Start 0-3 Viking: result and report
Eliteserien · Saturday 1 August 2026
Result
Start 0-3 Viking
Eliteserien · Saturday 1 August 2026, 16:00 UTC · Sparebanken Sør Arena, Kristiansand · half-time 0-3
Start 0-3 Viking: match report
Start were beaten by Viking 0-3 in the Eliteserien on Saturday 1 August 2026 at Sparebanken Sør Arena. It was 0-3 at half-time.
Zlatko Tripic opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Start did not score. Viking scored through Zlatko Tripic (5', penalty), Peter Christiansen (18') and Edvin Austbø (22').
Discipline: Start received 2 yellow cards; Viking received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Start were 16th on 10 points from 15 and Viking 2nd on 34 points from 14. In the current table Start are 16th on 19 points and Viking are 1st on 59 points.
Start lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Viking in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Peter Christiansen of Viking (8.4), ahead of Zlatko Tripic (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Start wins, 0 draws and 1 for Viking.
Going into the match Start's last five read W-L-L-L-W and Viking's D-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 5'Penalty goal · Zlatko Tripic
- 18'Goal · Peter Christiansen
- 22'Goal · Edvin Austbø
- 33'Yellow card · Zlatko Tripic
- 34'Yellow card · Sondre Bjørshol
- 45+2'Yellow card · J. Ampofo
- 57'Yellow card · Tobias Moi
- 68'Yellow card · S. Mvoué
Form and table
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Start line-up (3-4-1-2)
J. Pryts, Erlend Dahl Reitan, John Norheim, Jens Berland Husebø, Ousmane Diallo Toure, S. Mvoué, H. Lorentzen, T. Strannegård, E. Schulze, J. Cornelius, J. Ampofo
Viking line-up (4-5-1)
Arild Østbø, Sondre Bjørshol, Henrik Heggheim, Viljar Vevatne, Kristoffer Haugen, Kristoffer Askildsen, Tobias Moi, Simen Kvia-Egeskog, Zlatko Tripic, Peter Christiansen, Edvin Austbø
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