But now, le'ts plucked up the courage and tell the match. I must do it. Unfortunatly.
First of all: we won. That's no obvious. We won 5-2. That's seems we didn't have any problems. This is wrong, we had many problems, and we had problems playing against a team wich surely hadn't many talents.
Let's analyze.
The squad.
We played with the usual 4-3-3, but Perry put a very offensive squad, one of the most offensive I've ever seen. The midfield and the attack were formed by five strikers, or almost forwards: Helland, Chibuike, Mikkelsen, Soderlund and Bille. The question come it easily: why Perry didn't try the 4-2-3-1 module? It was the perfect day to test it. Indeed he put almost all the forwards he had (but Riski that was injuried). I don't know why he didn't try the 4-2-3-1, but it was.
The defenders were Midtsjo (another player tested in the place of Gamboa, after the debacle of Mikkelsen), Strandberg (substitued by Ronning, wich finally played after the bad accident he had last summer), Dorsin finally in the right place as fullback and the "new entry" in the role, Jensen. Jensen played as a central defender, but it was clear that he couldn't play there. Another epic fail signed Perry, fortunatly during the pre-season. Some supporters said that in this matches we had to use the youngsters, in order to gain them more experiences. I don't agree with them, in our situation we have to find out many way of playing, in order to win when we won't have Gamboa and Mix, or anyone else. So we have to try our players in other roles. But Perry every time got wrong. You can be wrong with Mikkelsen, with Dorsin, but sooner or later you have to do the right thing. Jensen is a midfielder, and there he had to play. We had problem, of course, on the opponents cross, because our defenders (expecially Jensen) were in the wrong place in the wrong time.
And the opponents were not very good at playing, we all know this. And we could see it when Soderlund scored. Ok, If you are a bit smart you are able to comprehend that I didn't like very much Soderlund, but that's my problem, don't attach importance to it. Soderlund indeed could wrong almost two goals, that were more difficult to got wrong that to scored. Lonely in front of the net, he was able to head in the wrong way and not to score. That was incredible.
We wrong many things in that match, but the most significative was the one that brought to the 2-3. Sormo was able to wrong a very easy passing, feeding the ball to the opponents that, he couldn't believe it, scored.
But Sormo is young and he have to gain some experiences, isn't him?
About youngesters, we could see the young, (I would say the kid) John Hou, that played with the first team. A dream that came true for him. We hope to have found out a good player.
Mix played as an halfback, and he was the only midfielder that could defend, instead of attacking. Mix wasn't allowed by Hoftun and the medical sector to play with his nation team against the Ukraine, because he couldn't play the last two matches, because he was injuried. Mix was a bit disappointed, but played the same.
I was disappointed by Bille, that played very bad, but he wasn't his fault. Perry made him play as a wing, and he's not able to play in that position, and we saw it.
I just want, in order to conclude the analysis, to talk about Midstjo. Maybe we have found out a good fullback, a good substitute. He had good overview, good passing, calm with the ball, and he was extremely good to challenge the man. I've to remind you we played against Levanger, but indeed he played well.
In this week we bought a player but lost another one. Brede Moe went to the Bodo Glimt, because according to him, in this team couldn't show him off the good player he is.
But we finally bought Gamst Pedersen, that yesterday had the conference press, and said that he's very ambitious, and he wants to win everything with the Rosenborg. We hope this.
But what can we do with another wing? We already have Mikkelsen, Helland and Riku. Ok, he has experience, but he's old too. Did Hoftun the right choice? We've just seen in these years the "good" choice he did, but I'm hopeful. Gamst indeed has problems right now, and according to the society it would be foolish to start too hard and make him play, but within reasonably short time we'll probably get him fit to play.
