When it's Advent football, snow in the air and it has been three weeks since the Swedish Championship gold was secured - then Malmö FF is looking for other sources of motivation.

Before the away match against Varbergs Bois in the penultimate round, coach Jon Dahl Tomasson said that MFF wanted to beat the club's own record for the biggest victory margin since the Allsvenskan got 16 teams.

In 2017, Malmö won the series with seven points to AIK.

The hunger to keep the eight-point lead to Elfsborg seemed at least a little while.

Resource optimization

MFF put high speed and hard pressure from kick-off and forced three corners during the first 90 seconds of the match.

But then Varberg started to make it difficult for the champion team.

With risk minimization in its own half of the plan and resource optimization going forward, Bois created most of the dangerous attacks.

MFF defender Lasse Nielsen did not manage to connect with it, as his team mates had hoped, and the ball went out.

Keanin Ayer snatched the ball, and the 20-year-old South African sent in his first Allsvenskan goal in his career.

Varberg often threatened with quick counterattacks when all Malmö players did not give one hundred percent in the home run.

The MFF players looked frustrated when it came to halftime break.

Varberg attacks

After a break, Varberg continued to produce in quick attacks.

In the 52nd minute, Junes Barny banked in 2-0, after an exact deep lead pass from Tashreeq Matthews, another of Varberg's young South Africans.

Then Jon Dahl Tomasson replaced Isaac Kiese Thelin and Adi Nalic to try to pump energy into the attacking game.

But it was defender Lasse Nielsen who reduced by nodding on a corner variant with half an hour left to play.

Ola Toivonen's volley shot in the crossbar was the closest equalizer that the champion team came in the still snowfall.

Then the great shooter Astrit Selmani sent in the match-killing 3-1 goal for Varberg.

But before that, he himself had probably decided the battle for the shooting league.

His tough tackle meant a yellow card and suspension in the final round.

Selmani therefore stays on 15 goals.

Now most say that Norrköping's Christoffer Nyman will be the top scorer of the year.

He stands on 16 goals with two games left to play.