Djurgården didn’t break much of a sweat against Halmstad on Monday night. A 3-0 win at 3Arena, two goals from Bo Hegland before half-time, one more from Kristian Lien early in the second half, and just like that the Stockholm side climb up to fourth in Allsvenskan.
They’d built the night up beforehand too, calling it Djurgårdströjan Day, and over 21,000 people showed up for it. From the first whistle you could tell how this one was going to go. Djurgården had the ball most of the time, pushing it out wide through Oskar Fallenius and Miro Tenho, and that kind of pressure usually cracks a team eventually. It did here, just before the half-hour mark. There was a scramble in the Halmstad box, their keeper Tim Rönning somehow saved twice in the space of a couple of seconds, but a third ball came through and Hegland was right there to poke it in. 1-0.
Give Halmstad some credit, though — bottom of the table, desperate for anything, and they actually found their footing right at the end of the first half. Best spell of the game for them, honestly. Didn’t matter. Right on the whistle for half-time, Piotr Johansson swung in a low cross from the right and Hegland got to the back post first to make it 2-0. Second goal of the night for him, ninth of the season, and the fans didn’t stop singing his name the rest of the night.
Whatever Halmstad were hoping for at the break didn’t survive long. Twelve minutes in, Fallenius slipped Lien through and he just calmly finished past Rönning. 3-0. That’s eight for Lien this season now, five of them in just his last four games, and he’d already scored twice in the previous match, a 4-2 win over Häcken. After that goal Djurgården basically coasted, gave up a counter here and there but were never really worried.
It’d been a bit of a weird week for the club too, not just on the pitch. Head coach Jani Honkavaara had to sit up in the stands — he picked up a third yellow in the Häcken game and got himself banned from the touchline — and the team was already dealing with a few injuries and a suspension on top of that. None of it showed. Piotr Johansson said after the game that it wasn’t always simple against a Halmstad team he called desperate and dangerous, but that Djurgården stayed in control for most of it even with the odd break they conceded.
Over on the Halmstad side, defender Filip Schyberg wasn’t really trying to spin it. He said the team keeps having these bad patches during games and keeps paying for them, a trend the full box score backs up once you look at how the game actually played out. They’re still last with six points and now head into a home game against Häcken hoping something clicks. Djurgården, on the other hand, haven’t lost since the restart and are just a point off a European spot going into their next one against Örgryte.
MATCH SUMMARY
Djurgården 3-0 Halmstad Allsvenskan, Round 12 — 3Arena, Stockholm Monday, 13 July 2026 Referee: Adi Aganovic Attendance: 21,000+
Goals: 28′ Bo Hegland (Djurgården) 1-0 45+’ Bo Hegland (Djurgården) 2-0 (assist: Piotr Johansson) 57′ Kristian Lien (Djurgården) 3-0 (assist: Oskar Fallenius)
Djurgården (4-2-3-1): Rinne — Johansson, Une, Tenho, Larsson (Ståhl 71) — Stensson, Finndell (Siltanen 60) — Åslund (Zugelj 81), Hegland, Fallenius (Okkels 60) — Lien (Asoro 81)
Halmstad (4-2-3-1): Rönning — Gregor, Schyberg (Mäenpää 71), Tõugjas, Kaib — Allansson, Ascone — Kapsimalis, Arvidsson, Carneil (Ilary 71) — Faraj
Result: Djurgården move up to 4th on 19 points. Halmstad remain bottom on 6 points. Next up: Djurgården vs Örgryte / Halmstad vs Häcken
