The OB Post
Match20 Mar 2029
A statement in Europe from OB
5‑0 against Sturm Graz, and a performance that will change how the rest of the competition talks about this club. Reputations in continental football are built in single evenings and this was one.
Squad26 Mar 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Noah Damsø
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. OB lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Nothing got past Anssi Suhonen
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 36 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market26 Mar 2029
Enzo Copetti hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Nathan, 33, rolls back the years — 8.93
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.93 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market26 Mar 2029
OB say no — this time
The offer from IA for Tómas Óli Kristjánsson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match20 Mar 2029
Nobody wins at OB
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Fiete Arp 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 OB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Olti Hyseni is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.01 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. OB know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
In brief
- Squad Rasmus Falk falls out with a teammate over standards
- Player ratings Julius Berthel Askou was immovable
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Jona Niemiec at his very best