The meeting between AIK and Degerfors was a match with two faces.
First half: AIK dominance and a 1-0 goal through Vincent Thill in the twelfth minute.
Second half: a slow-paced story with few scoring chances and an equalizer through Rasmus Örqvist in the 53rd minute.
After Degerfors' 1-1 draw, AIK went for a winning goal and three points in order not to lose ground in the gold battle, but if the truth be told, they had desperately struggled to create anything of value.
Instead, the visitors came close to stealing three points in the 83rd minute when Nikola Djurdjic found himself in a golden position in AIK's penalty area.
The 36-year-old was extremely close to bumping the ball into the open goal from just one meter away, but AIK defender Sotirios Papagiannopoulos somehow managed to clear the ball away.
And in the fifth additional minute, it was even closer to an away victory when Degerfors got into a dangerous counterattack and managed to play away AIK goalkeeper Kristoffer Nordfeldt.
Joseph-Claude Gyau basically had a completely open goal to shoot at but instead poked the forehead of Axel Björnström who was standing on the goal line like a saving angel.
- It went quickly, I just tried to read where he was going to shoot and then take it with the closest body part, says Björnström, who was extremely dissatisfied with AIK's effort.
- A huge disappointment.
The first half is okay and then we slouch in the second, they score 1-1 and we lose the rhythm, it's too bad.
A point at home against Degerfors and a loss away to Varberg, it's just too bad.