The San Cugat del Vallés coach is in his third season as Hammarby manager, in the Swedish league, with which he continues to achieve great results for another year. The Stockholm team is in fifth place in the Allsvenskan with 35 points, after a spectacular series that has once again brought the club to the top zone of the championship, a success for the club despite having undergone a profound renewal that has made it a of the youngest power groups in the country.
Nobody has scored more points in the last few days and this series, which makes the team the best at the moment, started on matchday 12 when Hammarby beat Brommapojkarna at home 2-1. Since then, nine more games have been played with six wins, one draw and only two defeats.
Thus, the team from Cifuentes is the team that has scored the most points in the last 10 games, with a total of 22, surpassing the 20 of Djurgardens or the 19 of Elfsborg and Häcken, the first and third placed teams in the league, respectively. As if that wasn’t enough, Hammarby is also the team that has collected the most points in their last five games and is also undefeated after four wins and a draw.
Elfsborg was precisely one of Hammarby’s victims in this winning streak. The Stockholm team defeated the current Allsvenskan leaders 1-0 on matchday 19 on August 13th. Martí Cifuentes’ team will look to repeat such a result against a strong rival next Sunday when they host Malmö, currently second with 46 points, at the Tele2 Arena.
Europe on the horizon
With eight rounds left, Hammarby dreams of climbing further up the table and repeating last year’s success. And Martí’s men managed to finish third, which gave them access to the contention of the previous stage of the Conference League.
However, Hammarby had no luck was paired with Twente of the Eredivise, who was considered the bogeyman of the draw and against whom he managed to take the tie into extra time even though no one expected him to prevail. Now, with 24 points at stake, Martí Cifuentes, whose success does not go unnoticed given the constant rumors of interest from British clubs, is leading the attempt at a machada that will once again make Hammarby one of the greatest in Swedish football since his Arrival.
