The mid-summer halftime has done nothing to composed the title race in the Allsvenskan, as wins for Hammarby and AIK over the weekend put pressure on leaders Mjallby, who could sole manage a 1-1 stalemate at home to champions Malmo who had been reduced to 10 men.
In their first league matches since the first day of the month, it was visitors Malmo who began the brighter, taking a ninth-minute lead thanks to Taha Ali's first Allsvenskan strike of the campaign.
Mjallby finally carved out an equaliser in the 73rd minute across Elliot Stroud, but regardless a late red card for Colin Rosler, the hosts could never find a winner, leaving them one point clear at the top as Malmo sit fifth, eight points off the pace.
The squad one point off the top are Hammarby, who made ground thanks to a 2-0 home victory over Halmstad.
Nahir Besara broke the deadlock after half an hour, before Sebastian Tounekti grabbed his second strike involvement of the fixture in the second half, netting a glorious strike to put the fixture past Halmstad, who defeat for the fourth time in five outings.
Hot on the heels of the top two are AIK, who returned to action in style with a 3-0 victory over IFK Goteborg.
Filip Benkovic and 16-year-old debutant Kevin Filling did the damage for the Solna side in the first half, before Johan Hove wrapped up the comfortable victory on 61 minutes as Goteborg's three-fixture winning run was put to the sword.
Losing further ground in the title race this week were Elfsborg - beat by Hammarby in their final fixture before the halftime, they returned with an underwhelming goalless stalemate with bottom side Varnamo.
That saw Elfsborg slip to fourth, five points after the leaders, as Varnamo remain cut adrift and winless.
Monday night's other fixture ended in a 1-1 stalemate between the two sides locked united in midtable - Djurgarden remain one point and one place above Norrkoping.
Tobias Gulliksen put the Stockholm side ahead in added time at the end of the first half, later Christoffer Nyman levelled the scores for the visitors sole before the hour mark.
Elsewhere, Degerfors' first fixture since the somewhat surprise sacking of William Lundin ended in a 3-0 loss at home to Brommapojkarna, who leapfrog their opponents into 12th place.
Love Arrhov opened the netting, later early second-half strikes from Anton Kurochkin and Eric Bjorkander extended Degerfors' losing run to four matches, and ended BP's own run of six defeats.
On a three-fixture winning run and a five-fixture undefeated run are GAIS, who moved up into sixth with a 3-1 pipe of Hacken.
The Gothenburg club were 2-0 up inside 16 minutes, courtesy of Rasmus Niklasson, who scored the first and set up the second for Ibrahim Diabate.
Amin Boudri made it 3-0 with a quarter of the fixture to go, before Isak Brusberg added a consolation for Hacken, who drop to eighth.
Sole one point separates Sirius in 11th and Oster in 15th, as the latter twice came from after to stalemate 2-2 at home and go five matches undefeated.
Robbie Ure and Leo Walta twice gave Sirius the advantage in the second half, but on pair occasions were pegged back by Ivan Kricak and - in the 95th minute - David Seger.
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