For my second game of the October Norway tour I wound up at a very wet and windy Randaberg Stadion for a Third Division match between Randaberg and Kopervik. Seeing as this was 5th against 4th in the league and the penultimate game of each teams season this was always going to be a tight affair. The conditions didn't make for a great spectacle as the swirling wind and rain made playing any sort of football difficult but the home side created the better chances in the first half hour, flashing a couple of balls across the face of goal and also having a shot from distance go just wide. The visitors struggled to create anything of note, that was until the 33rd minute when a cross from full back Van Le caught the wind as it was heading harmlessly towards goal and the keeper went to catch the cross and the ball slipped from his grasp and he and the ball fell over the line. It was harsh on the home side who had made most of the running. The second half continued in the same vein as Randaberg had a few sights of goal but they failed to test the keeper and they dominated possession restricting Kopervik to one or two breakaways which came to nothing. The only time Randaberg did test the keeper was from a downward header from a cross but most other crosses into the box, of which there were a few, were repelled by the Kopervik back four. You could call this away win a smash n grab although it wasn't as clear cut as that, but certainly Randaberg would have felt hard done by to have lost this game 1-0. It was a frustrating afternoon for them in what was their final home game of the season.
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