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The director of the national emergency team expressed that he was not very impressed with VG’s case about Mats Møller Dæhli before the Austria match.
– I read that VG chose today to present statements from a journalist in Belgium, and that is an interesting angle. I think Mats responded quite well, that said. I reacted to that angle in such a match, for a man of honor like Mats Møller Dæhli. I don’t think so, was his clear message at the post-match press conference.
The background of Smerud’s reaction is the VG case “Norway’s emergency captain admonished in Belgium: – I hope he doesn’t chase me with the bat”, which was published in the run-up to the international match in Vienna.
Video: Watch the sequence where Smerud criticizes VG on top of the case!
Dæhli was named captain of the emergency national team against Austria and played a brilliant match at the Ernst Happel Arena.
The 25-year-old jumped on the plane from Belgium, where he usually plays for Genk, to reach the national match and responded with a very good performance despite little match training.
For the club team, things have not gone well for Lyn’s man, with the 25-year-old coming into the Austria game with just 20 minutes to play since August after being out of the call since October 3.
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This meant that there was a moment of emotion about how well the former St. Pauli player was equipped to play against a very good Austrian team, something that VG, among other things, highlighted on match day, through an interview with a journalist who follows the Genk. very close.
– It was a great disappointment, to be completely honest, was the verdict for the newspaper of the renowned Belgian journalist Kjell Doms, who follows the club week after week for the important newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws.
Doms further stated that he would have been concerned about Dæhli leading his national team, before jokingly adding that the Norwegian does not expect to “come after me with a bat for this.”
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Counterattacks: – We carry out editorial evaluations
After the match, VG’s national team journalist Arilas Ould-Saada asked Dæhli about what the match meant to him, and whether it seemed like he was playing for the whole country and to make up for everything that has gone wrong in the last years.
Genk’s profile would not completely agree.
– It has nothing to do with making up for anything. We wanted to fight and show those who sat at home that we are a team that fights for each other and for our country. I told that to the guys before the game. That we had to be brave and dry, responded the emergency captain before the acting director of the national team, Leif Gunnar Smerud, intervened after the interpreter translated Dæhli’s response and directed criticism at VG.
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Ould-Saada, who also spearheaded VG’s reveal about the feud between RB Leipzig striker Sørloth and national team coach Lagerbäck recently, makes no secret of his enthusiasm for Dæhli’s performance on Wednesday.
However, the role of the press stands out.
– Like others, Smerud suggests that it is the press’ s job to cheer on the Norwegian team on an important match day. That is a misunderstanding. It is not my job to facilitate or ruin the office of a football game. We do editorial evaluations based on journalistic criteria, and on a day when Mats Møller Dæhli was to be the captain of Norway in a major international match, we felt it appropriate to focus on how he actually does it in everyday life, says Ould-Saada to Nettavisen. .
– Ideally, of course, we should have had a proper interview with the player in connection with the same case, but due to circumstances, there was only a short response to a press conference. Otherwise the coverage was characterized by both positive and negative issues, which is appropriate in such a multifaceted situation.
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The VG journalist notes that “he will present a big flower to Mats Møller Dæhli for his performance both as a player and as a captain in a national match that will be remembered for a long, long time.”
– His post-match interviews reinforce the impression that he, as Smerud says, is a man of honor. But men of honor can also be criticized for their poor football performance, like everyone else.
VG Sports Director: – He sees it as completely natural
The VG football journalist covers the Norwegian national team very closely and arrived as late as the previous meeting at the center when Lars Lagerbäck expressed dissatisfaction with the way VG had covered the case about the dispute between him and Alexander Sørloth .
The Swede never said that the coverage was incorrect, but pointed out that it did not correspond to his reality.
VG sporting director Eirik Borud has no problem with disagreements between the newspaper and the national team.
– We prefer to create attractive journalism than to create content that is received with indifference. That there are occasional tensions between the country’s largest newspaper and the national soccer team, I see it completely natural, he tells Nettavisen.
He notes that his dialogue with the Norwegian Football Association (NFF) is good.
– We have experienced nothing but professionalism from them, whether they are senior management, the communication department or the sports team. Lars Lagerbäck and Leif Gunnar Smerud have only answered Arilas’s questions in their entirety, even though they have responded to individual cases.
– I don’t see any reason to broadcast anything more than that, because our reporters normally speak to association players regularly.
Congratulations to the Norway team: – Very impressed
Norway had few chances left in the decisive Nations League game against Austria, but the Norwegian players, hurrying together, exceeded all expectations.
Ghayas Zahid gave Norway the lead after the break, and Smerud’s team pressed for a long time for a 2-0 goal that would have given them group win and promotion to A-level.
Instead, Austria countered 1-1 in extra time, but both the performance and the efforts of Dæhli & co. was acclaimed after the game.
Striker Zahid made the long journey from Nicosia in Cyprus, through a quarantine hotel in Oslo and then to Vienna to get to the match.
– Today’s effort is deeply impressive. Ghayas had spent 12 hours flying from Cyprus to Norway, lying in isolation, flying here and barely moving his back. That he delivers what he does is deeply impressive, it is Smerud’s certificate on the APOEL player who, among other things, was rewarded with 8 in the Nettavisen player exchange.
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