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CONSIDERED: Kåre Ingebrigtsen sat thoughtfully on Brann’s bench after the loss to Haugesund. Photo: Marit Hommedal
BERGEN (VG) (Brann – Haugesund 1–2) Brann cannot win football matches. 116 days have passed since the last home win. And coach Kåre Ingebrigtsen (54) emphasizes that now it is about saving a place in the Elite Series.
– Now we will save space, then it will be reinforced, with physical training and interaction for a strong 2021, says Kåre Ingebrigtsen.
Obviously, he does not like the situation he finds himself in with the press after the loss to Haugesund on Saturday night. It has been almost three months since he last led the team to a league win (2-0 away to Stabæk).
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We are talking about August 24. A very long time ago. With Ingebrigtsen (he arrived in August for Lars Arne Nilsen) there has only been one win, four draws and six losses. Statistics bother you. It has a clear expression of that.
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But the worst part is that Brann hasn’t won at home at the Stadium since July 12 (3-1 over Sandefjord. Then it was summer. Now Advent is coming. And it seems that Brann thinks that Santa will come with a new contract from the elite series as a Christmas present.
When VG asks what Ingebrigtsen thought when goalkeeper Ali Ahamada scored this year’s own goal, and Haugesund took the lead, he shakes his head in despair and says:
– I thought I would never end up with margins in our favor. But we can’t blame anyone other than ourselves when we rotate victory that way.
He points out, quite rightly, that Brann was totally dominant until Ahamada made a mistake.
– We are a strange soccer team, and we have to toughen up. We must stop those setbacks. We did the same at Sandefjord in the previous league match, says Kåre Ingebrigtsen.
Håkon Opdal, who has been in the past, sank in favor of Ahamada. The change of goalkeeper regrets Ingebrigtsen, he admits.
– When does one how that wrong, then it’s clear you think that way. But in training, Ali has been good. We have two regular goalkeepers. We don’t have one that is clearly better than the other, says Ingebrigtsen.
When VG has “four months without winning at home” on the pitch, and asks if “there is something I can live with”, Ingebrigtsen responds: – We cannot live with that as a club that we do not win football matches, and we must win parties this fall. So this is difficult for all of us. The situation is that we have to work to get out of it.
After Ingebrigtsen was fired in Rosenborg, he lost his job in both Belgium (Ostend) and Cyprus (APOEL). He is not afraid that the same thing will happen now in Bergen.
– I don’t think I’ll get fired at Brann. What I’m thinking is that I, together with this group of players and the coaching staff, will do the job here. I don’t think there is anyone who can come to do something better, says Ingebrigtsen.
He is not a broker on social media. But he found it was time to write some thoughts on Facebook about his colleague Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s situation at Manchester United. The publication has been reproduced on VG with the permission of Ingebrigtsen.
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– I rarely write something, but I have admired Ole Gunnar for a long time, and I feel that when something is written, it is almost always negative. I think he makes a brilliant effort. And it had nothing to do with my own situation that I wrote what I wrote, says Kåre Ingebrigtsen.
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