Helsingborgs hit Kalmar for seven
The win lifts last seasons champions into fourth place but they trail leaders Elfsborg by four points having played a game more.
Icelandic striker Alfie Finboggason scored twice in the first half as Helsingborgs went in at the interval leading 4-1. Kalmar pulled a goal back in the 52nd minute through Pape Diouf but the homeside rattled in three more goals without reply to run out easy winners.
Age Hareide is in his second spell in charge of Hellsingborgs and has turned the season around since arriving in June when they had drifted down to seventh place in the table.
“Under Hareide we play a more direct style of play,” midfielder Adrian Gashi explained. “It suits us better, and several of the players here know Hareide from his last period at the club.
“He came when everyone had written us off .We were twelve points behind the leaders, but when he arrived we knew what Hareide requires of us as players. It is an advantage that he knows the club very well.”
Hareide had a spells as a player with Manchester City and Norwich City where Martin O’Neill was a team-mate with Helsingborgs beating Sunderland 2-0 in friendly on August 4.
Like most Scandinavian coaches 58-year-old Hareide is a keen student of British football and was in charge of the Norwegian international side that was drawn in the same World Cup 2006 qualifying group as Scotland.
Scotland lost 1-0 at Hampden to Norway but won 2-1 in Oslo with Kenny Miller scoring both goals.
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