– Delicious with peace on Saturday night – VG

– He was a little dead then. We wanted revenge for that. We did a lot of good and we were better at small things compared to the match last time. But Sparta was fine. It could have gone both ways, says Martin Røymark with a view to 2-5 for Frisk on Thursday and three points against Sparta.

– It was chaos towards the end. With a minute to go, it was nice to calm down a bit Saturday night, he adds considering his 4-2 “point.”

Sparta rightly believed that they deserved to win the first game of the season against Vålerenga a month ago. However, coach Sjur Robert Nilsen’s young team lost 2-3 at the Sparta Amphitheater after official shooting statistics showed 44-19 in favor of the home team.

– Down there it was Søberg (goalkeeper Steffen) who won for us. It was a robbery, admits Martin Røymark.

This time, Esparta could have decided in their favor in the second period of the Nuevo Jordal Amphitheater in front of zero spectators. Especially when Vålerenga’s Andreas Stene suffered two ejections in a row, the second 80 seconds after he finished serving the first, and Sparta had to play five against three outfielders because Daniel Sørvik was sent off almost simultaneously.

Vålerenga got rid of fear and avoided another setback thanks to goalkeeper Steffen Søberg (27). Before the last regular term, the position was still 1-1.

– It’s like Shampo (the legend of Vålerenga, Espen Knutsen) has said in all the years. A good goalkeeper is allowed, says Martin Røymark laconically.

The third period began to cheer Vålerenga. Sparta defender Emil Lilleberg threw Magnus Brekke Henriksen a bit awkwardly behind the visitors’ goal. The hosts’ overtime post game, on the other hand, was not very optimistic, until a few minutes later it actually showed up.

Former national team defender Daniel Sørvik watched from fellow defensive zone Tommi Taimi (30) almost on the opposite end of the ice. Sørvik threw the puck at the newly acquired Finn from Vålerenga, who on the edge of offside elegantly muffled it with his sword on the stick and a second later put him 2-1 behind Sparta goalkeeper Jens Lillegrend.

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Tommi Taimi’s first goal in his second game as a Vålerenga player, a couple of weeks after, according to Google’s calculations, he drove 17 hours by car from his hometown of Pori in western Finland to Oslo, to escape the quarantine of the crown after your arrival.

– We had more energy in the team. We played more physically, everyone worked harder. But it is very strange to play without an audience. You don’t get anything for free and you have to create a lot of energy yourself, says Martin Røymark regarding the “transformation” of the previous party and the consequences of the restrictions of the Oslo crown.

Taimi, with more than 60 appearances for the Russia-based KHL and a long career in Finnish top league Liiga, didn’t get a chance to party for long. 40 seconds later, Christoffer Karlsen tied in extra time four to three, with a strong direct shot.

Then Karlsen fell victim to the same thing as Taimi. Little time of joy. Karlsen had to watch Vålerenga’s 18-year-old Calle Spaberg Olsen score 3-2 from the penalty area, following goals from Vålerenga captain Tobias Lindström and Tommi Taimi, his third in that category.

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Sparta replaced goalkeeper Lillegrend with an outside player to strengthen the possibility of a further draw, but of course with a higher risk of conceding another goal. The last one took 45 seconds. Vålerenga’s best goal scorer Sondre Olden, who returned after having overcome the previous match due to contract formalities, could have made it 4-2, but played the puck to Martin Røymark in a slightly better position to score.

– It was something old. He certainly could have shot himself, says Martin Røymark of his third goal after 11 league games.