Friendly matches results

30.01: Stabæk - Manchester Uniteds reserves 0-3 (Mame Biram Diouf scored two in his return to Norwegian football)

30.01: Sandefjord - Häcken 1-1
30.01: Sandnes Ulf - Viking 1-4
01.02: New York Red Bulls - Strømsgodset 2-1
02.02: Odd Grenland - Vålerenga 3-1
02.02: Tromsø - Lech Poznan 2-2 (
03.02: Molde - Sjakhtar Donetsk 0-3
03.02: Brann - Løv-Ham 5-1 (Erik Huseklepp scored a hat-trick)

04.02: Hønefoss - Sandefjord 0-0
04.02: Odense - Rosenborg 3-2
04.02: Strømsgodset - Rubin Kazan 0-4
05.02: Kalmar - Molde 6-4 (Pape Pate Diouf scored two, and has been looking good so far in the pre-season.)

05.02: Bryne - Viking 0-3 (Ingelsten scored his first goal for Viking)
06.02: Kongsvinger - IK Brage 2-2
06.02: Rosenborg - CSKA Moskva 1-4
06.02: Stabæk - Halmstad 3-2
06.02: Aalesund - Sogndal 2-1
09.02: Elfsborg - Rosenborg 1-1 (Rosenborg still haven't won one game in the preseason)

Friendly matches results

23.01: Haugesund - Sogndal 1-1
23.01: Molde - Kristiansund 6-0
23.01: Lillestrøm - Strømmen 2-0
23.01: Kongsvinger - Strømsgodset 0-2

24.01 Odd Grenland - Lech Poznan 0-0 (4-5 after penalties)

Friendly matches results

22.01: Start - Sandefjord 4-0
Bolaños scored two despite only playing 30 minutes.
Ole Martin Årst played 15 minutes in a comeback after originally retiring in October 2009.
16 year old Sondre Kristiansen played his first 11 minutes for Start.
22.01: Stabæk - Moss 5-1
22.01: Basel - Viking 4-0

Friendly matches results

18.01: Vålerenga - Skeid 1-1
19.01: Follo - Vålerenga 0-0

Vålerenga definitely needs to work on their attacks after hardly creating any chances against these two, Follo were promoted to Adeccoligaen this fall while Skeid were relegated from it.

19.01: Tromsdalen - Tromsø 2-3

Friendly match results

Kongsvinger IL - Follo: 5-0


Vidar Riseth scored one in his comeback for Kongsvinger. The sentral defender headed in a cross from Gambino. Riseth has returned to Kongsvinger as a combined head of marketing/player.

Olav Tuelo Johannesen and Kai Risholt scored two each.

(kil.no)

Friendly match results

Randaberg 2-2 Viking (Highlights)

Notodden 3-6 Strømsgodset

Lillestrøm 3-0 NIL/Trysil (Highlights)

friendly match results

Brann - Haugesund 0-2

Highlights available at tv2sporten.no.

Norway win the friendly match against Switzerland

Switzerland - Norway 0-1
Norway played great in defence, and scored on the only chance they created. Morten In the 47th minute Gamst Pedersen was fouled by Philipp Degen inside the box. John Carew scored on the following penalty.

Norway (4-5-1):
Jon Knudsen
Tom Høgli, Jon Inge Høiland, Brede Hangeland, John Arne Riise
Erik Huseklepp, Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Henning Hauger, Kristoffer Hæstad, Morten Gamst Pedersen
John Carew

Subs:
Morten Moldskred for Huseklepp, 40th
Rune Almenning Jarstein for Knudsen, 46th
Alexander Tettey for Hæstad 65th
Daniel Braaten for Cartew 78th
Jan Gunnar Solli for Hauger, 87th
Espen Ruud for Skjelbred, 90th



Coach Egil Drillo Olsen has been ill for a couple of days, but was back on the bench today, and led Norway to their sixth victory in 2009, which is a considerable improvement after the former coach not winning a single match last year.

19th round

Aalesund 1-1 Fredrikstad

26th of July: Results

Vålerenga 0-3 Odd
Vålerenga's biggest loss at home since 2003.
Viking 5-2 Lyn
Lyn's goal keeper Stramatopoulos played his last match for the Oslo club, next week he will go on loan to Fredrikstad, which means that Stramatopoulos will play against Viking next week as well. Hopefully with a better result, though.
Sandefjord 1-1 Molde
Molde played well, but stumbled, and the dream of winning the league seems far away.
Brann 4-2 Bodø/Glimt
Another good match by Erik Huseklepp, but he claims that he isn't thinking about a possible transfer. Bodø/Glimt was not pleased with the penalty that gave Brann the 1-0 lead. "No-one in yellow understands why it is a penalty, but that's how it is to play at Brann Stadion," was Kåre Ingebrigtsen's comment after the match.

Tromsø 2-1 Strømsgodset
Rushfelt was involved in this comic penalty:

But got his revenge with this great goal:


Rosenborg 2-1 Lillestrøm
Rosenborg was the better team, but needed a penalty to score the winning goal.




All goals from the 19th round so far:


Tonight: Aalesund - Fredrikstad

Start 2-2 Stabæk

The visitors from Bærum were up by two with just five minutes left to play when Start scored two goals in two minutes, 2-2 was a fair results for both teams as Start had a good first half and Stabæk had a good second half.

Apart from that the terrible back-pass from Petter Bruer Hanssen (and the following save by Kenneth Høie) and Bent Hulsker's horrible new mustache are both worth noticing in the highlights below. Plus the lovely lady celebrating the first Start goal.

Norwegian Teams in Europe: results

Stabæk 4-0 Tirana. Stabæk had no problems against the Albanians. Daigo Kobayashi had three assists, the central defender Pontus Segerström scored two goals, Fredrik Berglund and Pontus Farnerud scored one each, and Stabæk is now ready to meet the Danish side FC Kopenhagen in the next round.

(http://theballisround.co.uk was present at Telenor Arena, and has written a longer post about the match. Read it here)

Qarabakh 1-0 Rosenborg. A wonderous free kick by Rashed Sadigov made Rosenborg's face their first loss of the season and they are now knocked out of the Europe League.

Tromsø 4-1 Dinamo Minsk. Tromsø had a 1-0 at half time, but no control of the match, Dinamo Minsk had had several chances, however, in the 65th minute Stanislav Prahun was sent of after his second yellow card, and the match exploded, Tromsø scored three more goals, Dinamo Minsk scored one and had another player sent off.
Tromsø will play Slaven Belupo from Croatia next Thursday

16th of July: Results

Rosenborg - Karabakh 0-0
----------------Rune Almenning Jarstein--------------------
Mikael Lustig, Kris Stadsgaard, Alejandro Lago, Micke Dorsin
----------Alexander Tettey-- Anthony Annan---------------
Per Ciljan Skjelbred----Steffen Iversen-----Trond Olsen
------------------------Rade Prica---------------------------

Before the match Per Ciljan Skjelbred said that 7-0 would be a good result, but Rosenborg played one of the worst matches of the season. They had lots of possession, but was unable to score against the Albanian team.

Erik Hamren was not pleased with his teams performance.


Dinamo Minsk - Tromsø 0-0
---------------Marcus Sahlman------------------------------------
Tom Høgli---Tore Reginiussen--Douglas Sequeira,----Kevin Larsen
Lars Iver Strand --Ruben Y. Jenssen--Tommy Knarvik --Joel Lindpere
-------------Morten Moldskred---------- Sigurd Rushfeldt-----------

Dinamo Minsk started best, but Tromsø fought their way back into the match, and had a couple of chances to score, however 0-0 was a fair result for both teams.

Norwegian teams in Europe

Stabæk played against the Albania team Tirana yesterday, the final result was 1-1, Daigo Kobayashi scored an important away goal, and Stabæk should now manage to go through to the next round of the Champions League Qualification.


Rosenborg plays Qarabagh tonight at Lerkendal.
Marek Sapara is not going to play, as Rosenborg hopes to sell him during the transfer window.
Likely starting 11:
----------------Rune Almenning Jarstein--------------------
Mikael Lustig, Kris Stadsgaard, Alejandro Lago, Micke Dorsin
----------Alexander Tettey-- Anthony Annan---------------
Per Ciljan Skjelbred-----------------------------Trond Olsen
---------------------Steffen Iversen-------------------------
------------------------Rade Prica---------------------------

18th round

Lyn 0-1 Bodø/Glimt
Lillestrøm 1-1 Aalesund
Odd Grenland 1-2 Start
Hunter Freeman scored a lucky goal from 40m

Strømsgodset 0-1 Rosenborg
Fredrikstad 1-2 Sandefjord
Molde 5-2 Brann
It took Mame Biram Diouf 9 minutes to score a perfect hat-trick. 17 minutes later he scored another goal. A perfect chip from Huseklepp and a goal by Björnson was not enough for Brann, and in the last minute of the match Pepe Pate Diouf scored to make the result 5-2

10th of July

• Rosenborg - Runavik 3-1. (Europa league first qualifying round)
  Impressive match by the underdog from the Faroe Islands, and a nice goal by Karoly Potemkin, but Rosenborg was by far the stronger team, and won comfortably 6-1 after two matches. (watch the high lights here)
• Odd Grenland - Fredrikstad 3-1 (The Norwegian Cup)
• Brann - Lyn 1-0. (The Norwegian Cup)
  This is not looking good for Lyn, bottom of the league and out of the cup, but at least they won't be kicked out of their stadium because of the financial problems, at least not yet.
• Kjetil Rekdal accepts the 10 000kr (£1000) fine and one match ban penalty after his verbal attack on Erik Bakke.
  It was after the Aalesund-Brann match earlier this year that Rekdal and Bakke had a verbal fight. Rekdal called Bakke an alcoholic, and clearly referred to the former Leeds player's drunk driving conviction from 2003.
  
  

Results:8th of July

Vålerenga 3-1 Mjøndalen IF
Stabæk 4-0 Lillestrøm
Sogndal 0-1 Aalesund
Alta IF 0-1 Molde

• No teams from Adeccoligaen through to the quarter finals
• Both of Stabæk's top scorers, Nannskog and Kobayashi, started on the bench, but the team had no problems against Lillestrøm, Fredrik Berglund scored 4(!) goals.
  

16th round: Stabæk-Brann

Amazing goal by Huseklepp!

(spotted at adressa.no)

Match: Brann - Fredrikstad

Brann — Fredrikstad 2-1 (0-1)

0-1 Birkir Már Sævarsson (own goal 5), 1-1 Azar Karadas (65), 2-1 Armann Smari Björnsson (90).

• Fredrikstad combined great in offence, and did at least deserve a draw.
• Lots of hard tackles, several really good ones as well.
• How is it possible to miss a chance like this?
  (adressa.no)
• Tijan Jaiteh missed on open goal, and Huseklepp had a penalty saved, they should both be glad it didn't cost them the victory.
• Great play by Fredrikstad-goaly Erik Bråthen!
• Good use of substitutes by Steinar Nilsen, both Karadas and Björnson came in from the bench.
  

Results: 5th of July

Tippeligaen:
Bodø/Glimt 2 - 4 Molde
Viking 4 - 2 Lillestrøm
Start 2 - 2 Strømsgodset
Lyn 2 - 2 Stabæk
Aalesund 3 - 2 Vålerenga

Norwegian Cup:
Rosenborg 2 - 0 Løv-Ham
Tromsø 2 - 0 Bryne

• Another win for Molde.

• Odd Grenland will be pleased with Vålerenga, Start and Stabæk's lost points.
  

• Both Rosenborg and Tromsø are through to the quarter finals of the Norwegian cup, as expected against two small teams.