Zibaldone 22 March 2014 / Kalmar-Rosenborg 1-1

This week Rosenborg played the penultimate friendly, before the start of the season, against Kalmar , Sweden finished fourth last season. The match ended 1-1. This was the starting line-up:

Daniel Örlund ; Christian Gamboa - Dorsin - Per Verner Rønning - Jørgen Skjelvik , Mike Jensen - Mix - Morten Gamst Pedersen , Nicki Bille - Alexander Søderlund - Riku Riski .

Gamst Pedersen was in the starting line-up, the former star of Blackburn , who arrived few days ago free from Turkey. His was a good match on the wings , and made very good passes to the forwards, that however have not finalized the chances.
The first half was dominated by Rosenborg, so much that the Norwegian team takes only six minutes to score. Gamboa made a cross from the right, and Bille Nielsen ( former Rayo Vallecano and Reggina) with an overhead kick made the ball go into the net , thanks to the goalkeeper of the Kalmar, that made an  incredible fluff. Kalmar, during the first half of the match, seems to be not even entered in the field , and had only two occasions, but also because given away by the defenders of Rosenborg. Ronning, who had just returned from an injury that kept him away from the fields for six months, it is not in his best physical conditions, but it seems to be motivated and ready to give the best of himself. Skjelvik on the wing does his best, going backwards and forwards on the left, creating many chances to score, not realized by Soderlund . Mix ( Mikkel Diskerud ) plays a decent match, but seems to have no desire to play, probably because it was a friendly. Perhaps it is still alive the controversy between him and the society, which didn't allowed him to play one of the last friendly against Ukraine with his national team . Who was completely outside the match was Riku Riski . The newcomer had raised many hopes in the hearts of supporters, playing a very good match after his arriving in Trondheim, but now seems not to be at the level of a team that wants to win. The common hope is that he wakes up early and shows his full potential .
Bille tried to do his best, but it is clear that he cannot play in that position. It is not a wing , it is a central striker , and so must be . Always tries to do the best thing , but it is often difficult , and it's not coincidence that  scored when he was central.
At 30 ' , however, Kalmar scored,  and from that moment on dominate the match until the end. Perry when the match ended sayed: " My Rosenborg has many problems in defense." Luckily he noticed it. Everyone noticed it, from months, but the situation does not seem to be changed. The return of Tore Reginiussen is still a mystery , and maybe Dorsin is ready for retirement. Rosenborg left too much spaces to Kalmar , which advanced and wrong on more than one occasion . Fortunately the Kalmar is not the Real Madrid, and they wasted many chances to score, when the forward was alone in front of the goalkeeper .
In the second half entered Chibuike , the "diamond" of this team, but failed to change the match as he had done in the other friendlies.
A game that does not add anything new, but had at least one positive element: Gamst Pedersen , the man who, with his experience, can lead this team to victory.

Zibaldone 15 March 2014

Here I am again to talk about, of course, Rosenborg. Tomorrow we'll play against Kalmar FF, the real first test of the season, and we won't have some players, that are still injuried. 
Tore Reginiussen is still injuried, he had also to stay on ultrasound, in order to see when he could come back, but from the medical staff it is said that we've to keep calm, because it's better to have him at the best, even if this would mean to have him later on the weeks.
Perry had to compose the defense with Gamboa, Ronning, Dorsin and Skjelvik. But Ronning is still not ready for the whole match. Indeed this will be the squad, with the 4 defenders Perry tested: Daniel Örlund-Cristian Gamboa, Micke Dorsin, Per Verner Rønning, Jørgen Skjelvik - Mike Jensen, Mix, Gamst Pedersen - Nicki Bille, Alexander Søderlund, Riku Riski.

Someone said that at midfield we have many problems, because we have so many players, like Mike Jensen, Jonas Svensson, Mix, Daniel Berntsen, John Chibuike, Fredrik Midtsjø, Pål André Helland and Bent Sørmo, the "magnificient seven". I've to say that Midtsjo could be a great resource for us later on, as subsitute of Gamboa. He demonstrated against Levanger what he can do as fullback, but we've to see him against a stronger team. With the Kalmar could have been a good chance to see him, he could demonstrate how he good he was, but Perry decided in a different way. Maybe he'll shift him as fullback during the match. 
I insist on Midtsjo because Perry tested so many players as fullbacks, but nobody did like Midtsjo did (I repeat, Midtsjo played against a weak team). He tried Mikkelsen, Dorsin, but none of them did well. Now, that we've find out a good substitue, he didn't test him. 
In that list of midfielder, there's Helland. But Helland is a forward instead, we all know it. 
He could be considered as lateral midfielder if Perry played with a 4-2-3-1, or something like this. But Perry insists on the 4-3-3, and so that problems doesn't exist.
But reading the squad we can see a great surprise: Gamst Pedersen as midfielder, lateral midfielder. Yes, he can be a midfielder, but as I could see, he's very good at attacking. We have so many forwards, Perry in the last matches used to place in the field a lot of strikers, but according to me in the wrong roles. 
Bille, for example, did very bad when he played as a wing in attack. And we've to consider also that he broke up with his girlfriend, and maybe he could not be perfect tomorrow. But he's a professionist, we know it, and he'll have to play at his best. 
Perry still wants try Soderlund as pivot, with Riku near him. No comment, I wrote about Sode many many times in the past.
What make me laugh, is that Perry seems to test new kind of squads and modules, but indeed nothing changed during this pre-season. We've seen only players shifted in many roles, but nothing clear. The match we played demonstrated two things, according  to me: the first one, that we need Chibuike in every match, and the second one that we cannot play with the 4-3-3 at all. Using almost 4 forwards, it's impossible to win, we could have perfect halfbacks, but we don't have. Mix is very good, but he cannot work lonely in the defensive phase. 
Concerning Mix, still goes on the discussion with the society after he wasn't allowed to play with his national team against Ukraine. Hoftun maybe is yet thinking about a way to sell him. 
In this week Arni Vilhjálmsson trained with us, but the society rejected him. As I wrote on twitter, starts the countdown to see when he'll become a talented. Hoftun pay attention. 

Finally, it turned out that Rosenborg asked to have the UEFA Supercup in its stadion, at Lerkendal, in 2017, for the centenary of the club. 

Zibaldone: 9 March 2014

Hi everybody, today I've to talk about the friendly match against the Levanger, the former team of almost half of RBk team. Ok, I overdid, but many players played with the Levanger, before they went into out team. They were Svensonn and Ronning that played yesterday. 
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.

Rosenborg-Sundsvall 0-0

As I said in the last post, we had problem with some players, that couldn't play because they were injuried. They were Mix, Reginiussen, Saelnes, Soderlund and Strandberg. So we played with the usual squad (4-3-3) but as fullback Mikkelsen, and Berntsen from the beginning. The other "new" thing was Dorsin as centrale defender, but we've seen him in that role in other matches yet.

It was a very boring match, of course, but we must trust Mr. Hansen, who said that he's preparing the team to gradually improve during the season. I wish he's right. 

In order to analyse this match I will consider three players: Mikkelsen, Bille and Chibuike.

Mikkelsen

No, if Perry had any doubt about Mikkelsen as a substitute for Gamboa during the World Cup, I sincerely hope that he has quickly realized that the thing cannot be done. Mikkelsen is a forward, not a fullback, and it was clear during the match. He was ever in attack, and rarely came back in defense when opponents attacked ("attacked", tried to create some small problem to us, just to create a minimum of show).

They easily overcame him, like in one occasion for them, when Mikkelsen sliced the ball with the head and the opponent went in the area. Fortunatly the opponent wasn't CR7, so he didn't score.

Perry understood the problem Mikkelsen could create in that role, so he made him go in attack, replacing Riku with Gamboa in the second half.

Obviously Perry had to do this, because Riku never entered in the field yesterday, he was really out of the game. He slept all the time, and when he took the ball, every time did the wrong thing. It was really incredible, and of course he was replaced. 

But the problem reamin: who can replace Gamboa? Dorsin is used as substitute of Reginiussen, and we haven't a real fullback who can replace Gamboa this summer. If he won't buy someone in the next transfer market, safe bet we'll run the risk of coming to a bad end.

Bille

Bille, according to me, is an excellent player, if he wants to. But in that squad (4-3-3) he rarely find a good position to play. During the match he often played as playmaker 

(untill Chibuike came in replacing an absent Svensonn), but when he had to come into the area (in order to take the ball with the head and then score) he didn't do it, and nobody took the ball that Helland or Mikkelsen crossed. 

I think it's better to play with a 4-2-3-1, because with the 4-3-3 we can win only if we meet weak teams or the midfielder go into the area to score. But this rarely happen with our pkayers, Chibuike is a good player, but he stopped himself when he has the ball, in the borderline of the area, and seldom he come inside. Mix the same, is more a halfback, and Berntsen, as we saw yesterday, like Chibuike, doesn't come into the area. The only one who can do this is Bille, but isn't in a good mood I think, and the other one is Soderlund. I'd rather not to talk about Soderlund.

Chibuike

Just few words about Chibuike. He brings the light in the team when he plays. Yesterday, as he entered, made only good passes; and as playmaker, he was an excellent assist-man. We've to make him resign the contract with Rosenborg, very soon, because without him, it will be very hard to win something.

Zibaldone 02/21/2014: waiting for saturday

As we knew, Ole Saelnes and Tore Reginiussen won't play that match saturday because they're still injuried. With them, we have unvailable also Mix, Soderlund and Strandberg.

Mr. Hansen, then, has to try in the squad the substitutes of them. But he has also to try the substitutes of Gamboa and Mix. Both of them, unfortunatly for us, fortunatly for them, will have to play the World Cup in Brazil this summer, in the middle of the season. In this way spoke Mr. Hansen

Yes, it is true that we have struggled with injuries and it is sad. But it also gives other players the chance to show what they are good for. We have three young players in the squad against Sundsvall. It is Aslak Witry, Bent Sørmo and Martin Lundal

Nevertheless Chibuike will be in the bench in the starting line-up. Indeed this is the squad:

Örlund; Mikkelsen, Moe, Dorsin, Skjelvik; Jensen, Svensson, Berntsen; Helland, Bille, Riski

In this way I think, during the match, we will see more of a 4-2-3-1 than a 4-3-3 classic. This because Helland and Riski use to take the ball in the midfield and then cross in the area, or go in the center and try to kick. Bille will be the pivot, but if necessary will be able to play behind the two forwards Helland and Riski.

However Berntsen has to improve himself in that role, and Perry did very well to make him play in that role and not Chibuike or Bille. He has to test every player to create a good team. He has to know how much a player can give to the team and how.

We can see also Mikkelsen as fullback, in place of Gamboa. That's because, as I wrote, Gamboa won't be in Norway during the summer, and we have to find out a subsitute (seeing that the society has no money to buy anyone...)

This could be strange, because Mikkelsen is a forward. Maybe Perry had seen during the workouts that he can play as right-fullback. We hope so, but we need too the forward-Mikkelsen, we'll not be able to use Mikkelsen as fullback so long.

It's strange that Perry won't use Dorsin as right-fullback, but... we can only see if this will be a good choice or not.

Rosenborg - Djurgarden 2-1

We won. It was a very boring match but we won. Since the pre-season started, we won three matches, drawn one, and loss one. At Abra-Hallen the last time we drew against the Kristiansund.

It's very hard to do an analysis of the match, it was very boring, and I've to admit that the field, the place, makes the match more boring than it actually was.

The first half was well-balanced, the Djurgarden attacked, but they didn't create many problems. We tried to have counter-attacks but we didn't take advantage of our chances. As usual.

Riku ran, ran, ran, overcame the opponents, it was all right, but at the time of the cross, punctually, he missed it. It was incredible when a mate intercepted the ball, made the counter-attack, then fed the ball to Riku that missed the cross. Again. 

Later in the match he had a good chance to score. He ran, overcame the opponent, he shifted into the center, kicked, but it was a very weak shot. Useless. Not a good day for him. Like Bille. Bille too missed a lot of passes yesterday, and it wasn't concentrated.

We weren't very cinycal, just for change, at all, and inconclusive too. We were able to make crosses from the wings, but nobody took the ball. In theory we would have a striker in the middle area. However not very often.
I repeat, I'm in trouble to make an anaylisis, because the match was very boring and both teams were inconclusive. They took the ball at midfield, ran, and missed the last shot.

The goal-action started with Mix, that with a good kick passed the ball to Bille, that cross (finally a good cross) inside the area; Riku didn't take the ball and Soderlund scored, with a powerfull kick. If he scored in this way (but also: "if he scored" and stop) even in the important matches, we would be a great step forward.

Then on the developments of a free kick, there was a cross in the area, Riku, I don't know why, maybe he was afraid of the ball?, let the ball overcome him, then a mate crossed inside and Soderlund, really?, didn't take the ball (this time he was a bit difficult to score, I''ve to admit it)

After the goal we ruled the match, really, but we built actions that I already knew since the beginning that would have ended badly.

The second half started with us in attack. Jensen like such in a serpentine overcame the opponents, passed the ball to Gamboa that crossed, of course nobody took the ball in the area, Soderlund was drinking a coffee I think and hope, the ball came to the other side, another cross, needless to say Soderlund was just drinking the coffee, and the ball came again to Gamboa. Tne goalkeeper denied the joy of the goal for the Costarican player.

There was a chance to score for the opponents. The ball in the area, Svensonn let the opponent to take the ball, (perhaps he had forgotten how to protect the ball), but fortunatly the ball didn't come in. 

Then we scored the second goal on a penalty, generously granted by the referee, that Bille couldn't failed. So, indeed, he scored.

But we couldn't end the match without concede a goal. Hansen took care about it. The N. 7 kicked, and Lund allowed the ball to come in.

A useless match, it was "important" 'cause we saw changes in the squad. Dorsin played as a central defender. Perry is satisfied with his performance. He said that Dorsin seemed he was always been a central defender.

Svensonn played as a fullback, in place of Dorsin. It's very hard to say if he played good or not. He did his job.

I'm a bit disappointed with Riku, because I saw he's very fast, but today he demonstrated that he's a bit selfish and he's not very able to finalize the action.

About Soderlund he say this season will be a good season for him, instead of the last one. If he still continues to play in this way, I'm very doubtfull about it. He's happy because he really scored finally this year (at La Manga he scored with a penaly), and it was a good goal, but he had to take more ball into the area. We paid him a lot, we claim great performances every time.

Daniel Berntsen, according to me, did a good match, as far as I could see. 

Rosenborg - Costuleni 3-0. Copa del Sol is over

Yes, we were already out of the tournment before this match, but we played very well indeed. I could see how the team has really enjoyed it. The line-up was the usual 4-3-3, with the three forward that were Mikkelsen, Riku and Soderlund, like the first match against Astra. 
We had several opportunities throughout the course of the match. Such occasions we have had playing a very fast game ( a kind of game that has become the prerogative of Rosenborg) , in an offensive way and running a lot on the wings, but in the meantime we did not neglected the defensive phase. The Costuleni had only one opportunity to score with a header from a corner kick , but the defense has been able to clean up. Rosenborg on the other hand had two great occasions with Soderlund , the better of the first half according to me , which attempted to score with a header in the middle of the penalty area , and later took the bar with a powerful shot . In the second half there was no match : Rosenborg covered well all over the field , with numerous entries inside the area of the midfielder and building a good game, based (after Bille entered) on a filtering passes. The Danish has been able to juggle the ball in midfield , playing behind the wings forward , Sørloth and Riski.
Mr. Hansen has therefore changed, in the course of the match, the line-up , playing with a 4-3-1-2 , which allowed the construction of all three goals . Since Bille came in the Rosenborg has shown more dangerous.

The first goal was scored by Strandberg. There was a corner kick, Strandberg headed the ball and scored the 1-0. Since then only the Rosenborg seemed to play the match. 
The second goal was scored by Bille: Helland took the ball in the area, then passed the ball behind to Bille that shoted a powerful kick and the keeper couldn't do anything to save the ball. 
The action that led to the third goal was started (just for a change) by Bille, who fed the ball to Helland, that made a lob and scored easily.

We made three goal in almost ten minutes, then the match went over: the Costuleni didn't anything to score and Rosenborg controlled the game. 

We went out of the tournment because Astra won against AIK (we would come out of the tournament because we had also lost the head to head against the Astra), but we had played a good match, we won easily, I've to admit, and I liked the way the players played. I'm a bit doubtful about the red card to Strandberg, I didn't understand very well why the referee did it. 

I know that this matches (pre-season friendly matches) are not very important (they aren't important at all) but indeed (like all the other friendly matches all over the world, of course) they're very important to understand what kind of line-up is better to win the matches of our league, or to win in Europe, in order to go in Europa League. I think that the newcome Riski will be very usefull. I'm very doubtful (and I was already the last season) about Soderlund as first string, but Mr Hansen played in this few friendly with him as regular. I'm very happy that Chibuike didn't leave us in this transfer market, because he's very important as playmaker, but also as halfback. With a 4-3-1-2 we are more dangerous on the wings, thanks to players that run a lot, and are able to overcome the opponents easily (like Helland) and with this line-up we're very dangerous also with Bille that is more free to create the actions and make opportunities to score. Chibuike is able to run, create opportunities and intercept balls. The only great problem that I saw also the last season, is that we get tired in the last league matches. This year, then, there is also the World Cup, which will see us without key players such as Mix and Gamboa. We must be careful not to waste our energies at once, in the first few games (this is a task that must be able to do the technical staff),  and it is essential to buy some important reserves in the summer market. Lastly, I think this should be the line-up:






                                            Orlund

Gamboa                 Strandberg         Reginiussen              Dorsin
                            (Moe)                                                (Skjelvik)  

         
     Chibuike                             Mix                                 Svensonn
                                                                                   (Strandberg)                                   

                                             Bille
Helland                                                                   Riski                         
(Soderlund)                                                             (Mikkelsen)

Primi passi sul mercato

La stagione si è appena conclusa, ma il Rosenborg ha subito mosso i primi passi nel calciomercato, affinché il 2014 sia un'ottima annata calcistica. Quest'anno le due medaglie d'argento (secondo posto nella Tippeligaen e secondo posto nella Coppa di Norvegia) non sono piaciuti a nessuno, e lo scopo del club di Trondheim è quello di costruire una buona squadra per poter arrivare nel migliore dei modi possibili a giocarsi l'entrata nella fase finale dell'Europa League. Anzitutto c'è da chiarire l'interesse dello Stromsgodset nei confronti di Daniel Berntsen, il ventenne centrocampista del Rosenborg (nato e cresciuto nel Bodo/Glimt) che non è stato molto utilizzato durante questa stagione e ha detto che vorrebbe avere più spazio nel 2014. Bernsten dice di aver dimostrato quello che vale, e pensa di essersi conquistato un posto in squadra. Vedremo come finirà la vicenda.
Sempre riguardo il mercato in uscita il Rosenborg ha salutato Jon Hoiland, dopo tre anni e ventinove presenze di permanenza a Trondheim.
Il prossimo potrebbe essere Nicki Bille Nielsen. A dire la verità ci sono molti dubbi su Alexander Soderlund: la mezza stagione giocata a Trondheim è stata parecchio deludente, e si vocifera una sua partenza. Il giocatore era stato comprato per sopperire ad una mancanza in attacco, ma a quanto si è visto è stato un po' inutile il suo ingaggio. Nonostante ciò probabilmente verrà confermato, al contrario di quanto potrebbe accadere per il danese ex Reggina. Nielsen smentisce, dicendo che è contento di stare al Rosenborg, gli piace l'ambiente e la squadra, ma forse complice anche il suo carattere non proprio da "bravo ragazzo" (e vi rimando a questo articolo, per chi se lo fosse già dimenticato Nielsen arrestato: ma oggi sarà in campo ), potrebbe essere ceduto. Certo, l'attacco perderebbe la sua pedina principale, il trascinatore della squadra, e se dovesse andare via lui, probabilmente si dovrebbe fare un colpo di mercato quantomeno alla sua altezza. Il club di Trondheim pare preferisca comprare una vera ala per l'attacco, utilizzato Soderlund centrale e sacrificando quindi Nielsen.

Il Rosenborg a meno uno dalla vetta - Commento a freddo

Il Rosenborg vince contro il Viking e va a meno uno dalla vetta della classifica. Infatti lo Stromgodset è stato fermato fuori casa dal Tromso sullo 0-0. La partita contro il Viking non è stata delle peggiori, e tutto sommata è stata dominata. All'ottavo minuto Soderlund segna a porta vuota, su una grande azione di Mikkelsen, che si allarga, superando la difesa avversaria, e mette la palla al centro. Il secondo gol arriva su contropiede e lo segna Mikkelsen, che ha disputato una grande partita. Il gol del 1-2 è dell'ex Trond Olsen. Una partita non molto divertente, in cui non ci sono state moltissime occasioni, e soprattutto c'è da dire che i giocatori del RBK hanno giocato con un occhio puntato alla partita di Tromso, e hanno per lo più controllato il risultato. Negli ultimi minuti hanno rischiato un po', soprattutto dopo il gol di Olsen, ma durante il resto della partita non c'è stata quasi storia. E' sempre però evidente un calo fisico e mentale nei giocatori del RBK, attorno alla metà del secondo tempo. Un calo mentale è anche plausibile a questo punto della stagione in una partita che si sta conducendo senza particolari difficoltà, basta che al primo segnale di pericolo si vada ai ripari, e bene o male il RBK ha gestito gli ultimi minuti, concedendo il meno possibile. Comportamento che non era stato adottato contro l'Haugesund ed in altre partite di quest'anno, in cui la squadra di Trondheim ha regalato punti alle inseguitrici , e al Godset soprattutto, fino a farsi superare in classifica. Gli avversari prossimi dello Stromsgodset sono quelli dell'Haugesund, che oggi hanno vinto contro l'Odd ipotecando il terzo posto. Sarà una partita sulla carta molto facile per il Godset, che, in casa, troverà davanti a sé avversari che non hanno niente più da chiedere al campionato. Il Rosenborg dovrà invece giocare contro il Lillestrom fuori casa, un'altra squadra che, ormai salva, non ha più niente da chiedere. L'esito del campionato si deciderà prevalentemente al Marienlyst Stadion, lo stadio dello Stromsgodset. Purtroppo bisognerà confidare molto nella partita di Drammen. Il Rosenborg però, c'è quasi da gridare, se l'è andata a cercare questa situazione, quando avrebbe potuto gestire meglio un campionato che aveva quasi preso la strada per Trondheim.