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VALLE (VG) (Vålerenga – Start 4-0) Vålerenga clinched its first league medal in ten years and at the same time sent to the start from the country’s top division for the 10th time.
– Now he’s calm in the locker room. We show very little and what we show is bad. I wish I had a good answer as to why it is going the way it is, but we are not ourselves and we are completely run over, says Martin Ramsland to VG, who still says they are on “a positive track” lately.
A year and 12 days after they celebrated a miraculous rise in the standings against Lillestrøm, signed by Ramsland, it was also this time with a season in the Elite Series for Start after a non-dramatic football match. Vålerenga came to third place in Dag-Eilev Fagermo’s debut season as coach.
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– I didn’t think I would win a medal the first year. When I arrived I noticed that we were very hungry for the things I presented, and that is why we have succeeded. We have done it, quickly, and that gets us where we are. This medal is a seven-mile step, Fagermo tells VG, but promises more: “I did not come here to win bronze.”
At the opposite end of the table is Start. As usual. Since 2016, they’ve had a rise between league levels one and two every year, but TV 2 pundit and former starting player Jesper Mathisen (33) doesn’t see a new upturn in 2021, at least as he reads the condition on Sparebanken Sør. Sand right now.
– The descent is catastrophic. Now the commitment and “standing” for Start in Sørlandet is very poor. Now there are many that need to be replaced. What has become of the leaders in the club is shameful for us “Starters”, Mathisen tells VG.
At this time, Start coach Joey Hardarson will enter next year “on layoff.” The Icelander only has a year left, but if Start will break with Hardarsson, or if it extends, as a sign that it will re-occupy the club, it is by far the most urgent choice of path for the specialist in relegation in Norwegian football, according to Mathisen.
Start holds the all-time relegation record since the first division merged in 1963. Sørlendingene has dropped seven times in the 2000s alone and ten times since 1963. HamKam and Sogndal are close behind, both with eight descents.
He believes that both the organization itself and the economy should have a higher priority.
– Whether it is Pep Guardiola, Joey or Tom Nordlie who coaches the team is the least important in the coming months. But who runs the club, where is the CEO, where is the strong leader of the board, where is “Mr. Start “? I don’t see anyone. This is a club in disintegration, says the son of the greatest Start legend of all, Svein Mathisen.
The late “Matta” is the club’s greatest player of all time and was sporting director in the years the club came close to league gold 15 years ago. But just then, like Intility on Tuesday night: they lost to Vålerenga.
– We performed very badly when it mattered most. What we showed today was not worthy of an elite league player. It was embarrassing, Ramsland told Fædrelandsvennen.
Unlike the thriller that took place in 2005, it was made into a slower feature film. This year’s Vålerenga attraction Osame Sahraoui (19) was quick to start the dribbling series, and before the fourth was passed, the 19-year-old had been behind two goals from Vålerenga.
BEND NECK Kristoffer Tønnesen during the Start series finale against Vålerenga at Intility on Tuesday night. Photo: Terje Pedersen
First, he dribbled Eirik Wichne twice in the same attack and hit Vidar Örn Kjartansson, who made it 1-0. Then Sahraoui tipped the ball past the same Wichne player as for this match became known as Sarpsborg ready from next season, and his farewell performance with sørlandsklubben was not one of the best: Rundlurt 0-1, last on the ball at 0-2.
Sahraoui was wonderfully screwed 3-0 after half an hour.
– We just have to bet higher now that we have made it this first season, says the young man to VG.
In the second half, Vålerenga was able to play with marzipan in his pocket and mulled wine in hand, but they remained the team that created the most chances.
Just before the end of the blow, Odin replaces Thiago Holm in the fourth. It came on a Jonas Deumeland comeback after a genius from Henrik Bjørdal.
At the same time, Mjøndalen beat Aalesund 3-0 and did his part to ensure that Start was now relegated. Nedre Eiker’s brown jerseys face Sogndal in qualifying to retain their spot in the Elite Series.
P.S.! He started ten relegation seasons since 1963: 1969, 1987, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2016, 2018 and 2020.
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