The Aalborg Gazette
Match26 Nov 2033
The wait goes on for Aalborg
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Nov 2033
Every point is an argument now for Aalborg
Position 11 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match23 Nov 2033
The small margins put Aalborg out
Out, 2‑3 to FC Nordsjaelland, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad28 Nov 2033
Michele Besaggio 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 Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Nov 2033
Words at Aalborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bjarne Pudel 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.
Squad28 Nov 2033
No hiding place for Kornelius Hansen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kornelius Hansen, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Nov 2033
Ninety minutes of Etiosa Ighodaro at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aalborg.
Match26 Nov 2033
Aalborg and Viborg take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad28 Nov 2033
Elías Pereyra 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Michele Besaggio
- Player ratings Lionel Gómez never got going
- Player ratings A day to forget for Maksym Tsymbaliuk