Norrköping beat Uppsala 4-0 in the Damallsvenskan Regular Season - 12 on Saturday. The visitors took all three points to move closer to safety in a league where every game matters. And here's the thing — neither side was fighting for anything but pride when this one started.
E. Engstrom opened the scoring in the sixth minute, and by then Norrköping had already shown they meant business. P. Broddner-Klingspor added a second just before the break in the nineteenth minute. To be fair, Uppsala's defence never really found its rhythm after those first twenty minutes.
M. M. Larsson came off for Uppsala in the forty-fourth minute, a substitution that might have been too late to shift momentum. B. Persson restored the two-goal cushion in the fiftieth minute, and A. Olofsson replaced someone for the visitors at the same hour. Norrköping were not rushing, just keeping control.
E. Engstrom made it four in the seventy-seventh minute, his second of the afternoon. The yellow card for E. Flakberg in the seventy-seventh minute came as Uppsala were running out of legs. Five substitutions were made across the match, mostly to change faces rather than fortunes.
Uppsala held 40 per cent possession and registered three shots on target, while Norrköping matched that with 60 per cent and three of their own. The statistics tell a simple story — enough chances to win, and enough to lose. By then the result was never really in doubt.
Uppsala remain fourteenth with six points from seventeen games, one win and three draws. Norrköping sit thirteen with thirteen points, two wins and seven draws. The gap between them stays the same, but the feeling in this one was different from most of the season.