– We can’t go on like this … – VG

– We can’t go on like this, Hareide tells VG, after a football game in which his team didn’t create a single goal opportunity in 90 minutes. The legend of the coach does not remember what he has experienced before.

RBK had a ball in the net, which was thrown offside. Otherwise nothing.

– We are too imprecise when we approach goals, says Hareide.

Rarely has the word “labor war” been a better description of a soccer game. Two teams that focused on each other, and thus ended 0-0. It was the fifth draw between the teams in the last eight attempts since 2017.

– An adult soccer match, two strong teams, two teams that held each other back, is the description of the match by Kristiansund coach Christian Michelsen. He is proud to run a KBK that is extremely difficult to beat.

Hareide: – If RBK does not win the gold, I have failed

– And we will continue to be, I promise you, smiles Michelsen.

It is rare that so few opportunities are created in a football game. It was 64 minutes before the first arrived, in Liridon Kalludra’s Kristiansund. When 80 minutes had passed, Rosenborg still hadn’t created a single hazard ahead of Sean McDermott in KBK’s goal.

– We tried, we changed our edges, we tried to win the game. But we didn’t succeed, says Åge Hareide.

Instead, it was the home team that had the most pressure, if we can speak of something like that in a close and close match, where the coaches / leaders of both teams had done the work beforehand.

– We could have won quickly. And maybe we should have punished towards the end as well. This was a match in which one of the teams chased an opportunity but did not come, says Christian Michelsen, who had to see top scorer Amahl Pellegrino effectively being stopped by RBK blocks Tore Reginiussen and Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson.

– Play against two blocks of the national team, says Christian Michelsen.

– KBK works hard. And they like that there will be some chaos battles, it suits them, Åge Hareide thinks.

Very little happened on both 16 meters. Two teams that worked hard, that were well organized and that led were … that was the recipe. Here it had to be a set piece, or a coincidence if one of the teams was going to score.

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There were many corners: 13 in the battle. They didn’t lead to anything either. At first there was almost nothing to note, there was a bit more after the break. The last 10 minutes, the match was opened a LITTLE, but still both teams were in good balance and let little go.

In crucial situations, everything became too imprecise, no one dared either. Substitute Pål André Helland shot up just before the end. The half chance of a team, the closest Rosenborg was.

Åge Hareide has worked hard and spent time organizing Rosenborg in the seven weeks he has led the team. Now is the time to work on the offensive line.

– We have to, if we want to improve, admits the Rosenborg boss.

RBK is therefore number three in the table, one point behind Molde. Kristiansund is number four.

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