.

With that successful mind, Johan Dahlin should beryllium connected manus to commencement betwixt the sticks, protected by a backmost 4 of Jens Stryger, Andrej Djuric, Malte Palsson and Noah John.

As for Elfsborg, they are missing striker Per Frick arsenic helium recovers from a breached ankle helium suffered backmost successful April, truthful expect to see Frederik Ihler pb the line, supplied by an attacking trio of Momoh Kamara, Julius Beck and Ari Sigurpalsson.

Malmo imaginable starting lineup:

Dahlin; Stryger, Djuric, Palsson, John; Rosengren; Haksabanovic, Lundbergh, Skogmar, Hoog; Botheim

Elfsborg imaginable starting lineup:

Pettersson; Wkstrom, Holmen, Isherwood, Hult; Magnusson, Olsson; Kamara, Beck, Sigurpalsson; Ihler

We say: Malmo 2-1 Elfsborg

Malmo person improved nether caller manager Helstrup, and volition beryllium assured of taking each 3 points against a struggling opponent.

Elfsborg are without a triumph successful 8 matches, and person mislaid each of their past three, truthful different decision connected Sunday would not travel arsenic a surprise.

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