The Randers Post
Squad9 Aug 2027
Nicolás Álvarez damages knee ligaments — 64 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 64 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
No sign of nerves from Mike Themsen at 21 — 9.38
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mike Themsen did not need any: 9.38, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Paul Izzo keeps Randers in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Paul Izzo 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Ousseynou Seck
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Aug 2027
Randers see off OB
Three points for Randers, 2‑1 the final word against OB in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Thibault Klidjé in the eights
A performance of 8.45 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Greg Taylor has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Randers know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market9 Aug 2027
Ernest Agyiri is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Randers has been clear about where Ernest Agyiri stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market The Mike Themsen talk will not go away
- Market Randers put André Rømer up for sale
- Market Sigurd Jensen leaves for nothing