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MIDDLE FIELD: Toni Kroos (left) gives a final congratulations to Martin Ødegaard before the match against Real Sociedad. Photo: Alvaro Barrientos / AP
Rune Bratseth thinks it doesn’t sound so bad that Martin Ødegaard starts with Toni Kroos and Luka Modric in Real Madrid’s midfield.
The match against the old club Real Sociedad started at 9:00 p.m. and you can follow minute by minute on VG Live!
– So it’s absolutely amazing. Along with Kroos and Modric in midfield, that doesn’t sound stupid, that. It’s great for a Norwegian player to start there, and he has earned it. But the competition is tough, and it remains to be seen if he will consolidate his position in the team, says former national team cap and Werder Bremen profile Rune Bratseth.
Martin Ødegaard enters directly into the starting eleven of Real Madrid, which opens the series against the old Norwegian club, Real Sociedad.
– They don’t put him on the team to be nice to him. You have shown that you have taken the necessary steps in the necessary areas. After a few detours, he has finally emerged and shows that he is motivated, patient and disciplined, says Bratseth.
Although he is now at what the Trøndelag man calls “the top of the football pyramid”, Bratseth is not nervous that the 21-year-old cannot cope with the pressure of playing for one of the biggest teams. of the world.
National team assistant Per Joar Hansen, for his part, believes Ødegaard is now complete, completely up.
– It’s like receiving the Nobel Prize for football. So you’re at the highest level, you don’t climb higher than Real Madrid, says Hansen shortly after the news of Ødegaard’s start came through.
Ødegaard was brought in from Real Sociedad this summer, a club to which he was on loan last season. Now he is reunited with his Castilla Juvenil coach, Mr. Zinedine Zidane.
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– I’m not surprised at all when it comes to Martin, they’ve brought him home and wouldn’t have done it without a reason, Hansen thinks.
The Drammen player has struggled with a knee injury this summer, which kept him out of, among other things, the matches against Austria and Northern Ireland for the Norwegian national team in early September.
– I do not think he would have played today if he had not fully recovered. It is very gratifying that my knee is in order, it was a very difficult injury. We hope this means that he is ready to play the Eurocup playoffs against Serbia (October 8), says Hansen.
