“AV9 teams are usually tough for norse. Also, it's been a while since my norse were this high on TV and I recall high TV being really difficult for em. That's why I wasn't too confident entering the field for this one.

They receive first and pick the ball up with their MA8 blitzer. They start bashing away and quickly get two norse linemen knocked out. They get my runner badly hurt on turn 4 and I use apo on him. My ST5 ulfwerener makes a brave attempt for the ball and dies trying to dodge for a blitz. That might be a blow I'm not able to recover from. They easily stall till turn 8 and score.

2nd half starts and the get a Blitz! kickoff. That gives them an advantage and I'm forced to make a ridiculous pass to an ulfwerener, which surprisingly works! He trips a GFI though and the ball's loose. My berserker makes a sweet crowdpush move and gets the ball. They fail to knock him down and I break free and score on T3. That's way too early as I'm missing a few key players already, and indeed, they're able to proceed with the ball with ease. They focus on tying up my players for bash and overlook properly protecting their ballcarrier and I'm able to blitz him down on our turn 6. They steal the ball back on their next one though, but we knock em down again. They can't get the ball up and the norse have fought off a tie.

I really didn't think I had a chance when 2nd half started. After the Blitz! I thought I was done but after that everything went the norse's way. Some fine rolls on 2nd half and pows in the right place saved us this time! They did trim our TV down nicely ;)

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