July 6th: Moss - Skeid Oslo

[François]

Good luck to Patrice Bernier and Moss in today's game. The match is at 18h00 local time (noon here in Montreal).

[The pigfarmer]

We lost, again! 0-1. Guess how many opportunities Skeid had during this match......yes that's right, ONE! A player slipped trough on Skeid's right side, and came alone with the goalie. Penalty. And that was the only time they had a dangerous visit to the Moss' goal. Moss had completly control over this game for the remaining 89 minutes, and they produced a huge stack of good scoring opportunities, but failed to score. As usual. It has to be something mentally wrong with our players. I'm so empty and frustrated that I could lie down and die of sorrow and pain.

Patrice Bernier was Moss' best player today, again. Both the supporters and the local paper agreed on that. He's in really good shape these days, and if he were playeing on another, more succsessfull team he would have deserved a shot for the Canada National team. Rob Friend, who has been called by the National team from what I understand, do not deserve it, I'm afraid. He came in when there was aprox. 20 minutes left of the game, worked hard for three-four minutes and fell a sleep like a bear in the winter time. It was a bad tactical move of the coach to take out Amin Askar, the young technical offensive midfielder, who had worked hard all the game, and been involved in several good strikes towards the Skeid goal, and replace him with Friend. The Skeid defense was a huge wall of tall players who swept away any attempts to find a Moss head in the center, and in my opinion Amin Askar was the key to get around this wall.

But all in all, I have to say that I feel sorry for the guys today. They deserved to win this one with 4 or 5 goals, when you look at what they produced of opportunities. It has got to change for the better sometime! Please! What have we done to deserve this, God?

[Winnipeg Fury]

....at the Gold Cup for Canada, as he has been named as an alternate in case of last minute injury.

Moss look in real danger of dropping to the Third Division. Very Scary !

I suspect Bernier may have got a call for the Gold Cup if Canada wasn't so deep in the midfield. Do you think we may see Bernier in the Norwegian premier next season (regardless of what happens to Moss) ?

[Daniel]

I also think that Holger thought it'd be better to leave a first-year Bernier to his team if he's mid-season and doing so well.