TEAM STROMMEN NEEDS TO REORGANIZE & GET BACK ON TRACK

21st  June 2009 Translation by Per Kristiansen

With yet another loss in Toppserien League play, this time away to Floya 1 - 2, Team Strommen faces a long and difficult path if they wish to get back to the top in Norwegian soccer. 

Earlier this week, Team Strommen received a blow when powerful defence player Hilde Hansen, announced her retirement at a time when the defence has been struggling. Two more blows came with the losses to Roa and Floya. This has been a remarkably bad week for the team.

Janne Jansson, the Team Strømmen coach, is aware of the problems and the situation, and he knows that the team needs to get back on a winning track. Kolbotn, the League leaders, are next up on Tuesday 23rd June, then Kattem and Staebek soon afterwards. To be able to fight for medals this season, Team Strommen will need to produce some strong victories against the best teams in the league.

Jansson feels that his team did not play badly. If victory depended on the chances you manufacture in a game and time of possession, then Team Strømmen would have earned 6 points in their last two games versus Fløya. The reality is that they earned only a single point. "We owned

the game, created chances and had possession for most of the match. But Fløya was cynical and effective. They took their chances and kept us closed down."

Jansson continued to say that it is not enough to score one goal in a game like this. We will never play negative soccer like Fløya, whatever happens, even if it costs us points. "I felt we were closing in and could still win the game when when Diana Matheson received Rhian's pass and scored. There were still 30 minutes left in the game, but it didn’t turn out that way I’m afraid."

Defensive left back Marit Sandvei did a good game, her third in a row as one of Team Strømmen's best performing players. She is normally a wing, but she took up the challenge and delivered very well in her new position.

The coach summed up the situaton by saying "’m pretty satisfied with the team in general; it was a much better game than the home game against them. The difficulty is that at the end of the day it is the goals which count and Team Strømmen hasn’t been scoring goals this season.

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