The Lillestrom Courier
Squad5 Nov 2035
The knee: Ange Pognon out for 33 days
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lillestrom lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Nov 2035
Lillestrom tear Ranheim apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Ranheim, and it could have been more.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Mats Falk Skodjevåg breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
A brace, and Alexander King takes the afternoon — 8.24
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexander King provided it, and the 8.24 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout5 Nov 2035
Aksel Bergsvik keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lillestrom may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
Erling Odegaard, 21, steals the show — 7.89
Marked 7.89 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The terraces5 Nov 2035
One of their own: Alexander King
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match3 Nov 2035
Lillestrom settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Ranheim spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad5 Nov 2035
Words at Lillestrom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jón Hrafn Barkarson 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.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Lillestrom
- The dugout A satisfied Thorgan Doku
- The dugout A promise honoured at Lillestrom