Kenyan international Collins Sichenje featured full minutes as AIK lost to their arch-rivals Göteborg by a solitary goal in the Stockholm and Gothenburg intercity rivalry on Monday evening.Sichenje who was red-carded in the win over Djurgårdens the previous weekend was drafted straight into the first eleven for his third start of the season after serving his one-match suspension.Erick ‘Marcelo’ Ouma was missed the match day squad with a lower-body injury according to the club, but it does not seem to be a cause for concern as he is currently in rehab training.Uppvärmningen genomförd framför bortasektionen. Regnet över Göteborg har lättat och vi är redo för avspark kl 19:10. pic.twitter.com/a0uHJpkA6c— AIK Fotboll (@aikfotboll) October 24, 2022 Henry Meja, who has hardly featured for AIK since making the move from Tusker FC, was an unused substitute despite AIK seeming lethargic in front of goal and needing more firepower.For his second game in charge as the new acting head coach, Peter Wennberg made wholesome changes to the starting 11, with Sichenje, Sebastian Larsson, Axel Bjornström, Jesper Ceesay, and Erik Ring all being introduced into the starting team.In the build-up to the game, Sichenje let the man he was marking out jump him to flick the ball for Hosam Aiesh who then set up Eman Marković to break the deadlock with the only goal that mattered in the match.Unlike in the previous matches where Sichenje seemed erratic with his tackles, perhaps due to the change in his preferred position, he was calm on the ball as well as on the tackles but more minutes would do him good.The loss leaves AIK’s chances of playing in Europe next season in limbo as they need to win in their remaining two fixtures and hope that the results of the teams ahead of them go in favor of AIK.
