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DRAMMEN (VG) (Strømsgodset – Vålerenga 0-2) The end of autumn has been unexciting for Vålerenga in recent seasons. After Sunday’s victory in Drammen, nerves are in high positive tension for the capital’s flagship football fans.
– This was important considering the situation in which we find ourselves. We now make up the points we lost in Kristiansund (1-1 at home) with an away win, Vålerenga coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo tells VG after the match.
With the victories of Molde and Rosenborg, Eurosport expert Joachim Jonsson characterized this match as Vålerenga had to win have hope in the race for the medals.
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Behind magnificent Bodø / Glimt Is this the current status in the Elite Series: 2) Cast 46, 3) Rosenborg 45, 4) Vålerenga 42.
The teams are also fighting for the possibility of European Cup matches, and it is an unusual diet for the club from the capital, which has a 7.5 average table position since 2009. “Finally”, Vålerenga fans can enjoy an end of fall with something to play with.
– The work ethic, and the good level we have, beyond the rubble in the passing game, has become so solid now that it becomes a point, continues Fagermo.
If Odd wins his hanging match against Viking, they get the same score as VIF.
Since NM was canceled in 2020, the fourth best team in the Eliteserien will play the European Cup next year. VIF hasn’t been there since 2011.
Travel-loving VIF supporters are probably more eagerly awaiting a pandemic vaccine if they wanted to qualify for games internationally in the 2021 season.
– Does Vålerenga smell like floodlights and Europe now?
– Yes, but there is a lot of time left and those around us get points, points out the head of VIF.
IT GOES? Right-back Christian Borchgrevink watches the shot that overtook Viljar Myhra and gave Vålerenga 2-0 and three points in the pot off Strømsgodset on Sunday. Photo: BJØRN S. DELEBEKK
Structured
The strong release of the wind on the Marienlyst mat was the most exciting at the opening of the match. Although the weather remained sour, the delicacy gradually came to the game.
Henrik Bjørdal made it 1-0 for Vålerenga when he marveled at the back post behind a post from Vidar Örn Kjartansson, which Herolind Shala was unable to control, luckily for VIF. Bjørdal was confident when the opportunity arose and the midfielder who arrived from Belgium’s Zulte Waregem in September continues to play very well for the capital club.
– Prospero, says Bjørdal even after the game. He adds that Sunnmøringen has “thus understood” that the people of Oslo are hungry for something to play for in the autumn and says the team will do everything possible to make the European Cup matches reach the fans.
Vålerenga then fell further behind, and Strømgodset struggled to regain rhythm and intensity on the ball against a structured VIF team. From the counter attack, the latter team’s wing Aron Dønnum created a great opportunity, but Viljar Myhra made a great save.
Moses Mawa, however, was able to equalize before the rest. He squeezed with his left leg, but the ball went over both goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson and the goal.
JOY: Henrik Bjørdal scored 1-0 for Vålerenga His third goal of the season. Photo: Bjørn Steinar Delebekk
The farm in trouble
Strømsgodset did his best to start the fight after the break. With intense pressure, they occasionally created problems for Vålerenga, but the Oslo team managed to keep Drammen’s team away from the biggest opportunities.
Instead, counter-attack Vålerenga and Christian Borchgrevink who had joined from their place on the right-back made it 2-0 and punctured the game in the 76th minute.
Godset’s final sprint was stopped once by Kristoffer Klaesson and by the net wall when Ingimundarson was close to reduction.
Drammen’s team is struggling a lot in the lower half. They have only one win in three and a half months and are about to take root in an intense battle against relegation once again.
– We have enough opportunities to score. That’s the efficiency that matters, coach Henrik Pedersen tells VG.
– How sure are you that you will get enough points not to bite your nails at the end of the season?
– I am confident, but I have great respect for the situation, continues the Dane.
P.S! Next weekend, the “neighbor” Mjøndalen awaits a major derby in the background battle.
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