The IK Start Gazette
Match17 Apr 2038
No end in sight to IK Start's wait for a win
19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IK Start has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Jesper Cornelius, 36, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Markus Soomets falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match17 Apr 2038
IK Start come up short against Lillestrom
Lillestrom left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Erik Frøysa 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 IK Start this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
One of those days for Filip Strømland Lien
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Apr 2038
Emil Ogric runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Kristian Pedersen signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kristian Pedersen and IK Start agree another 4 years.
Squad19 Apr 2038
Johan Meyer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at IK Start 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Alexander Henriksen could not find anything
- Market Talks stall between IK Start and Jonathan Jackson
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Filip Strømland Lien