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LYSEKLOSTER SPORTS TEAM IS continue in the cup and meet YMCA in the fourth round. Haugesund, Sandefjord, Bodø/Glimt, Brann, Rosenborg, Odd, Kristiansund and Tromsø have all been eliminated.
Lysekloster – in Latin also called Coenobium Vallis Lucidae – is a former monastery located by the Lysefjorden, 27 km south of Bergen.
If you had told the Cistercian monks who once ran it, that the upcoming sports team’s A team in football would one day in the future surpass Brann itself in the cup, they would have laughed at you.
FIVE OF THE TOP– eight clubs in the elite series table have so far suffered stinging defeats, some worse than others. The common denominator is still embarrassing, and far too bad. And certainly something to think about for those who still think it is possible to continue with the B team.
The elite series is left with only half of the teams after the three initial rounds, from the OBOS league there are six survivors.
From level three it is Eidsvold Turn and Lysekloster that dream on.
All this is part of the cup’s charm, and in the kingdom of Ashkeladden, that is also how it should be.
For the top football clubs, it is most embarrassing.
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ON LYSEKLOSTER’S WEBSITE is the following introduction for the club that stopped last year’s big sensation in the cup, the artificial grass monster Kjelsås: In Lysekloster Idrettslag, we have an A team in football and a wide range of football, handball and athletics. Welcome to us!
I don’t know what it’s like to read exactly that in Bodø, Trondheim, and Bergen, but it hurts, guaranteed.
Morten P
Morten Pedersen is a football and sports commentator and editor and publisher of the football magazine – 4-4-3 Gatelagmagasinet.
Have the top clubs caught on to Kjetil Rekdal’s little thanks-for-the-last-sting in social media – maybe a little extra painful too.
A lot has gone wrong in the tournament, which comes with a bonus called the Europa League, and for many it is just an extra layer in the sea.
That Kjetil Rekdal has a memory like an unforgivable elephant and reminds us that gravity still applies is, in a sense, the only normal thing.
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In 2023 WOULD the circumstances so that the Oslo team Kjelsås from level three went all the way to the semi-finals (0-1 Molde). An unplayable and downright dangerous surface on top of the NFF’s meaningless advantage clause – where the teams from lower divisions always get their home ground – paved the way for that.
This year, there are two tier three clubs still hanging on, with ever bigger dreams.
Not believing they can be there when the quarter-finals are drawn next week is therefore a bad bet.
Lysekloster is in 10th place in its division, and has beaten Fana, Stord and Kjelsås so far in the cup – all away from home.
YMCA is hereby warned.
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WITH MOLDE-SARPSBORG and Strømsgodset-Lillestrøm in the fourth round, at least two more elite league teams disappear before the quarter-finals are drawn. Vålerenga-HamKam, Raufoss-Fredrikstad, Levanger-Viking and the aforementioned Lysekloster’s home game against the YMCA can strain the legs of a few more.
The cup is very often wide open, and this year perhaps more than ever.
For everyone who doesn’t have many trophies in the cupboard, there is good news.
And of course the little brother advantage helps, the one that gives Eidsvold Turn, Levanger and Vålerenga home games, even though Sandnes Ulf, Viking and HamKam were drawn (for home games) first.
The justice in that is hard to see, but that’s how the NFF wants it.
