Umeå IK are newcomers in the damallsvenskan and have the knife to the throat with two rounds left.
After seven straight games without a victory, the team has fallen to relegation place and this weekend awaits tenth-placed Djurgården, which is only one point ahead of Västerbotten.
- There is nothing to complain about, everyone in the team is set on it being a must-have match, says Umeå's Sarah Mellouk to SVT Sport.
The midfielder says that it is noticeable that there are two important matches waiting but that at the same time not much has changed in the locker room.
- There is not much bullshit or complaining and we have worked with that.
Both in the elite and in damallsvenskan, we have had a sports psychologist who we talked to.
I have noticed a huge difference.
Both for me as a person and within the team.
- This applies both in how to be towards each other when things are going well and when things are going badly.
It's not that everything is great all the time, but more how we handle adversity during matches and training and how we stick together as a team.
I think that has helped us a lot and I think it will help us a lot now.
The conversations have been both individual and within the team and now before the end, the focus is to turn the press to something positive.
- Either we can go out on Sunday and be damn scared, think about what happens if we lose the match and get lost in the thoughts.
Instead, we want to feel, damn what fun it should be with two final matches and that we have come here as newcomers and that we have everything in our own hands.
But is it not difficult to think so?
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Of course it can be difficult.
Some feel that it should be damn fun and that you want to be a match winner.
Then there are probably some who are scared shitless and have worse thoughts, but that's why we talk about it.
Because if we can talk about it, it can probably help everyone who thinks so.