My third game of my latest Norwegian tour took me to another local Stavanger side Madla IL as they were going for promotion to the Third Division, Norway's fourth tier in the pyramid, in the final round of the season. They started on the front foot and to be honest never really let up as they totally dominated the game. They took a deserved lead on 14 minutes when the visiting keeper's goal kick went straight to Madla's nine and he rounded the keeper before slotting home. The home side continued to create chance after chance but failed to covert any of them. Madla's keeper had virtually no touches of the ball in the first half as all the play was up the other end. Madla finally doubled their lead seven minutes into the second half when a great crossfield pass was knocked into the box were seven finished well in off the post. More chances were missed by the home side before Voll managed a proper effort on goal on 68 minutes when they headed wide but Madla should of been well out of sight at this stage. A third goal did eventually arrive on 73 minutes courtesy of a powerful header from a corner kick but Madla seemed to have taken their foot off the gas slightly at this stage as the rain began to fall and with twelve to go Voll managed their only shot on target from the edge of the box and this ended in the corner for 3-1. The next few minutes saw Voll have their only sustained pressure on the home side but on 82 minutes Madla broke out in devastating fashion and the ball was duly squared to seven who took a touch before firing past the keeper. Madla rounded off the scoring by grabbing a fifth on 89 minutes thanks to another close range header from a corner and the full time whistle sparked jubilant scenes from the home players, management and fans as they had realised there dream of promotion and go up to Division Three next season.
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