Allsvenskan Shock: Orgryte Fight Back to Hold Second-Placed Elfsborg 2-2

Bottom-placed Orgryte rally late to hold second-placed Elfsborg to draw

Elfsborg led 2-0 through Arber Zeneli but Orgryte hit back late for a 2-2 draw. The result keeps OIS bottom on goal difference while Elfsborg slip seven points behind Sirius.  

 

Four draws in a row, Elfsborg stalled by last-place Orgryte comeback...

Orgryte, last in the Allsvenskan table, fought back from 2-0 down in the last 20 minutes to earn a 2-2 home draw against Elfsborg. The result extends Elfsborg’s run without a win to four straight league matches.

Missed chances leave Elfsborg seven points adrift

If Elfsborg had converted those four draws into wins, they would sit one point clear at the top of Allsvenskan. Instead they trail leaders Sirius by seven points, and they have played two games more.

The deficit looked set to shrink to five points when Julius Beck was brought down in the box by Mikael Dyrestam. Arber Zeneli stepped up and converted the penalty coolly to put Elfsborg ahead in the 37th minute.

Zeneli seemed to seal it midway through the second half. Beck got to a long ball first, shrugged off the defender, and squared it for the Kosovo international to lift a delicate chip over the goalkeeper.

Orgryte had threatened a couple of times, so their goal three minutes later didn’t come out of nowhere. A long throw wasn’t cleared properly, they kept the ball alive with a few tidy touches, and Christoffer Styffe brought it down for Noah Christoffersson to volley in.

The comeback was finished just seven minutes after that, and that was the real shock. William Hofvander floated a hopeful ball down the right, Christoffersson controlled it after holding off his marker, skipped past a defender, cut inside, and hammered it into the roof of the net from a tight angle.

Mikael Dyrestam nearly atoned at the death when his close-range header crashed off the post. In the end the points were split after both sides saw their forwards score twice.

OIS snapped a four-match losing streak and stay bottom of the table, but only on goal difference behind Halmstad. Both clubs remain on six points.