Ingebrigtsen’s catastrophic start continues: – Danger of descent

Mjøndalen-Brann 2-0

At Consto Arena, Brann suffered another searing defeat against Mjøndalen.

Martin Rønning Ovenstad provided a dreamy start for the brown dresses after twelve minutes. Shortly before the break, Isaac Twum doubled the lead, a goal that should have been canceled for offside beforehand.

– I hope it teaches them to score goals.

Brann never managed to defend himself in the fight.

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– If we continue like this and don’t score goals, we go down. With the points we have now, it is not enough, Kåre Ingebrigtsen tells TV 2.

– But I don’t think we have the focus there, more or less. We focus on improving performance. I have to do something about it, continue.

– What do you think of the start you had in Brann?

– In terms of points, it has been shocking. Has it. I think it has been way below average and we really have to step up. Both coaches and players. This is why we should not be familiar with Brann, replies the man from Trøndelag.

You will soon have a new addition to your coaching staff. On Friday, BA announced that Eirik Horneland will be featured as Ingebrigtsen’s assistant on Sunday. Brann has called a press conference.

– What will it be like to get Horneland if he shows up tomorrow?

– I hope I teach them, whoever enters, to score goals. Then it will be great, Ingebrigtsen answers with a twinkle in his eye.

Katastrofestart

The loss means that Kåre Ingebrigtsen’s sorry start continues. The 2-1 victory over Molde, two days after being hired, followed him from the stands.

Then there have been five losses, two draws and only one victory. The series of games without a triple has been expanded to six.

– It’s a disastrous start for Kåre. Although it has its challenges with this number of players, this is well below what one should expect, says TV 2 soccer expert Jesper Mathisen.

– Brann’s ambition when they brought in Kåre was for this team to go up and fight for medals for years to come. But at the moment, they are infinitely far from the best teams in Norway, he continues.

Kristoffer Barmen urges the people of Bergen to roll up their sleeves.

– With the period in which we are now, it is a bit symptomatic that we come here and lose. This is not how it should be. Now we have to screw and fine tune, says Brann’s player.

– Is there a danger of descent?

– I don’t think we should go down.

In the battle for relegation

In any case, the specter of descent has really begun to creep into Brann. They are now five points ahead of Start in the standings. If the Southerners beat Strømsgodset in Drammen, the distance will be two points.

– I think Brann takes enough points to keep the place by a fair margin, but now the relegation danger is there. Tomorrow night they may be within two points of qualifying, and then the nerves will reach Bergen, says Mathisen.

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– Teams like Mjøndalen and Start have known that this was a difficult season and that they had to fight to stay, but that is not the case at Brann. No one in that locker room has been groomed for the focus in 2020 to be keeping their spot, but that’s actually the focus for the rest of the season, Mathisen says.

– Mjøndalen clearly wants more in tonight’s match, and what Brann offers is simply a light soup. Zero structure in the offensive game, and defensively they look very messy, Mathisen believes.

Mjøndalen is praised

Mjøndalen, on the other hand, took three very important points. Vegard Hansen’s men impressed the soccer expert from TV 2.

– They look much better now after a couple of smart signings. This victory was extremely important for Christian Gauseth and company, because if they had lost, the gap to qualifying could have been very large in the next 24 hours, says Mathisen.

– The start will come out in a tough away game against Strømsgodset tomorrow, and if Start doesn’t win it, it will be completely even between those teams, and Mjøndalen and Start will meet in Mjøndalen later this fall, recalls the former Start player.

After the game, it’s a buttery Vegard Hansen who meets the press. It has been 45 years since Brann last won at Mjøndalen, something Hansen believes affected the opponent.

– He has become a ghost to Brann. It is grown before each game and they do not find it easier. It intensifies a bit. When there is such a clear trend for so many years, it does something to our heads and at least to Brann’s heads. We won, as we usually do against Brann, says the Mjøndalen coach with a smile on TV 2.

There are nine games left in the Elite Series for Mjøndalen and Brann.

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