Marked for Anders Bergholt
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ismaïl Seydi beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Maxime Soulas falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mohamed Cherif Haïdara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
5 new faces, and SonderjyskE are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Marcus Bundgaard is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Lirim Qamili knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lirim Qamili trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Mathias Wichmann
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
The leaders are next for SonderjyskE
FC Copenhagen top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lirim Qamili was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobias Klysner and SonderjyskE agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at SonderjyskE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Soulas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Oct 2026
Half the programme played, position 10, 11 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Christian Vestergaard chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Mathias Wichmann dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Crisis
Match21 Sep 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lirim Qamili in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SonderjyskE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
AGF wanted more than $44.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at SonderjyskE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Soulas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match19 Sep 2026
Viborg left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Sefer Emini knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at SonderjyskE, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.80 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to AGF this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Gustav Knudsen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
FC Midtjylland wanted more than $44.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Rúnar Þór Sigurgeirsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match29 Aug 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Alexander Lyng’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SonderjyskE.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.