Before tonight's match in Malmö, Linköping was six points behind runner-up Rosengård, and another after league-leading Gothenburg.
A victory was thus more or less a must, if the team could catch on in the gold battle.
But it did not happen. There was not a single point.
The team certainly hung in nicely in the first half, which Rosengård won 2-1.
But in the second half there was never any talk about it. After Mimmi Larsson, who carefully took advantage of a return that Linköping's goalkeeper Matilda Haglund chattered out.
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The goalkeeper's board gives Rosengård 3-1 Photo: BildbyrånThe goal was Larsson's second for the evening, and there would be two more before the match was over.
The fourth was probably the prettiest. She rounded a rushing Matilda Haglund in the closing seconds and then put the ball in the open goal.