- It is important to follow the situations and not quit working. And we have a damn focus. We go all the way, says Sirius midfielder Christer Gustafsson after 2-1 against Helsingborg.

It has been heavy overall for Sirius this year but when Helsingborg, with just one away victory so far, came to visit Uppsalalaget could take their fourth home victory of fourteen possible and get three vital points to stay at the top of the hot streak fight .

Midfielder Christer Gustafsson opened the goal with a distinct free kick, via touch in the wall of Helsingborg and past Anders Lindegaard just before the half-time rest.

Sirius got the free kick after a Helsingborg hand just outside the penalty area, where the pitch Markus Holgersson happened to prick his arm on a teammate just a few meters away.

Afterwards, both teams agreed that the new hand rule for this year is difficult to understand - even for the judges.

"No one knows"

- Nobody knows what is handy or not. Sometimes they can blow and sometimes they can't. We had one against us in the 1-2 loss in Sundsvall, today we had one with us. It is a very smooth football match today and that is when you have to have this with you, says Christer Gustafsson.

- My goal is not a fantastic football goal and Mohammed's 2-0 goal is a defensive mistake by Helsingborg. We had a damn focus today again. We knew what was at stake, we decided we would win and we did.

However, the 2-0 goal that Gustafsson mentions was not just a defensive mistake.

It took energy to hunt and hunt and that was exactly what Mohammed Saeid did and received a payout for in the 60th minute.

Helsingborgsbacken Anders Randrup then played the ball back to his own goalkeeper but Saeid stuck a leg, broke the back pass, twisted the ball and shot.

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Helsingborg goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard steered away from the first shot but returned to the Sirius midfielder who sent the ball along the goal line and in via the far post.

- I always run on such passes because you never know, there may be a bad bounce or touch and then you are there. I did the whole first half but got nothing with me then because they blocked my shots but in the second it just got there, right in front of me, says the victory shooter Saeid.

TT: It looked a little nonchalant from the HIF hill, didn't he see you coming there?

- Yes, I think he noticed that I was there but I think he got a hit. Such things happen in football but you should be there when it happens as an attacker as well. I actually hesitated a bit if I was going to shoot with the right or come back with the ball to my left then but luckily I believed in myself and shot with the right and it became a goal.

Mostly in their own hands

The score was then 0 - 2. The visitors' Helsingborg striker Alhaji Gero placed the ball right at his teammate's feet after 89 minutes.

Sirius won and now has most of his own hands ahead of the three closing rounds: Östersund away, Eskilstuna away and Kalmar at home.

But what is the reason for Sirius, who has mostly lost this season now to bring with him that line of points needed to secure a new universal contract?

Christer Gustafsson does not hesitate when asked:

- We fix it because we have tuned in to it. We have set ourselves up for a damn hard job. We are mentally tuned into a fight all the way.