Starting as Viking (5th) travel to last season's champs Bodø / Glimt (2nd). Bodø / Glimt play a UCL 1st round qualifier against Legia Warszawa midweek. So maybe they will rest a few for this Viking game.
Anyway hopefully this is Bell's last club game before scurrying off to Japan, to meet up with a bunch of guys he hasn't trained with since Nov 2019, to prepare for South Korea in 18 days time.
Must give Stensness a bit of an edge over say Stamenic re team selection, that he's played with Bell before (U20 WC), and team will have limited time together (no mention yet of warmup games) before Sth Korea. 19 yr old Stamenic actually at a bit of a disadvantage as he wouldn't have really played with any of his Oly Whites team mates before?? Most of the other Ole guys would have left (being 2-4 years older) before he came through??
With such limited prep time, and not having been together since Nov 2019 (AWs friendlies) or the U20 WC, some old combinations likely will be key. Especially from that U20 WC team, many of whom know each other way back to their time at either Weenix or Ole.
Anyway hopefully this is Bell's last club game before scurrying off to Japan, to meet up with a bunch of guys he hasn't trained with since Nov 2019, to prepare for South Korea in 18 days time.
Must give Stensness a bit of an edge over say Stamenic re team selection, that he's played with Bell before (U20 WC), and team will have limited time together (no mention yet of warmup games) before Sth Korea. 19 yr old Stamenic actually at a bit of a disadvantage as he wouldn't have really played with any of his Oly Whites team mates before?? Most of the other Ole guys would have left (being 2-4 years older) before he came through??
With such limited prep time, and not having been together since Nov 2019 (AWs friendlies) or the U20 WC, some old combinations likely will be key. Especially from that U20 WC team, many of whom know each other way back to their time at either Weenix or Ole.