"I had quite a good chance to score and then they were the better team, says Kindvall. But maybe if we had got the first goal, maybe we had a chance. We were very good when we didn't have the ball ourselves. We had good organisation in the defence. And Forest were very good without the ball as well. It was more difficult for us to play against a team who were more like our team. We played the English way."
"Houghton had been on the books at Fulham and Brighton without making an appearance for them when, at 22, he joined Hastings United as player-manager. He moved on to Maidstone, where his assistant was Roy Hodgson, before becoming assistant to Bobby Robson at Ipswich. Houghton had been one of the keenest students on the coaching course established by the Football Association's technical director, Allen Wade, which sought to break down football into its component parts, focusing training on match situations."
Early in the 1979 European Cup final a chance by Jan-Olov Kindvall was thwarted when Peter Shilton caught a lobbed ball, removing Malmo's best opportunity to score and diminishing their chances against Nottingham Forest. Kindvall says he had a good chance and that scoring first might have changed the outcome. Malmo displayed strong defensive organisation and succeeded when not in possession, but found it difficult against a team that played similarly. Bob Houghton introduced an English-style approach to Malmo, having coached in England and studied Allen Wade's FA coaching course, advocating a back four, zonal marking and direct play. Malmo shifted from a libero man-marking system as professionalism increased under chairman Eric Persson.
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