We ran into Paul after the game in Drammen. How do you feel Lyn succeeded with the plan of attack against Strømsgodset?

-We were not pleased with the first half. However, in the 2nd half we did ok. We were very eager to get 3 points and produced more chances than before. Considering the chances they had at the end of the game, I felt 1 point was acceeptable as we could have lost the game.

Next to Paul there is a man with red hair. Who are U, white man?
-My name is Svein Roger Pettersen, with Lofoten as my origin. Together with Gunnar I am assistant coach and my special responsibility is development of the skills of our offensive players.

Which is leading us directly to a question regarding Kim Holmen. He doesn't get any chances this year. What happened?
-I concider Kim to be a better player this year compared to last year! If he scored on 3 out of 10 chances a year ago, he will score on 4 out of 10 chances this year. The problem is he doesn't get so many chances so far this year. Kim is only a small part of this problem; the main problem is our ability to produce more chances. And it will be unfair to not mention Espen Hoff when we talk about Kim's performance last year: Espen and Kim had a very good knowledge about each others expected moves.

Svein Roger, what are the observations after the Strømsgodsetgame?
-A weak 1st half. The 2nd is more satisfactory even though we could have lost the game at the end. More important we are increasing our production of chances; we counted 6 to us and 5 to Godset.

We want to see Fredrik Dahm again, is he ready to play after his injury?
-He is back, but I can't give you the team before tomorrow.

Sandefjord; what do we expect from them?
-We have analyzed their 4 games of course. It is a compact 4-4-2 team playing with high intensity. They have som special characteristics, without going in detail, because we might have a plan to take advantage of certain aspects. We expect to have the main ball possesion with Sandefjord starting out a little defensively.

Will their characteristics influece the team Lyn selects for Sunday?
-Yes and no. We are developing our own style, but we always want to take advantage of weaknesses in the other team.

How are you going to take advantage of the speed of Kim Holmen and Erling against Sandefjord?
-We have a plan and your question will be answered Sunday at 6!

Thank you Svein Roger, in case of feeling homesick, just click in to this selection of Lofoten photographs!