Scores by Ole Didrik Blomberg, Aune Heggebø and Niklas Castro ensured that Brann took a comfortable victory in the big game against Rosenborg.
Brann went out of the cup in midweek after a humiliating loss away to Levanger. This has affected the Brann coach in recent days.
– I admit that I have felt the pressure after the Levanger match. We had to come up with a performance, says Eirik Horneland after the victory.
Ole Selnæs was not satisfied with what Rosenborg showed.
– What can you say, it’s too bad. We concede insanely easy goals, then again we are unbelievably ineffective in front of goal. Then we lose.
Directly on TV 2, the reporter believed that Rosenborg had only had one chance to score. That made the RBK veteran react.
– A chance to score, then I don’t know where you learned to count. We could have scored 3-4 goals and we had many great opportunities. In the last five minutes before the break we had three on the rap, so I don’t know how you count. We are terribly inefficient, says Selnæs.
Blomberg sent Brann into the lead already after three minutes when Rosenborg missed in the free play phase in their own defence. 16-year-old Håkon Volden had a bad touch which meant that the ball eventually ended up with the nimble Brann attacker who in turn dive-headed the ball into the goal with power in an arc over Sander Tangvik.
– Fire was supposed to tear Rosenborg to shreds, and that is exactly what they are doing. A quarter of an hour with a class difference between the teams, says TV 2’s expert Jesper Mathisen about the start of the match.
The Bergens continued to press the RBK team back into the pitch for large parts of the first half. After 20 minutes, Mikkel Konradsen Ceïde tried to put the Brann team offside, but failed so that Blomberg came alone with Tangvik. The finish went outside.
TV 2’s expert noticed the faltering RBK defence.
– Incomprehensible defensive play by Rosenborg. Konradsen Ceide tries to put Brann offside, but he is nowhere near that, says Mathisen.
The much talked about Volden had another unfortunate touch five minutes before the break and presented Aune Heggebø with a great chance. Again the Trønders escaped with horror.
Rosenborg created a couple of usable opportunities just before the break, but the attempts went wide and over.
Four minutes after the break, Brann doubled the lead. A brilliant cross from Niklas Castro found its way to Heggebø who crushed Rosenborg’s pair of stoppers and poked the ball into the net.
Soon after, Brann received a penalty after Tangvik was far too late in a duel inside the field. Denmark’s Emil Kornvig narrowly missed the penalty kick.
A quarter of an hour before the end, Castro scored Brann’s third. That was also the end result.