The Esbjerg Courier
The terraces24 Jul 2028
Anger at Esbjerg spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
James Ampofo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Lasse Vigen, 33, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Jul 2028
Marcus Hansen puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Esbjerg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Jul 2028
Esbjerg get their man
The chase for Andreas Gülstorff ended with $720.0K changing hands and SonderjyskE out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Frederik Emmery at Esbjerg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frederik Emmery is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Kelvin John 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 Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Esbjerg
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Jul 2028
Esbjerg promote Victor Dalsgaard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Victor Dalsgaard has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Frederik Damsgaard joins the Esbjerg first team
- Match Lasse Vigen sends Esbjerg past SonderjyskE
- Squad Words at Esbjerg training over how hard people work