This was the second meeting of the league’s two newest women’s teams, with the previous being a 2-1 home win for Dalvík/Reynir three weeks before. This rematch has one major story and that is Mimi Eiden. Born in Liberia, she was later adopted into a family in Minnesota. After a college soccer career at North Dakota and Montana, she has played for the Liberian national team and spent 2022 at Grindavík. If it was ever tough to be noticed in her adopted family, in which she had 16 siblings, a hat-trick in just 25 minutes last Sunday will have made her stand out in this match. The visitors pulled a goal back either side of the break, but Mimi added two more of her own.

Two of the more “veteran” squads met on the south coast monday, and it was closer than the hosts will have liked against a team that hasn’t won since 2020. Their early lead was followed by each team having a player sent off, the Afríka player receiving two yellows in two minutes whereas Þórhallur Aron took his lump in one go. A 3-0 half time lead was diminished by the 66th minute and Hafþór Berg’s second goal ended up being the winner despite Roderick Zamora completing a hat-trick from the penalty spot to set up a tense finish, but Stokkseyri held out.

Thursday saw a session of Comeback Club called to order, and the first rule of Comeback Club is that I love to talk about Comeback Club. There was a perfect first half for Keflavík with Ariela Lewis sccoring two in her Besta deild debut, having played two seasons at Grótta and the first half of this year at Afturelding. 10 minutes after the restart though, a resurgence was fomenting for FH. Snædís María made the start and Hildur Katrín got her first career Besta deild goal follwoing recall from a stint at ÍH where she bagged 13 goals in 12 third division games. Hildigunnur Ýr drew the sides level and it was Brooke Woodard who completed the remarkable comeback in the 89th minute.

The second rule of Comeback Club is that there must be a second game that meets the paramters of Comeback Club. One sxith division match had that and more on Thursday. Visiting team SR actually took the first lead, and hosts Smári had the first comeback of the meeting, striking three times before the half. After that, the real comeback began, Markús Pálmi and Theodór Unnar bagging a brace each and Benedikt Svavars also had a goal. With the result mostly in hand, the skaters got a player sent off for dissent either side of a Smári consolation goal.

It wasn’t really the most entertaining of matches for the neutral viewer, a disappointment considering the billing of Iceland’s two best teams facing off for a trophy ahead of the culmination of their title battle in the league. It’s virtually compulsory to include a cup final in the highlights of a week though, and it certainly was a highlight for Valur. Surely one of, if not the most dominant sides in Icelandic football history is this squad under the leadership of Pétur Pétursson, and they now add another cup title to their impressive run of consecutive league titles. It’s unfortuantely a run of consecutive cup final losses for Blikar though – they’ve collected runners-up medals the last 3 seasons, but they did win it the year before that so we can’t pity them too much.

Finally we get to the end of a busy week, and this summary is a brief one: Not many teams in the country are in worse form than Samherjar. KM were beneficiaries of that to collect their first win of the season. Not only did they survive having a player sent off, but Rúben Filipe scored the first of a pair of goals just a minute later, which ended up being the winner.

Not their first win of the year, but a surprise one for the 11th placed Thunders against 3rd place Víkingur. Sævar Þór played hat-trick hero to put KF within 2 points of safety with 5 very tough games left, including matchups with teams currently in 1st, 12th, 4th, 7th, and 6th. The visitors from Ólafsvík have now lost 3 of their last 5, but are only 3 points off of the promotion spots.

Last but not least, the top 2 faced off in 4.deild and it was the leaders who opened up a 5-point gap in the race. Ýmir have a game in hand however, but so do closest chasers Árborg who are only a point further back. Kórinn’s second team took the lead in this game, but the player-manager in Sauðárkrókur drew the sides level not long after. It was fairly late that the winner came from Sverrir Hrafn, and even later that David Bjelobrk settled it for good.