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YOUNGEST: Andreas Schjelderup (right) applauds with Ibrahim Sadiq after the 1-0 scoreline. Photo: Claus Bech / Ritzau Scanpix
(Nordsjælland – Sønderjyske 2-1) Andreas Schjelderup became the great hero when he scored the goals of the two local teams.
Schjelderup started the game well and let go with the ball and used a man as a rounding buoy, before putting the ball into the goal with his left in the 16th minute. 18 minutes later, he left the field calmly, before to score his second goal of the day with his right leg.
– It is an incredible feeling to have scored the two goals that helped the team to victory, and a place in the top-6 that we have fought so hard for. It’s wonderful, says Andreas Schjelderup to the Danish online newspaper Bold.
North Zealand coach Flemming Pedersen was carried away by emotion when he spoke to the Danish press after the match.
– He is a very special player. She is only 16 years old, we must remember that. Your top tier can go crazy. It will be the top in one of the five big leagues, Pedersen predicts to Bold.
The young forward was also named the best on the field in the 2-1 victory.
Schjelderup came from Bodø / Glimt last year. He was on training stays at Ajax, PSV, Liverpool, Tottenham, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Villarreal, but ultimately chose FC Nordsjælland, known for their good talent.
– They are not just two goals, they are two fantastic goals. And it’s no coincidence, says Håkon Grøttland, head of the player and coach development section at NFF to VG.
– It shows what we have known about him for a long time, and that is that he is good one against one, good for the future and he is good at everything he does.
Grøttland says he has seen Schjelderup a lot and that the young man has been to every talent show.
– We see time and again that players who are exciting by Norwegian standards are also exciting internationally. But we must not bother him too much, he must have time to develop, says Grøttland.
Schjelderup’s two goals made Danish journalists wonder if he is the youngest to score two goals in the same game in the Danish Super League.
– Has there ever been a 16-year-old who has scored two goals in a Super League match? asks Rudi Dalsgaard at Frederiksborg Amts Avis on Twitter.
– No, confirms Gisle Thorsen in Ekstra Bladet.
The Danish statistics site “Superstats” writes that only seven goals have been scored by 16-year-olds in the Super League. Schjelderup represents three of them after today’s game. Mads Beiersholm (2), Kenneth Zohore and Jeppe Kjær are responsible for the other four.
North Zealand thus qualified for the championship match after Sunday’s victory.
– The 16-year-old kicks FC Nordsjælland to the championship game on the last day of play. It just won’t be more North Zealand than that, Thorsen writes in Ekstra Bladet on Twitter.
– If only Andreas Schjelderup were Danish. Wow, wow, write in another tweet.
The Danish media are really excited about Schjelderup’s fantastic game.
“Great class from the young man, who the other day scored his first goal for FCN directly from a free kick against Lyngby,” Ekstra Bladet writes in his match case.
