There was a lot of emotion at Stadsparksvallen when Jönköping Södra hosted Kalmar FF in the first qualifying match for the Allsvenskan.

After just five minutes, referee Mohammed Al-Hakim had handed out three yellow cards, one to the home team and two to Kalmar players, and also blew for 1-0 when Rodeblad reached the top of the first corner of the match.

Rodeblad again

After 9.45, Kevin Rodeblad became a two-goal shooter, but not in the way he had intended.

He failed to kick off a right post by Kalmar and the ball instead rolled into his own goal.

Sebastian Ring shot 2-1 to Kalmar after 18 minutes.

It was a hard-pressed left-footed shot from distance that goalkeeper Frank Pettersson should perhaps have taken.

Kalmar took over the game more and more and was almost another goal in the first half.

Target hunting

In the 55th minute, Geir Andre Herrem stayed ahead and was able to push in 3-1 to Kalmar.

Jönköping frantically tried to get a reduction goal and Kalmar goalkeeper Lucas Hägg Johansson had to make a couple of qualified saves - especially from Edin Hamidovic when there was a quarter left.

Advantage Landskrona

In the qualifiers for the Superettan, the Division 1 team Brommapojkarna played 1-1 against the Superettanlaget Trelleborgs FF.

Oskar Fallenius gave BP the lead in the 82nd minute but in the 89th, Abdul Fatawu Safiu equalized for Trelleborg.

In the second match, Landskrona-Dalkurd defeated 2-0 after goals from Linus Olsson and Oscar Petersson.

All return matches are played on Sunday, Lucia Day.

CLIP: Jewelry G-man's statue before J-Södra's Important qualifiers (09 December 2020)

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In the clip above, Dan Josefsson tells why his family adorns the statue of J-Södra's legendary youth leader G-man.

Photo: Jonas Tubbin