Vålerenga 1 (Luton Shelton) - 2 Lyn (Espen Hoff, Kim Holmen)
Editors at TV2 headquarters must be banging their heads against the wall: Yet again a rubbish Vålerenga-side deprived them of a perfectly good opportunity to use the ghostbusters-theme in a highlights-compilation.
That's right folks, the derby-ghost is alive and kicking. Vålerenga, for all their money and media-attention, have still not beaten Lyn since 1981. Granted, Lyn spent most of those years in another division, but it's a shocking statistic none the less, especially as most if not all Vålerenga fans will tell you that VIF are a much bigger club than Lyn.
The derby-ghost: Alive and kicking
It's remarkable just how well Lyn are playing, considering the team is seemingly coming apart at the seams, but again they produced a cracking performance buzzing with youthful verve and enthusiasm. With a new owner-scheme in the works and a new manager in Kent Bergersen, things may not be looking so bad for them after all. Stabæk-bound Espen Hoff summed it up perfectly:"We were quite simply better than Vålerenga".
Indeed they were, and Vålerenga really have to start asking themselves some serious questions. Having gone through a complete revamp of their backroom-staff and spent a lot of money before the season began, they are currently tenth in the table, three places below where they ended up last season. "Lyn were much better than us. We looked like we didn't quite know what to do out there," said fan-favorite Erik "Panzer" Hagen, who was substituted at half-time after Lyn's impish forwards had made him look like a creaky old man for 45 minutes.
5 opinions:
It was a year in the Adeccoliga that gave Stabæk the chance to establish the playing style which has taken them to the top of the table. The way VIF are going, it looks like they may get a similar opportunity.
Nah, Hamkam and Aalesund are far too rubbish to let anyone else in on the relagation gig.
Oh, and Panzer really looks past it, doesn't he?
He does, but in fairness to him Kim Holmen can make a lot of defenders look like old women.
I would just like to ask Martin Andresen why he started Hagen, who seems to be getting slower by the day and was on antibiotics to boot, against one of the quickest attackers in Northern Europe. I know Panzer is a cult-figure and all that, but to me this borders on plain old stupidity.
The reason is simple - Andresen hasnt got a clue!
His philosophy seems to be to spend a pile of money putting together an expensive bunch of dodgy Norwegian international players and hope that they will work it out for themselves.
But what can you expect from a guy with absolutely no trainer experience whatsoever?
It was extremely arrogant of him to think that he could compete with the likes of Jan Jönsson and Erik Hamren in his first year in the job, and it shows how incompetent and naiive the VIF leadership is to give him the job.
How much managing-experience did Henning Berg have when he took over Lyn?
I really don't think it's as simple as "Andresen is clueless", but I think there might be an argument to be made that he's trying to do too much too soon.
Is it really a good idea to introduce a whole new type of coaching-structure at a club in your first gig as a manager? A bunch of coaches deciding on stuff by way of committee, is that clever? And is the whole player/manager thing really working for him (it seems he's been underperforming in both roles this season)?
I think these are much more interesting questions..
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