Mathias Lien

Striker - Valerenga
17 Sep 2028
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The Valerenga Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Nov 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amir Jama

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valerenga lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match7 Nov 2027

Valerenga come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of Gornik Zabrze. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Valerenga

Alex Král 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.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Oscar Hedvall gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Another clean sheet for Oscar Hedvall

11 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Oscar Hedvall has given nobody the chance.

Boardroom8 Nov 2027

Valerenga release $4.1M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Loan watch8 Nov 2027

Mathias Lien counts the days

“I watch every Valerenga game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sarpsborg 08 runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Nobody could get near Filip Thorvaldsen

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market8 Nov 2027

The Henrik Bjørdal talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Valerenga know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Valerenga Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Oct 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amir Jama

71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valerenga lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Omar Bully keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Valerenga may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match9 Oct 2027

4 matches without a win for Valerenga

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Valerenga are no longer polite ones.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brice Ambina 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.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Valerenga

Mateo Peralta 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.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

One of those days for Aaron Kiil Olsen

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Loan watch11 Oct 2027

Mathias Lien counts the days

“I watch every Valerenga game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sarpsborg 08 runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Match9 Oct 2027

Aaron Kiil Olsen rescues a point for Valerenga

It needed Aaron Kiil Olsen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Stabaek, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

A day to forget for Carl Lange

Marked 5.04, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

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The Valerenga Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad13 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Valerenga

Alex Král 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Sebastian Jarl signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastian Jarl commits to Valerenga for another 4 years.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brice Ambina 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.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Henrik Bjørdal

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch13 Sep 2027

Mathias Lien has seen enough of Sarpsborg 08

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Valerenga, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nothing got past Brice Ambina

16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad13 Sep 2027

No place for Aaron Kiil Olsen on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Valerenga pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match11 Sep 2027

No goals between Valerenga and Haugesund

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Haugesund will be the happier side with the point.

Market13 Sep 2027

The Henrik Bjørdal talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Valerenga know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief