Linköping as just the one victory in the last two Allsvenskan matches took a long-awaited victory at Arena Linköping.
Portia Boakye directed an elbow up to the face of Petra Johansson who was walking downhill.
The referee had no doubts and he gave a penalty in favor.
The 32-year-old defender, who recently signed a new contract with Dif, gave his team a real uphill straight away.
Shortly afterwards, Cornelia Kapocs was able to score her first goal of the match.
The striker met a free kick from the right with his head and safely nodded in the lead goal.
A quarter of an hour later, she increased to 2-0 after a nice finish against the far post with her right foot.
Linköping increased to 3-0 directly in the second half.
Now it was Kapocs who instead played until Uchenna Kanu who scored his seventh goal of the season.
Nellie Lilja reduced the away team's lead to 0 - 1 with a superb free kick strike that flew in just under the far top corner.
But the guests did not come any closer.
With the victory, Östgötaklubben climbs up to a fifth place in the damallsvenska table.