Mathias Meling

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Marked for Mathias Meling

102 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Jul 2028

Daniel Bassi asks to leave Lillestrom

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings10 Jul 2028

Thomas Lehne Olsen scores twice — 9.07

Two goals and a mark of 9.07 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market10 Jul 2028

Tobias Børkeeiet has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lillestrom they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match8 Jul 2028

Lillestrom find a way past Bodo/Glimt

Bodo/Glimt made Lillestrom work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Looking ahead10 Jul 2028

Derby week at Lillestrom

Valerenga next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.

The dugout10 Jul 2028

No hiding place for Eric Kitolano

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eric Kitolano, and the manager let it.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Lillestrom lose Mathias Meling

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout10 Jul 2028

Thomas Lehne Olsen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Lillestrom will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout10 Jul 2028

A satisfied Martin Lien

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Martin Lien could afford to be generous.

In brief

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37 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings12 Apr 2027

A brace, and Fredrik Gulbrandsen takes the afternoon — 8.98

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fredrik Gulbrandsen provided it, and the 8.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Boardroom12 Apr 2027

Lillestrom tie Martin Lien down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Market12 Apr 2027

So close: Stefan Hagerup’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Molde moved on, Stefan Hagerup reports back to Lillestrom, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Match10 Apr 2027

Nobody wants to play Lillestrom right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Lillestrom

Markus Solbakken 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.

Boardroom12 Apr 2027

Graduation day at Lillestrom

5 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.

Match10 Apr 2027

Lillestrom get the job done against Tromso

A 3‑1 win over Tromso, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Transfer targets12 Apr 2027

Lillestrom rebuffed over Jacob Ambæk

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Midtjylland have kept their man, and Lillestrom go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces12 Apr 2027

The crowd has taken to Daniel Bassi

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief