Viking had to play almost 80 minutes with ten men after Kristoffer Løkberg got a red card after only 12 minutes. Løkberg fouled Bilal Njie, and received a direct red card from referee Rohit Saggi. The referee had no doubts and he gave a penalty in favor of Viking. – The expulsion is wrong, everyone sees it afterwards. It’s bad of me to put myself in that situation, but it’s boring that a mistake is corrected with a mistake. It is not expulsion, it is not free kick entry, it is “soft contact”, as it is called, Løkberg told Eurosport during the break. Haugesund’s Bilal Njie was of a different opinion. – The contact was there, and it was enough for me to fall. – Do you think that’s enough for a red card? – I do not know, that is what the judge will decide. – The expulsion looked a bit soft, said Viking coach Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim during the break. Three goals and a red card in 20 minutes The first 20 minutes of the match in Haugesund were very eventful. It only took four minutes before Viking was in the lead. Sebastian Sebulonsen scored precisely for Daniel Kalsbakk, who scored from close range. Four new minutes and it was balance. Aljoner Ndour received the ball from Viljar Vevatne and put the ball well in goal. Another four minutes, then came the expulsion. Løkeberg tried to round Njie after a corner, and even with Njie falling. The referee was quickly up with the card, and Viking was down to ten men. Then it went on for a full eight minutes. Søren Reese stopped a post with his hand, and the referee was punished to Viking. It put Samúel Fridjónsson safely and easily in goal, and the Vikings ten men lead 2-1. Half an hour was played when the Vikings’ goalkeeper had to return on a shot, and Peter Therkildsen snatched the ball and put it in goal. Haugesund cheered for what they were sure was an equalizer. Then referee Roggi came into focus again when he canceled, and gave Viking a free kick in the city. – We were sure of scoring, we were told about that on the bench, said Haugesund coach Jostein Grindhaug. But he did not have to wait long to score. Haugesund went hard after the break, and seven minutes after the break Ndour got a full hit and put in 2-2 completely inside the post. His eighth goal in this year’s elite series. It looked like the Vikings’ 10 men would be able to get one point in Haugesund. But six minutes before the end, the home team got paid for the advantage. Substitute Nikolas Walstad went to the dead line as he had so often done before in the match. The post went to Søren Reese, who put the ball in the net to 3-2 and the third straight loss for Viking. The last goal came almost two minutes into overtime. Martin Samuelsen drove the carousel with the Vikings’ defense, the ball still with Christos Zafeiris who poked the ball slowly over the line. – It meant a lot to score and be able to celebrate with the fanas, said Zafeiris, who scored his first goal for Haugesund in his first Rogaland derby.
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