Start vs Lillestrom 0-1

Lillestrom left Kristiansand with a 1-0 win after Gustav Kjolstad Nyheim's first-half strike proved decisive. Start had the late VAR review and red card as well, but never found an equaliser.

The only goal arrived in the 30th minute, when Nyheim scored from Filip Ottosson's assist to make it Start 0-1 Lillestrom. Lillestrom took that lead into half-time.

Start made two changes on 68 minutes, with Steve Mvoue and Jesper Cornelius coming off for Eirik Schulze and Nikolaos Koutsakos. Lillestrom then made two changes on 79 minutes, sending on Henrik Molvaer Melland and Fredrik Gulbrandsen for Yildren Ibrahimaj and Thomas Lehne Olsen, before a final switch on 88 minutes. Start kept pressing through a run of substitutions, but their only shot on target never brought an equaliser. Altin Ujkani came on in the 86th minute, then had a card upgrade confirmed by VAR in the 90th minute and was sent off in the 90th minute plus five.

The numbers were close on possession, with Start on 49% and Lillestrom on 51%, but Lillestrom had more of the threat: 22 shots to 12, four on target to one, and an xG edge of 2.18 to 1.34. Start had more saves, 3 to 0, while corners finished level at 5-5 and fouls at 11 apiece. Lillestrom also completed 472 passes to Start's 450.

Felix Vá was booked for Lillestrom in the 45th minute. Altin Ujkani's red card for Start followed the VAR review in stoppage time.