Start vs Rosenborg - prediction, team news, lineups

Start invited Rosenborg to Sparebanken Sor Arena connected Saturday afternoon, with the hosts hopeless to ascent disconnected the ft of the Eliteserien table, portion the visitors look to proceed their revival nether caller caput manager Freyr Alexandersson.

The location broadside are enduring a hard instrumentality to the apical flight, presently 5 points disconnected safety, whereas the visitors caput into the play successful 12th place, hoping to unafraid consecutive league victories for the archetypal clip this season.

Match preview

Start person endured a miserable archetypal fractional of the campaign, collecting conscionable 7 points from their opening 13 league matches aft signaling 1 win, 4 draws and 8 defeats.

Azar Karadas' broadside resumed league enactment with a 2-1 decision to Brann past weekend, making it 2 Eliteserien losses connected the bounce aft besides falling 2-1 distant to Fredrikstad earlier the mid-season break.

Their biggest contented has been astatine the antiaircraft end, with Start conceding 30 goals successful 13 league games, comfortably the worst antiaircraft grounds successful the Eliteserien, and unless they tighten up quickly, their enactment successful the apical formation could beryllium to beryllium a abbreviated one.

Home signifier has astatine slightest offered immoderate encouragement, with their lone league triumph of the run coming astatine Sparebanken Sor Arena against Valerenga, portion they person mislaid conscionable 1 of 5 games connected location ungraded (D3).

Standing successful their mode is simply a Rosenborg broadside opening to amusement signs of betterment nether Alexandersson, who enjoyed a winning commencement to his reign with a convincing 3-0 triumph implicit Kristiansund.

That occurrence followed a respectable 2-2 gully against rubric challengers Bodo/Glimt earlier the break, meaning the visitors are present unbeaten successful their past 2 league outings aft antecedently struggling for consistency.

Rosenborg person won lone 3 league matches each season, but they present person an accidental to physique momentum against the division's bottommost side, though their distant signifier remains an country for improvement, having failed to triumph connected the roadworthy truthful acold this play (D1, L4).

However, past favours the visitors, who are unbeaten successful their past 18 competitory meetings with Start, signaling 14 victories and 4 draws during that tally dating backmost to 2009. 

Rosenborg person besides won connected 5 of their past six league visits to Sparebanken Sor Arena, signaling a gully successful the astir caller 1 backmost successful 2020, and they volition beryllium assured of extending that dominance against acquainted opponents.

Start Norwegian Eliteserien form:

Rosenborg Norwegian Eliteserien form:

Team News

Start person a fewer wounded concerns, with Johan Meyer ruled retired by a groin injury, portion Kristoffer Tonnessen and Filip Lien are besides unavailable owed to limb and ft problems respectively.

Marius Nordal is simply a uncertainty to feature, arsenic helium is dealing with an illness, but otherwise, Karadas has a mostly disposable squad arsenic helium searches for antiaircraft improvements aft different disappointing show against Brann.

The hosts are expected to proceed relying connected goalkeeper Jacob Larsen, portion they volition apt deploy a back-five portion hoping for a overmuch stronger show defensively.

Rosenborg, meanwhile, are acceptable to beryllium without midfielder Elias Slordal, and defender Aslak Fonn Witry, who are retired with respective injuries.

Simen Nordli is hoping to retrieve successful clip from a thigh wounded that kept him from featuring successful the triumph implicit Kristiansund.

Amin Chiakha is expected to spearhead the onslaught erstwhile again aft getting connected the people expanse again past clip out, portion Alexandersson is improbable to marque galore changes pursuing past weekend's comfy victory.

Start imaginable starting lineup:

Larsen; Reitan, Jebali, Norheim, Ujkani, Strannegard; Mvoue, Segberg, Ugland; Lorentzen

Rosenborg imaginable starting lineup:

Wahlstedt; Mortensen, Volden, Nemcik, Dahl; Ceide, Vaananen, Bomholt, Duris; 
Chiakha, Islamovic

We say: Start 1-2 Rosenborg

Rosenborg look to person turned a country nether their caller manager and person greater prime passim the squad than their struggling opponents.

Start's location performances person shown occasional promise, but their antiaircraft frailties stay a large concern, and with the visitors besides holding an fantabulous caller grounds successful this fixture, we expect them to borderline different important victory.

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