This is yet another post where Lotta acts as if he knows everything about The Beautiful Game and the future. You may ask yourself how he has come by this valuable information, and if he would like to share it you. The answers, my friends, are not blowing in the wind. The answers are only a mouse scroll away…
This post is merely how I think the results will stand when all the games have been played. I will not go deeply into the why and the wherefore’s; those are easily acquired at your nearest pundit website.
I believe that RBK will have terrific season in both the Champions League and the Tippeliga. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, seeing as I am an avid supporter of the club and have been known to digress into yelling pointless profanities at the TV-screen when things are going badly. I firmly believe that we will have the best season since Åge Hareide was our coach, and that Marek Sapara and Steffen Iversen will be the duo that brings home the gold.
The Tippeliga will be as close as ever, and our two greatest contenders will be Brann and Lillestrøm. Brann will have good spring season, but will mess it all up in the autumn games, like they tend to do. Lillestrøm have good chance to beat us this year, but they won’t be consistent enough to beat RBK in the long haul. I also have doubts about their new formation and the players in the starting XI. Simen Brenne is not a worthy replacement for Robert Koren, and he will become to light as a ball distributor. Karim Essediri is a wild card that may come through, but probably won’t.
Vålerenga will be a very consistent team; winning their home games and bringing back the points from teams that will end beneath them in the table. However, the XI is not very strong, and if Sørensen or Fredheim Holm suffer injuries I can not see any good replacements up front.
I hope that Tromsø will be this years suprise, like Stabæk was last years and Start the year before that. Steinar Nilsen is a cunning coach that rules over a team with good strikers and defenders, but a very weak midfield. They have done well in the training matches, and I believe their good form will continue into the summer.
The bottom half is very much up in the air. I am not at all sure of what Odd Grenland is good for without Svindal Larsen and Pelle Nilsson, but I can’t see them being relegated. Sandefjord will suffer the pains of the second season. They have the league’s weakest side, and it will show when the injuries start piling up.
What is a sure way to get relegated? Hire a Swedish coach (and sack the greatest coach they ever had…), change the formation, sell your best player and buy two small Africans that will have a very hard time adjusting to the hard style of Norwegian Football. Fredrikstad is going down. No doubt about it.
- Rosenborg
- Lillestrøm
- Vålerenga
- Brann
- Start
- Viking
- Tromsø
- Lyn
- Stabæk
- Strømsgodset
- Aalesund
- Odd Grenland
- Sandefjord
- Fredrikstad
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