Djurgarden have recorded the biggest win of the Allsvenskan season with a remarkable 8-2 home victory over Sirius which keeps their late bid for Europe alive, though they still trail IFK Goteborg, who closed in on the top three thanks to a 2-0 win away at 10-man Oster.
The barrage of goals at 3Arena began as early as the fifth minute, when Sirius failed to fully clear a corner, and Matias Siltanen crossed to the back post where August Priske was waiting to nod home.
Five minutes later, the lead was doubled - this time a long throw was the visitors' undoing, as they gave Mikael Anderson space to bring the ball down and fire through a crowded box.
Still with just 19 minutes on the clock, it was 3-0, and again Siltanen was the provider for Priske, but this time he had much more to do. Cutting in from the left, his shot had no right to beat David Celic at his near post, but a howler from the goalkeeper allowed the ball to trickle through his fingers.
A beutiful curling strike from Isak Bjerkebo gave Sirius hope just before the half-hour mark, but that was all but extinguished 10 minutes later when Jeppe Okkels finished off a swift attack to make it 4-1 to the Stockholm side before half-time.
Just past the hour mark, Sirius scored their second long-range goal of the game when Leo Walta got his free-kick up and over the wall, only for Djurgarden to run away with it with three goals in the following 11 minutes.
Great work from Oskar Fallenius through the middle set up Tokmac Nguen to score the hosts' fifth, then Nguen turned provider to selflessly set up Anderson for his second just three minutes later.
Anderson may have been on a hat-trick, but it was he who teed up his teammate Priske to earn the match ball - Anderson sent in a cross from the right and Priske worked hard to get in front of his marker and head home.
With just under four minutes of the 90 remaining, the scoring was completed by Bo Hegland, who controlled well and fired low past the helpless Celic to round off an incredible 8-2 victory for the Iron Stoves.
Djurgarden stay seventh in the table, but after a mediocre first half of the campaign, they have put together a 10-match unbeaten run which has moved them to within three points of the European places. It's back-to-back losses for Sirius, who remain four points off the bottom three.
The one consolation for Sirius is that four-point difference did not get any smaller, which was thanks to Goteborg, who beat Oster 2-0 away from home.
A loss to Brommapojkarna had ended a great run for Goteborg, and they appeared to be suffering something of a hangover, as they needed Ivan Kricak to be sent off for two bookings in four minutes early in the second half to make headway this evening.
They took the lead just over 10 minutes after gaining the man advantage, and even that required a huge slice of luck. Kolbeinn Thordarsson's speculative shot took a huge deflection off teammate Max Fenger, wrongfooting the goalkeeper and dropping into the net.
Thordarsson would at least be credited with the goal which wrapped up the points in the 89th minute - applying a close-range finish after the home side failed to clear a free-kick sent into the box.
One point from their last two means only goal difference separates Oster from a resurgent Degerfors, while goal difference is now all that's keeping IFK behind third-placed AIK in the race for Europe.