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VALLE (VG) (Vålerenga – Brann 5–1) It only took eight minutes and 45 seconds to score a hat-trick on his debut. Without the crown crisis, Vålerenga coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo believes that Vidar Örn Kjartansson (30) would have ended up in Swedish football.
The VIF boss admits it to VG after the 5-1 show against Brann, where the Icelander minced Brann’s defense from minute 14 to 23 with three first-touch finishes:
A true hat trick, done with the right, the head and the right again, meant 2-1, 3-1 and 4-1 for Vålerenga.
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– Corona is very sad. But to be honest: if it hadn’t been for the crown, we would have had trouble getting it. It was the big Swedish clubs that were interested. They bleed because it is not the audience in the stands. We don’t bleed the same way. Made it more possible. It would have been more difficult for us if those clubs had people in the stands, because they generate income in a completely different way, says Dag-Eilev Fagermo.
Go back five years in time to find the last time one of his teams played as well as Brann in the first round.
– It must have been Dortmund. The first 20 minutes when we lead 3-0, Fagermo smiles when asked if this is the last time one of his teams played and is aiming for the 2015 Europa League.
It happened with Vålerenga investor Tor Olav Trøim smiling in the stands, where he sat at a correct infection-proof distance from Martin Andresen. The current Vålerenga board member with a strong past at both clubs saw the Oslo side finally score more than two goals in the same match for the first time in 2020.
Especially thanks to the re-entry of Vidar Örn Kjartansson in a blue suit. The opportunity to get the spectacular transition started when agent Olafur Gardarsson called and informed the Oslo club that he could be picked up for free from Turkey this summer.
– When the sum of the owner, sports equipment, address and player coincide so much, it is easier to get it, describes Fagermo.
– What role did Trøim play in the transition?
– He’s the owner of the club. I don’t know if I should say much more than that. He is very positive about making it happen. Vålerenga is privileged to have an owner who loves Vålerenga so much that he is so interested. He is also very up to date, says the Vålerenga coach.
After the royal triplet, the Icelander was able to cheer. All three times he finished on the first touch, he had two with the right hand and one with the head, and also retaliated against his new playmate Osame Sahraoui when he was also the penultimate player for Vålerenga at Sahraoui’s 5-1 scoreline.
– We already demonstrated today that we have a good collaboration, says Sahraoui to VG.
– His control of the ball is on another level. I saw its potential. She told me to go to the room and she would find me. And it did, Kjartansson says.
Kåre Ingebrigtsen was very disappointed after Brann’s cruel first half.
– It’s quite simple: we don’t defend ourselves. We are not close. It was a terrible thing, Brann’s coach says.
– Brutal. I said before the game that I should try to keep him out of 16 meters, because you see what happens when he comes in, said Brann Vegard Forren’s stopper during the break on Kjartansson.
It also became “the famous last word” for him at Intility. A dizzy and cuddly Forren never came out onto the field after the break, and was replaced by left-back Ruben Kristiansen in injury time.
It basically sums up Kåre Ingebrigtsen’s fire in this match. Brann’s new coach had built a team and a squad:
It had Kristoffer Barmen in an unknown presenter role and next to the replacement; Mikal Berg Kvinge, 17 years from the start, four outfielders on the bench and three of the five experienced reserves of the Eliteserien.
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On the Dag-Eilev Fagermo bench there were players with 220 more games, on the field it seemed that there were at least 2,000 that separated the two students: after only four minutes, the two new signings Henrik Bjørdal and Kjartansson had already had their last attempts and VIF had played three corners.
Exactly in the third came the goal from up front: Aron Dønnum turned into Henrik Bjørdal’s hairs, and Sunnmøringen beat Brann’s goalkeeper Markus Olsen Pettersen at an own goal and 1-0.
Brann received the equalizer shortly after, when the pair of plugs Jonatan Tollås Nation and Ivan Näsberg jumped too low and too high respectively, the ball bounced through Näsberg’s body and fell to Petter Strand, who struck the tie.
But it will hardly be of academic interest. The rest of the round was on Vålerenga, Vidar Örn Kjartansson and Osame Sahraoui.
– I think it’s great that we can combine from the first match program, says Aron Dønnum to VG.
Add Henrik Bjørdal to the mix, because Vålerenga’s less profiled signing this summer looked like he had been sitting in shackles and watching all the football clips available on the internet in recent weeks. Bjørdal evaporated from the joy of playing and the winnings, he was everywhere, always playable, active in front of the opponent’s goal and constantly racing both ways.
– It can probably be called a dream debut, Bjørdal tells Eurosport.
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