SOCCER MEDIA REPORTS:
GIGANTIC MISKICKS COST TEAM STROMMEN
3rd May 2009
Translated by Per Kristiansen
This was a game in which Team Strommen should have defeated Kolbotn. Instead,
miskicks cost them dearly and they lost 1-0.
Ida Elise Enget and Una Nwajei were the players who missed the chances, but the whole team was not
functioning well after their long layoff. This was their first loss of the season. Ida says that she was "certain
she was going to score. I had no idea that I could miss the goal." At about the ten minute mark, she received
a great through pass from Nasra Abdullah. She had time to tee up the shot, but she fired wide of the far post.
Ida knows that" after such a loss, that shot is going to haunt me for a few days."
Then, just a couple of minutes before the game ended Una Nwajei got a wonderful chance as well. However,
her volley was saved by an athletic Kolbotn goalkeeper.
Except for these two chances, neither Team Strommen nor Kolbotn showed much creativity in the game. As
the Team Strommen coach Janne Jannson reported, this was "a bad game, full of bad plays, on bad turf. On top of this, it was
a bad loss and a bad result."
The coach was at a loss to explain it all, but the poor grass was probably a factor. He felt that the team started
and finished well, but there wasn't much in between. Neither team played at the level expected.
Another factor may have been that Lene Storløkken didn’t play. She was out with a knee injury. And, he expected
more from Nasra Abdullah.
Jansson said, " Our goal now is to forget this game as soon as possible. We have many games ahead of us and we
need to focus now. Our passing, and Kolbotn's, was extremely bad and the game was boring
to watch. Kolbotn didn’t create
anything at all. However I'm not sure that we can call their goal lucky, when we missed two excellent chances to score ourselves."
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