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– It’s the sickest thing I’ve ever seen! What? Erik Thorstvedt exclaimed in TV 2’s studio after Ole Sæter’s goal.

The Trønderspissen had sat on the bench for 61 minutes before RBK’s new coach Alfred Johansson decided to take action. Four minutes later, the ball hit the goal, with a score that is already being declared the goal of the year in the Eliteserien.

Sæter drew a Zidane feint around 30 meters from the visitors’ goal, before charging the cannon. “What is he doing?” Johansson managed to think, while parts of the audience shouted “don’t shoot!”.

The rusher found his way to the farthest crossing and back his teammates were almost in shock.

– This one is going to go viral. It is a candidate for goal of the year. Who is shooting from that position? You must be stupid?! said TV 2’s Jesper Mathisen.

– There is probably a candidate for that. At least it’s a contribution to three points, that’s the most important thing in the big picture, smiles Sæter to NRK.

From the bench, he had visualized what he would do if he got the chance from distance.

– If I get the ball from a distance, I have seen that the goalkeeper is far out. Then I will shoot. I get a variation of it. It was good to see it go in, says the forward.

Thought that Henriksen should have been expelled

Sæter’s score stole the headlines in the end, but until then Markus Henriksen’s behavior on the pitch had received the most attention.

After 32 minutes, Henriksen was rewarded with a yellow card. Now the former national team player lived dangerously. However, the 31-year-old continued to do well in the duels, and just before the break he kicked Jakob Maslø Dunsby to the ground.

But narrowly escaped and was allowed to stay on the field, to the surprise of many.

– It is so incredibly cowardly and ill-judged. There, Henriksen will be sent to the dressing room. He has no opportunity to take the ball, he just kicks Dunsby down. It is difficult to understand what the referee is doing, said TV 2’s expert Jesper Mathisen.

Sandefjord coach Hans Erik Ødegaard also believes that Henriksen should have been expelled.

– He kicks him straight down. A clearer card will not do. He loses the ball and it is an act of revenge and stops a transition. It will be decisive today. It is incredibly weak, he says to NRK.

Henriksen believes that he should never have received a yellow card in the first situation, and that the referee was influenced by it.

– As I had a yellow, I could have been unlucky and got a yellow in situation two. And there I think that the referee, because he knows he made a mistake on the first one, keeps it. It’s a bit like that, I could have been very unlucky and got two yellows.

– There’s no point in making a bigger deal than it is. It is a bit of a job for those who sit in the TV 2 studio to create a little extra fluff. They can think what they want, it was yellow in this case, says the RBK captain.

Turned for VAR pictures

Just after the break, however, referee Sivert Amland raised the red card. It happened after Fredrik Berglie had tackled Sverre Nypan to the ground.

Soon, however, Amland received a message in his ear. Please take a look at the screen, was the message from today’s VAR referee Tom Harald Hagen.

After seeing the pictures, the referee changed his mind and showed Berglie the yellow card instead.

Hope for cruel recharge

Rosenborg’s start to the season started with a loss to Las Palmas’ U19 team and ended with a humiliating 5-0 loss to Viking.

Trønder seemed to be far from the top flight shortly before the start of the elite series, and after the game both the players and the Trondheim club’s new coach Alfred Johansson agreed that the performance was unacceptable.

The Trønders came out on fire on the brown Lerkendal mat, and were close to scoring when Nypan nodded the ball aside for a goal. It happened just after a huge chance for Sandefjord’s Eman Markovic, who hit the post with his finish.

Both teams had usable chances, but it wasn’t until Sæter entered the pitch that it was a big deal. He secured Johansson a dream start to his Rosenborg career.