Moss played Haugesund at Mellos Stadion on 13 September 2026 in the First Division's regular season round 22. The visitors won 4:1, a result that keeps them clear at the summit while Moss slip further away from the relegation battle.
The opening minute brought a surprise. N. Semmen found the net for the hosts, and for a moment the home crowd thought they had caught the leaders off guard. To be fair, Haugesund recovered quickly. B. Leite equalised ten minutes in, and the momentum shifted. Sandberg added a second before the half-hour mark, and by then the visitors were in control of the tie.
We had called for a Haugesund win at 59 per cent confidence, and the match played out as expected. They were the stronger side on paper, and they showed it. Diarra made it 3:0 after the break, and Grindhaug rounded off the scoring late on. Moss never really found a rhythm after that first-minute spark.
Both teams registered 112 attacks and split possession evenly at 50 per cent each. Haugesund landed five shots on target to four, and their three yellow cards compared with Moss's one tell you about the pressure. The hosts worked six corners while the visitors took seven, but neither side created enough clear-cut chances to justify the scoreline. Many shots with four goals means someone was clinical and the other wasn't.
Haugesund sit first on 49 points from 22 games, with 16 wins and a single draw. Their five-match winning run includes a 4:0 victory over Dier on 8 September and a 2:0 win against Sogndal five days earlier. Moss remain 14th on 22 points, with six wins, four draws and 12 losses. The gap between them is now 27 points, and the table tells you everything you need to know.