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- 46′Sandefjord, substitution:off
- 61′Start, substitution:off
- 72′Start, goal:1–0assist
- 72′Sandefjord, substitution:off
- 72′Sandefjord, substitution:off
- 80′Start, substitution:off
- 81′Sandefjord, substitution:offGustav Hojbjerg
- 84′Sandefjord, substitution:off
- 87′Start, yellow card:
- 87′Sandefjord, yellow card:
- 89′Start, substitution:off
- Full-time1 – 0
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Lorentzen's late goal gives Start 1-0 win over Sandefjord
Start beat Sandefjord 1-0 at Sør Arena in Eliteserien on Matchday 12, Håkon Lorentzen scoring the only goal in the 72nd minute. The hosts had gone into the game on the back of four defeats in their last five, and the result ended a run of three defeats in a row.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The first half finished goalless, with little to separate the sides on the scoreboard. Sandefjord held the larger share of the ball, finishing with 67% possession to Start's 33%, and had 18 shots to the hosts' 12, yet none of the visitors' efforts hit the target.
The breakthrough came in the 72nd minute when Eirik Schulze provided the assist and Lorentzen finished to make it 1-0. Start had two shots on target in the whole match, and one of them was enough. Sandefjord found no reply in the closing stages.
The win lifted Start to 19 points, still 16th, five points behind Sandefjord in 13th. Start next host Lillestrom in Eliteserien on Sunday 1 November, while Sandefjord travel to Aalesund in the league on Saturday 31 October.
John Norheim was the highest-rated player on the pitch at 8.3 for Start, who protected their one-goal lead after Lorentzen's strike. Rasmus Holten, rated 8.19, was Sandefjord's best-rated player in defeat.
Sandefjord had 18 shots to Start's 12 but failed to register a single shot on target, while the hosts had two.
Start beat Sandefjord 1–0 (half-time 0–0).
Start met Sandefjord in the Eliteserien (Regular Season - 12). Kick-off was Sunday, 25 October 2026, 16:00 UTC at Sør Arena. Referee: Rohit Saggi.
Team pages: Start · Sandefjord · Eliteserien
Key moments
- 72' Goal: Håkon Lorentzen (assist: Eirik Schulze) — 1–0
Starting line-ups
Start (5-3-2)
Sandefjord (4-3-3)
- 30 Elias Hadaya
- 4 Fredrik Pedersen
- 44 Xander Lambrix
- 13 Rasmus Holten
- 5 gustav hojbjerg
- 6 Sander Mørk
- 8 Tobias Børkeeiet
- 14 Edvard Pettersen
- 7 Evangelos Patoulidis
- 24 Sebastian Mathisen
- 27 Jakob Dunsby
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Start 36%, the draw 26%, Sandefjord 38%. It finished Start 1–0 Sandefjord.
Sandefjord's stronger rating gives them a slight edge — Sandefjord sit 151 points higher on our strength rating, 1461 to 1310, which puts them narrowly in front at 38% to 36%, though Start's home advantage and a cold finishing streak that tends to bounce back pull it closer. The draw starts near 28%, the usual rate for this strength gap, and that finishing streak plus typical scoring trim it to 26%.
Why Sandefjord at 38%?
Sandefjord sit 151 points higher on our strength rating — 1461 to 1310. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge on the road won 39.8% of 14,806 such games. The 300 most similar past games finished 32–26–42.
Why only 38%?
Start sit -0.63 goals per game below chance-quality — cold streaks like this have bounced back. Finishing swings carry a receipt at this rating gap too: sides finishing this cold won 38.5% of 2,943 such games where the class table expected 35.6%.
Why the draw at 26%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.6%. These teams' recent games average 2.9 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 24.8% of 27,185. The bounce-back factor takes 1.2 points off the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Out: Erlend Segberg and Jens Husebø, important players, and Kristoffer Tønnessen, a rotation player. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team. Sandefjord won 4 of the last 5 meetings with Start. The record is 4 wins for Sandefjord, 1 draw and 0 wins for Start. These were 5 Eliteserien games played between 2 April 2018 and 20 September 2026. Sandefjord are unbeaten in the last 5 meetings between the sides (4 wins, 1 draw), a run going back to April 2018. Latest meeting: 20 September 2026 — Sandefjord 3–0 Start. In 6,078 historical matches between similarly rated teams, visiting sides with the stronger head-to-head record won 28.1%.
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On this page: the Start vs Sandefjord final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Eliteserien fixture.
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