– Every man must take the blame – VG

At a club with top scorer traditions through Daniel Nannskog and Franck Boli, 2020 is a year to forget for Stabæk’s attackers. Erik Botheim still has zero goals, Darren Maatsen has one, Kosuke Kinoshita has two goals (in 20 games), while Malmö’s mercenary Antonsson scored the first after the transfer this summer when he drew 1-1 against Vålerenga on Wednesday for the night.

Maatsen should have also scored in a game where Stabæk was the best overall, but the explanation for why the Bears have scored the fewest of the teams that are 10th or higher in the Eliteserien is possibly in the fact that six of the seven scoring opportunities against Vålerenga were burned.

– we have not been the. So I am quite happy with 35 points. We have not scored goals and then it is difficult to win football matches. But I try to look at the game in total a little bit, and I try to look a little bit so that we have chances, says coach Jan Jönsson to VG.

– Do you think the club was good enough to prioritize forwards before the season?

– There were some coincidences that made us not quite right, responds the Swede, who guaranteed many goals in his previous stage as Stabæk manager.

Against Vålerenga, Antonsson missed two before scoring, while Oliver Edvardsen, Sturla Ottesen, Maatsen and substitute Kornelius Normann Hansen shot over, out or were rejected by Vålerenga goalkeeper Kristoffer Klaesson.

– The first half of the season we didn’t have enough chances. Now the performance has improved. We must be more careful. Today we have great and small opportunities. So far it is positive that this is what we are struggling with; at least we have opportunities. Everyone must take the blame for not scoring. It shouldn’t be on the tips or the edges, says Stabæk center ball Emil Bohinen, the best in the field against Vålerenga, the last winner of the match against Mjøndalen.

For Vålerenga and coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo, it was 1-1 for the third game in a row:

– Good first round, messy second round. One point is correct. This is the strongest of the last three points we have obtained, Fagermo believes on the agreements against Aalesund, Sarpsborg and Stabæk.

The coach had made some changes, some by force, some by choice, but the backup solution paid off. Johan Lædre Bjørdal, in VIF action for the first time since August, lifted the ball in the direction of Stabæk’s 16 meters.

In the aerial duel that followed, inside runner-up Matthías Vilhjalmsson made Nicolas Pignatell the junior who is actually the 18-year-old, and Vidar Örn Kjartansson took over the compatriot’s rear.

The Icelander scored 1-0 on a half volley over Marcus Sandberg and scored his eighth league goal in 11 games following this summer’s transfer.

– In fact, we have trained it, and then we took it in the players meeting today. Funny, says Fagermo about the attack play and which was Kjartansson’s first after four league games without a goal. In fact, his longest goalless time in both periods for Vålerenga.

Kjartansson could already score after three minutes, but then the former Vålerenga goalkeeper, sold by Ronny Deila, was quickly knocked down and saved. Regardless: he scored in one of his two, Stabæk needed a lot of ball, a lot of time and a lot of scoring opportunities to give Klaesson his.

Mid-game winner Marcus Antonsson certainly believes that his perfect shot, after the beautiful preparation of dribble king Oliver Edvardsen, sends him into something of a flow zone now and out of season.

– I think so. I have had many opportunities and I have done many things well. But goals are important for him to continue, says the Malmö forward with a one-year contract with the Swedish league champions.

Goal: more than 40 points

Emil Bohinen reports that the team has set a new goal: to exceed 40 points from last year. It requires at least two wins in the last three games.

– I think we can look a little up in the table as is the performance now. I think we deserve to win, and I think Fagermo was very happy with one point, says Bohinen.

– I’m never happy with a point. If we look behind the results, there is no doubt that some mold is floating. We’ve been a bit unlucky too, so I think it goes up, says Vålerenga stopper Ivan Näsberg.

It was the only reason Marcus Antonsson didn’t score before half-time: Sammy Skytte tipped the ball over Vålerenga’s defense, Antonsson parried Vålerenga’s best defender for the shot, but Näsberg got up from dizziness and blocked the shot with a foot parade in the style of a handball parade.

Now Rosenborg is next for Vålerenga, possibly a pure “bronze finish” in this year’s version of the Elite Series.

– Maybe it is. It’s fun to play games like that. And even more fun is that it is in our hands. We just have to take advantage of it, says Näsberg.

So Dag-Eilev Fagermo will likely have Jonatan Tollås Nation (saved against Stabæk) and Aron Dønnum back.

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