The Bergens are thus ready for the cup final at the Ullevaal stadium on 20 May, after having been clearly the best team on the reviled Nadderud mat, which was referred to as a potato fog before the semi-final match. 20 minutes had been played when Mathias Knutsen Rasmussen made a cross from the right. The ball crept over two piles inside the field and ended up with Aune Heggebø at the far post. He stretched out his left leg and poked in 1-0 to Brann. – A lovely goal, states the goalscorer. See the 1-0 goal here: – Dare to play Just before half-time, the people from Bergen could have gone a long way in breaking the game, but abused two big chances. – Good first half from our side. We dare to play. Yes, the mat is as it is, but we thought it was possible to play a little, and we have shown that, so now we have to continue with it and go for more goals, said Brann’s assistant coach Erik Huseklepp after the first 45 minutes. Brann’s first half was also praised by Stabæk’s former successful coach Jan Jönsson. – I thought I heard a player say that the pitch was not that bad, but many teams would have been very scared. How much do you dare to play? Brann has done very well, because they dare, without being foolhardy, said the Swede. Brann kept the initiative at the start of the second half, and it wasn’t long before Lars Bohinen took action. After 55 minutes, the Stabæk coach made two substitutions. Bloody Bakenga One of those who came in was veteran striker Mushaga Bakenga. Just ten minutes later, Bakenga went down for the count after being hit in the face by a Brann elbow. Despite the fact that it looked like an accident, the blood gushed, a bleeding that had to be stopped in order for the trønder to be able to continue playing. While Bakenga was being treated on the sidelines and Stabæk was a man down on the pitch, Brann struck again. In the 59th minute, the cup stopper Bård Finne scored 2-0, after being set free by Svenn Crone. Watch the 2-0 goal here: Bakenga got back on the field, and after 79 minutes the plastered substitute had a chance of all time when he was played through in the back room. But unfortunately for Stabæk, he was unable to outwit Mathias Lønne Dyngeland in the Brann goal, who saved brilliantly with his left arm. In the final minutes it was amped both ways, but there were no more goals. Brann has won the cup six times, most recently in 2014. On 20 May, the people from Bergen can claim their seventh NM title. Final opponents will be Lillestrøm or Bodø/Glimt.
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