– We are a pack of wolves – VG

– I think the recovery is strong. Unfortunately, it takes us a while to get smart and handle the pace towards Hoffenheim, but when we do, we show mental strength and we are a pack of wolves that are united, coach Erling Moe tells VG after the game.

Molde looked desperate for much of the match against great German club Hoffenheim, but when two-goal scorer Munas Dabbur seized the opportunity for his hat trick from the penalty spot after an hour, hope emerged in Molde at position 1. -3. .

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Molde goalkeeper Andreas Linde’s tiger jump from a rescue appeared to send performance-enhancing enzymes directly into the blood of Molde’s colleagues.

– We have Linde to thank. In the first instance, we can’t stop a ball or look up, we can’t get out of our own half and we can’t hit a pass or two, we have to work with that, Magnus Wolff Eikrem tells TV 2.

First, Marcus Holmgren Pedersen struck perfectly in the forehead of Eirik Ulland Andersen, who controlled the reduction.

– In 3-1 we do a super pickup. We should be proud of that, then we’ll be there from the beginning next time, Ulland Andersen tells TV 2.

Then Magnus Wolff Eikrem had bad luck, luck and incompetence when he first missed a big opportunity and then put in substitute David Fofana with a spoon strike soon after. The newly signed substitute completed the masterful collection.

Soon after, he was alone, but became too indecisive in the final moment and the opportunity was lost in the sand.

– The turning point is when we start to use the court and use the ball and make it easy. For simplicity, it flourishes. The first and most important thing is that we manage to turn it around is crucial today, reasoned Moe, who at the same time emphasizes that it will be a difficult task in the “second leg” next Thursday.

Molde won 1-3 to 3-3, Molde was out of season and Bundesliga team Hoffenheim in the middle, and the dream of the quarterfinals is alive and well. For a long time it didn’t look like that.

Nazareth’s Munas Dabbur scored two blatant first-half goals, Christoph Baumgartner was able to get into the Hoffenheim third before the break and a small wound patch was Martin Ellingsen’s precise first-half volley over the course of the game.

In the “home game”, played at Villarreal’s El Madrigal stadium when Villarreal himself played an away game against RB Salzburg and Molde did not welcome the Germans to Romsdalen, it was clear that Molde was out of season and Hoffenheim inside.

Mr. Moe’s disciples were the last in almost every match, the defense did not hold together for much of the game and offensively it was for a long time almost impossible to penetrate an injured German defense.

Molde started on his side with Bjørn Bergman Sigurdarson for the first time after returning from Lillestrøm this winter, but the Icelander was effectively isolated. Only when he was replaced in favor of Fofana did Molde wake up.

After an hour Dabbur really should have scored his third and fourth for Hoffenheim, but Andreas Linde masterfully saved the penalty and began the equally masterful comeback against the team that beat Champions League champion Bayern Munich 4-1. in September.

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