Rosenborg completed a thorough job against Nacional Camaratene in the first round of Norway's domestic cup, winning 9-0 on Friday evening. The visitors took all three points in a match that rarely seemed in doubt after the opening goal. M. Soboczynski opened the scoring in the seventeenth minute, and Rosenborg never looked back from that moment.
A. F. Witry doubled the lead before the half-hour mark, making it 2-0 in the thirty-second minute. The hosts had nothing to show for their first twenty minutes of play, and by then the visitors were already comfortable in their approach. E. Slordal added a third shortly after the interval, then struck again in the fifty-seventh minute to extend the advantage to four goals.
The match opened up further after the hour mark. E. K. Ceide made it five, A. Borgersen six, and T. Dahl seven in quick succession between the sixty-second and seventy-third minutes. N. Sahsah and J. Reitan-Sunde rounded off the scoring in the seventy-seventh and eighty-third minutes respectively. And here's the thing about a nine-goal margin — it is not usually decided by sustained pressure, but by a few moments where the opposition simply could not respond.
The statistics tell a story of their own, though they are rather blunt instruments. Both sides were credited with fifty percent possession, zero corners, and zero shots on target according to the match data. To be fair, the numbers do not capture the atmosphere inside the stadium or the confidence building in the Rosenborg ranks.
Rosenborg arrive in this cup tie with momentum. They beat Viking 2-1 and Lillestrøm 2-0 in their two most recent league outings, though they did lose 2-3 to Brann and fall 5-0 to Manchester United in their previous two fixtures. The result moves them clear in the competition, and Nacional Camaratene are now four points behind the leaders with one game in hand.