by the stars, we hope

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obviously we can rule out goalkeeper, but other than that i can't really say for sure. (and i'm going at this entirely based on s1e2 because i don't remember her ever bringing it up.)

looking at this one it seems like bjärstad might be attacking towards the right given how many players with blue jerseys there's on the right. then again, pretty much all football we actually see happens on the midfield around the halfway line so i can't be 100% sure - and many of the passes we can see make very little sense in terms of making the game progress in either direction and in helping determine which team attacks which way.

if we go with the assumption that bjärstad is going for the goal on the right, then it seems like that would make rosh a defender. she's the second from left here.

here we see rosh as one of the two players on the far left. her positioning would make her a central defender, but given how we see her closer to the touch line a couple of times would also suggest a wingback.

there's a couple of instances where there's players playing lower than her - here when she does her dance there's two players on the left which would indicate that those players are the central defence - which would support the wingback theory.

i know roles aren't fixed, players move all over the pitch and are thrown into different playing positions depending on the opponent. bjärstad looks like they're playing with a 3-4-3 formation here (as does their opponent, actually).

if bjärstad were attacking towards the left, it would suggest rosh is a striker or a winger. however, i don't feel like anything she does on the pitch really backs that. i could be entirely wrong though because again, this match is very hard to figure out given it doesn't move much past the halfway line.

numbers on the jerseys aren't much help because they're not as fixed as they once were, but i feel like if she were a striker, she'd be wearing #9 (or #10), not #24. not that that number makes much sense for a defender either, honestly.

FYI: I’ve never played football myself, only watched it, so any feedback from real life football players is more than welcome.

What threw me off in this shot was the absence of the center-back if they’re playing 4-4-2 (4 defenders, 4 midfielders, 2 forwards, the most common system in Sweden). But we see her together with (at least) two other defenders being a bit more idle when Bjärstad is attacking here:

If we assume that Bjärstad scores to the right, number 21 is the center forward in the blue team (we see Rosh battling with her here):

And we also see Rosh collaborating with the midfielders in trying to remove the ball from her here:

At first I didn't realize that there were more defenders between them and the goal here. But in a way it would be so in character for Rosh to dance and just let the opponent land herself in offside position 😂

In this last shot, we see the Bjärstad defenders trying break an attack from the forward in the opposing team (number 21) but she ends up doing a back-heel kick that her team mates probably are to far away to catch.

actually i think what supports rosh being a wingback (earlier she would have been called a right back but modern football requires more attacking, so she’d need to combine defending and attacking, hence the new term) is that usually it is easier for wingbacks to double as centre backs than the other way round.

Chapter 5

Simon tries to make sense of Wilhelm’s slump, and his own growing attachment, only to find the distance between journalist and subject narrowing too quickly. Simon receives a warning that forces him to confront what everyone else might see—and what it could cost them both.

p.s. I just want to say the biggest thank you for the reposts and comments here on tumblr, and comments on the last chapter. They were just such beautiful, analytical, soulful, wonderful insights into your minds and how you’re perceiving the characters and the story, and I cannot say enough how much that means to me. Anyways, thank you, you lovely divas.