The Odd Post
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Josef Baccay
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Odd
Tobias Børkeeiet 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Odd
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Josef Baccay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Josef Baccay makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Noah Kojo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Kojo, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The armband comes off Filip Rønningen Jørgensen
Odd will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Filip Rønningen Jørgensen 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 Odd, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Patrick Haaland on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Hinrik Harðarson could have had three
17 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Jacob Buus
- Match Odd and Mjondalen cancel each other out
- Looking ahead Nikolas Walstad faces his old club