Patrick Lien

Goalkeeper - Odd
11 Aug 2047
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1084 Edition

The Odd Post

6 May 2047
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 May 2047

A knee injury of the worst kind for Adam Lewandowski

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

Squad6 May 2047

A fracture rules Dries Vanaken out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Odd will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad6 May 2047

Tim Haksteeg keeps Odd in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad6 May 2047

Patrick Lien has been here 11 seasons

23 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings6 May 2047

Ole Ajer scored one and made one — 7.89

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.89, and 2 involvements.

Match4 May 2047

Odd and Bodo/Glimt take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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1033 Edition

The Odd Post

14 May 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 May 2046

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tim Haksteeg

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

Match12 May 2046

Ole Ajer leads the rout of Valerenga

4‑0, and Ole Ajer took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Odd tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match9 May 2046

Odd out of the cup

Stabaek ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad14 May 2046

Patrick Bohinen breaks a bone — 66 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 May 2046

A day Ole Ajer will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings14 May 2046

Jens Bjorkan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 May 2046

Patrick Lien keeps Odd in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings14 May 2046

Age has not caught Adam Lewandowski yet — 8.34

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.34 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings14 May 2046

Ninety minutes of Ole Ajer at his very best

Marked 9.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Odd.

In brief

1010 Edition

The Odd Post

4 Dec 2045
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Dec 2045

A fracture rules Henrico Lok out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Odd will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match28 Nov 2045

Odd come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of Dinamo Bucharest. 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.

Squad4 Dec 2045

A one-man rearguard from Tim Haksteeg

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad4 Dec 2045

The season belongs to Adam Lewandowski

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Odd have had the benefit of it.

Squad4 Dec 2045

10 seasons of Henrik Pedersen

21 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Odd know what they have.

Market4 Dec 2045

Patrick Lien is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Odd has been clear about where Patrick Lien stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market4 Dec 2045

Morten Meling brings the grey hairs Odd lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market4 Dec 2045

The Jonathan Dixon question follows Odd around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jonathan Dixon’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings4 Dec 2045

Nobody could get near Adam Lewandowski

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief