From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Denmark: Superliga round 3
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:17:58 GMT
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


Round 3, August 19th:

 AaB - AGF  3-2 (3-1)
   1-0 Peter M/oller (18)
   2-0 Peter Rasmussen (24)
   2-1 S/oren Andersen (31)
   3-1 Peter Rasmussen (35)
   3-2 S/oren Andersen (75)
   [ A truly exciting first half and a fine second half as AaB and AGF
     once again clashes in a high-intensity and prestige game. AaB
     opened the game as if they intend to win the league. Attack after
     attack rolled towards the AGF goal as AaB unfolded impressive
     technical play at an equally impressive pace. The AaB midfield
     and forwards again and again developed beautiful combinations,
     resulting in the otherwise solid AGF defense coming apart. Jan
     Pedersen has used the spring to become an integral part of the
     AaB midfield and is now proving himself as a invaluable
     organizational force, creating the killer passes that results in
     breakaway situations for the forwards. Peter M/oller should have
     scored on one such situation after ten minutes when he came alone
     with AGF keeper Troels Rasmussen, but as we have seen a number of
     time in the past few years, M/oller has some problems with the
     AGF veteran and so missed the chance. AaB kept the AGF team under
     solid pressure and with constant change of tempo and good
     individual and collective play, it was only a matter of how long
     AGF could withstand the pressure. After 18 minutes Jan Pedersen
     once again played a beautiful pass across the filed, bringing
     M/oller alone with Rasmussen, and this time M/oller hold on to
     the ball so long that it looked like the chance was missed and
     then scored with a fine flat shot. AaB pressed on, with Jan
     Pedersen, Henrik Rasmussen and Peter Rasmussen organizing and
     Peter M/oller stressing AGF in the front row. M/oller once again
     came alone with Troels Rasmussen after fine combinations between
     Jan Pedersen and Henrik Rasmussen and this time tried a "tunnel"
     - and missed. "He owes us a hatrick by now" my friend Frank
     remarked, and I quite agreed. AaB kept up the fine play, and
     more intelligent combinations led to a chance to M/oller that
     was saved by the AGF keeper, the rebound picked up by defender
     Henrik Larsen who played a cross close to the goal, easily pushed
     across the line by Peter Rasmussen. AaB then seemed to run out of
     steam for a while, allowing AGF to get more control of the
     midfield and time to organize their attacks. Stig T/ofting pulled
     his team up, while S/oren Andersen still lacks a bit of his usual
     speed. The AGF pressure paid off, and S/oren Andersen managed to
     turn up at the right spot in the box and score from close range.
     This seemed to wake AaB up, and they once again charged forward,
     resulting in 15 varied minutes with both team showing some fine
     offensive play. The AGF goal led the AGF fans to chant "M/oller
     go home", answered by the AaB fans by "AGF go home" and M/oller
     himself by a fine break in the field toward the post and then a
     beautiful pass in front of goal just as Troels Rasmussen dived
     to block the shot that never came. Peter Rasmussen only had to
     edge his head forward a few inches to score again. While the
     crowd was cheering and the AaB players applauding Rasmussen,
     M/oller ran out and paid a "tribute" to the AGF fans. In the
     second half the quality and pace fell, though still high. AGF got
     more say as AaB lacked the imagination of the first half, and it
     became obvious that while the team was doing great, Calle Facius
     is way below his usual standard, throwing far too many balls
     away. An number of good combinations among Jan Pedersen and
     Henrik Rasmussen in the left side of the field and a final good
     dribble by Rasmussen led him to a fine shot past the keeper and
     hitting the inner side of the post, with the ball bouncing along
     the goal line across the goal, much like Faxe's shot in the
     Denmark - England EC92 game. AGF pressed forward and once again
     S/oren Andersen popped up in the box and scored. A few minutes
     later Jan Pedersen played a good pass to Jens Jessen who came on
     as a sub for a tired Peter Rasmussen and Jan-Halvor Halvorsen
     slided clumsily into his legs in the middle of the box. Peter
     M/oller stepped forward to execute his third penalty in three
     games, but this time seemed in too much of a hurry and his weak
     shot was saved. All in all an entertaining, exciting,
     high-quality game with AaB having the better hand against and
     offensive and well-playing AGF team. Referee Lars Gerner did his
     very best to ruin the game in the classical way by at first being
     far to slow in pulling a yellow card for a number of bad fouls in
     an otherwise fair game, the realizing the mistake and giving a
     yellow card for a banal foul, confusing the players entirely. In
     the second half he lost the grip entirely, having no consequence
     and in one moment calling for fouls no-one could see and the next
     moment missing obvious fouls. This of course leads to aggression
     and bicthing, whereupon the referee tried to regain authority by
     handing out 4 yellow cards in the second half, all of them quite
     arbitrary. I am happy to report that *despite* the referees
     efforts, this game was one of the best I have seen in quite some
     time -- both teams can be proud. ]

 Naestved - FC K/obenhavn  0-2 (0-2)
   0-1 Martin Johansen (28)
   0-2 S/oren Lyng (37)
   [ Naestved announced during the summer that even though the
     finished last by a good margin in the spring, things would be
     different in the fall. With three lost games in three tries and a
     score of 0-10 it looks like there is some sort of discrepancy
     between words and action. Naestved tries and tries, they put up a
     good fight, they even manage to produce good chances to score,
     but nothing comes of it. Alex Nielsen had two big chances in the
     beginning of the game and missed, and instead FCK demonstrated
     efficiency by scoring the first time the Naestved off-side tactic
     failed. 10 minutes later S/oren Lyng was allowed to be free for a
     header in the middle of the box and keeper Brian Flies was caught
     halfway between goal and player and so left to watch the ball
     sail over him an into an empty goal. This sealed the game and FCK
     rolled it home without impressing -- or even trying to. ]

 B1909 - Br/ondby  1-2 (0-1)
   0-1 Kim Vilfort (44)
   0-2 Jens Madsen (62)
   1-2 Lars Larsen (74)
   [ B1909's new superliga team meets a Br/ondby team with lots of
     routine, and even though B1909 struggled admirably, routine
     managed to pull the victory home without ever being really
     threatened. Br/ondby is still not what they used to be, but at
     least Kim Vilfort seems to have realized that it's up to him to
     show some style -- and so he does. He controls the midfield, he
     creates chances, and since his team has no forwards to speak of,
     he scores the goals. Br/ondby controlled the first half without
     making much of it until good combinations between Vilfort, Henrik
     Jensen and Brian Jensen resulted in a fine volley into the box
     where Vilfort dived and scored with an excellent header. Br/ondby
     opened the second half still controlling events and it was only
     natural the Henrik Jensen after 20 minutes could pull of a nice
     pass to Jens Madsen, leaving Madsen with an easy score. Br/ondby
     now felt secure and moved back, leaving B1909 more play,
     resulting in a strong pressure against the Br/ondby goal. This
     seemed to surprise Br/ondby who had some trouble defending but
     their victory was never really in danger. ]

 Frem - Lyngby  0-0
   [ The champions meets the bronze winners. How on earth did these
     teams manage to win anything at all? One thing is certain:
     Glasgow Rangers should have no fear -- Lyngby will not be the
     team that ruins there European drams. Sigh. ]

 Silkeborg - OB  0-1 (0-0)
   0-1 Brian Steen Nielsen (54)
   [ A game with high intensity but less quality. OB proved that on
     top of having a good team they can *work* when they have to. OB
     was the best team and managed to get most of chances in a game
     that had few. OB should have taken the lead after 20 minutes when
     Allan Nielsen broke free in the box and was stopped illegally by
     Troels Bech, but Leon Hansen managed to miss the penalty. Brian
     Steen Nielsen and Allan Nielsen managed to secure control of the
     midfield for OB, and Alphonse Tchami proved to be always
     dangerous with quick runs. Still, it took a bad mistake by
     Silkeborg keeper Brian J/orgensen before OB could score:
     J/orgensen had secured the ball but managed to play it directly
     at the feet of Brian Steen Nielsen who said "thanks" and scored.
     Silkeborg didn't managed much of anything, though Morten Bruun
     had fine header towards the end that was saved in good style by
     Lars H/ogh. ]


Table:
                  G   W  D  L   GF GA   P
  OB              3   3  0  0    8  2   6
  AaB             3   3  0  0    8  2   6
  FC K/obenhavn   3   3  0  0    7  1   6
  Silkeborg       3   1  1  1    4  1   3
  Br/ondby        3   1  1  1    5  7   3
  AGF             3   1  0  2    5  6   2
  Frem            3   0  2  1    3  6   2
  B1909           3   0  1  2    2  4   1
  Lyngby          3   0  1  2    0  3   1
  Naestved        3   0  0  3    0 10   0


Top Scores:
  Martin Johansen (FCK)          4
  Peter M/oller (AaB)            4
  Peter Rasmussen (AaB)          4
  Kim Volfort (Br/ondby)         3
  Stig T/ofting (AGF)            2
  Keld Bordinggaard (Silkeborg)  2
  Brian Steen Nielsen (OB)       2
  S/oren Andersen (AGF)          2

Next game (August 23th):
  OB - AaB
  AGF - Frem
  Br/ondby - Naestved
  FC K/obenhavn - Silkeborg
  Lyngby - B1909


/Lars
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