VALLE (VG) (Vålerenga-Aalesund 4–0) After Vålerenga secured their fifth straight victory, Rosenborg coach Kjetil Rekdal wondered where all the experts – who wanted Vålerenga coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo out – had gone.
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– It’s nice, says Fagermo to VG after he sees the Twitter message to Rekdal.
Coach colleague Kjetil Rekdal posted the following message after the match:
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– I have to admit that the toughest period I was in as a coach – the period of hardship I had here. Firstly, I was surprised, and then it’s a big club that shouldn’t be where we’ve been – so I don’t hide it. I feel we have stuck with it, not changed anything and not been stressed, but worked hard to continue working with young talents and the way we play, Fagermo continues.
– What is it like when the experts and those around you want you out of the club?
– That’s how it is. That’s how it will be in a club like Vålerenga. I knew that when I came here. If Vålerenga is going to manage to get where everyone has ambitions and dreams about, it has to do it that way.
– I protect myself. I don’t look at the table or social media. So I don’t know who has been talking rubbish or criticizing me. But we have to realize that the start of the series was too bad, so I also have to endure criticism.
But now the Vålerenga coach can probably read about himself with a bigger grin on his face. The Vålerenga summer has been a party. The club grinded through July with a full pot, and a total of thirteen goals against Kristiansund, Sarpsborg 08, Viking and Jerv.
Vålerenga have scored four or more in their last three games: 4–2 against Viking, 5–2 against Jerv and 4–0 against Aalesund. It should never have happened before in the club’s history, according to Discovery.
The great talent Odin Thiago Holm showed rawness when he rose to the air and headed the Oslo club into the lead after a corner when the match was an hour old.
Osame Sahraoui followed up with a rush into the far corner. “Final product” has not been his middle name this year and Sahraoui pointed at his own head in the wild goal celebration.
– Nice to get another (scoring). We’ve had a lot of ups and downs, so it’s nice that we have an upswing now. All we have to do is continue and have that confidence in a humble way and take six in a row now, says Sahraoui to VG.
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Vålerenga coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo called for tempo and “ran through the defensive five” after a first half in which his team dominated, without creating buckets of chances.
After the rest, both the pace and the temperature on Intility rose. Aalesund stopper David Fällman ran into Vålerenga striker Henrik Udahl, who stormed into the field.
Udahl plunged into the artificial grass, before he lunged at referee Rohit Saggi.
But Udahl was going to get his revenge against the Swede anyway. 3–0 came after a duel between the two, where the Vålerenga striker got into an argument with the ball.
– Very nice to score and win, it can’t get any better than that, says Udahl to VG.
Just before the end, Seedy Jatta scored a long-awaited goal that ensured a 4–0 victory.
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