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NEW LOSS: Lars Arne Nilsen has a 1-0 loss in his first two games as Aalesund coach. Photo: Svein Ove Ekornesvåg
(Aalesund – Sarpsborg 08 0–1) First, Aalesund was probably misled by a penalty kick when top scorer Hólmbert Friðjónsson was seriously injured. Then Tobias Heintz, who returned home, provided another nightmare for tango shirts.
Hólmbert Friðjónsson received an excellent pass and it was only to walk the ball into goal, but was stopped by David Mitov-Nilsson in the Sarpsborg cage.
He was also stopped by visiting captain Bjørn Inge Utvik, who in a desperate attempt to stop the end put his foot right on the ankle of the home team’s Icelandic top scorer.
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The Icelander, who has scored eleven of the 21 tango jersey goals in the Elite Series this season, screamed in pain and tried to get up, unable to do so. Eventually he had to crawl off the field.
– I hit him on the ankle, I do. I can only hope he does well, it was not on purpose, says Utvik to Eurosport, who thinks it is neither a penalty nor a red card.
After the match, referee Tommy Skjerven apologized to Sunnmørsposten and said that he should have given the home team a penalty.
– It looked like a penalty kick, AaFK coach Lars Arne Nilsen tells Eurosport about the situation, which you can see here:
It would be worse for the Sunnmørings, who before the game had eight points to start in the standings.
Tobias Heintz returned to Østfold, straight from the freezer at Turkish Kasimpasa, and went straight into Sarpsborg coach Mikael Stahre’s starting lineup.
Although he has barely played football in the last six months, there was nothing to indicate he was rusty when he coldly handled Jonathan Lindseth’s pass to goal.
– Good return! First, it is important to have three points, but I had in mind that I had to score, says Heintz.
See the objective here:
Niklas Castro, meanwhile, fired two shots into the metal on either side of the break.
– It’s heavy, of course. But that’s the way it is for us now, we don’t seem to know very well what we’re doing, Castro tells Eurosport.
Aalesund desperately tried to fight back, but Lars Arne Nilsen couldn’t help but watch his second 1-0 loss in as many games as manager. Although there was reason to fear a fracture to the superstriker’s left leg, Eurosport reports that it is likely a stretch.
– It is very difficult to say how long you will be away, from days to several weeks, says Terje Vagstad, medical officer in Aalesund, to Eurosport.
In any case, there is little doubt that injury was the last thing they needed at Color Line Stadium.
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