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Great opportunities, dream free kicks and penalties. It got very dramatic when Brann visited Start.
START – FIRE 1-1:
It ended in the 1-1 final between Start and Brann in the elite series deal Wednesday night.
That point means Brann is now 100 percent guaranteed a spot in the Elite Series next season.
On the other hand, Start cannot say the same, which remains in serious danger of relegation after having abused a series of great occasions against the Bergen team in Wednesday’s sale.
– I understand despair. Start did what he could. They just couldn’t score enough goals, summed up Eurosport expert Bengt Eriksen as the referee blew the match.
Brann didn’t have a good game, but Petter Strand secured the point for the Reds with a dream hit on a second-half free throw.
– It was enough, so it was delicious.
– It’s a bad match for us, but we did exactly what we needed, so today must be fine, striker Strand tells Eurosport after the match.
Ingebrigtsen relieved
Brann coach Kåre Ingebrigtsen also summed up the match in a similar way. He thinks his team was lucky to still be in the game after a violent start run in the first half hour.
– We can plan a bit more now than we’ve been doing lately. It was important for us to make that point clear. That’s why we came here, says Ingebrigtsen.
Eirik Schulze tied for Start, but there is little doubt that the Southerners had needed, and perhaps deserved, all three points.
However, they could not.
Schulze has no doubt that the team must be more efficient in front of goal.
– We have not been good enough to score goals. That’s one of the things we’re not good enough at. Fortunately, we have a battle to achieve it, Schulze tells Eurosport.
That game is away against Vålerenga.
That settlement expert, Eriksen, believes Start depends on winning to survive in the Elite Series.
Start dominated
Start really has the knife to the throat in terms of survival at the Eliteserien and it wasn’t hard to see that Sørlandet’s team had a lot to play for at Sør Arena on Wednesday night.
The home team took full control of the game from the start and pushed the Bergen team for much of the first half.
The yellow-clad team should also have taken the lead after just ten minutes when the ball ended with Eirik Schulze in front of Brann’s goal, but the starting player kicked the ball off the post.
Two minutes later, Christian Bolaños came close to scoring for Start when he headed the ball off the ground and towards the goal, but Håkon Opdal kept a good save.
The start continued to create several great chances throughout the round, but had no margins for the goal.
Thus, it was 0-0 at halftime.
Dream encounter
Brann had enough to defend in the first half, and it looked like the match would continue on the same court even after the break.
In the 60th minute, the visitors almost went up, but Petter Strand’s free kick hit the crossbar.
The fire player loaded the cannon and knocked it down at the intersection from about 20 meters.
– You cannot do better, was the verdict of Eurosport expert Bengt Eriksen.
To begin, however, was to fight back.
And it was deserved when Schulze made it 1-1 for the home team in the 69th minute. The starting player received the ball from Kevin Kabran, who struck right from the dead line. Schulze was frozen and put the ball in the goal.
Missed penalty
Start chased after the winning goal towards the end of the match, but failed to score any more goals on Wednesday night. Instead, it was Brann who came closest to escaping with all three points when the referee pointed to the penalty spot after Vegard Forren stayed inside Start’s penalty area.
Daouda Bamba had the opportunity to change things.
Thus, what turned into a dramatic showdown ended 1-1.
The start is now in qualifying spot after Strømsgodset passed them, who beat Aalesund earlier in the night.
The team faces Vålerenga in their last game of the season on December 22.
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