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READY TO PLAY: Erling Braut Haaland. Photo: Bjørn S. Delebekk / VG
MARBELLA / OSLO (VG) Dortmund star Erling Braut Haaland (20) will play the World Cup qualifier against Gibraltar.
This is confirmed by elite NFF Director Lise Klaveness to VG.
– The rules may change, but at the moment the situation is such that all the players in the squad are free for all three games, he says.
VG has previously written that Ståle Solbakken may have to dispense with the Norwegian top scorer in his first game as coach of the Norwegian national team. This is because Gibraltar is considered a British Overseas Territory.
In practice, this meant that Haaland would have to be quarantined after the national team meeting and thus lose several games to Borussia Dortmund.
– This is fine, but now I have to go back up to the room. He’s back on the drawing board. Now I have to reconsider everything. He hadn’t planned for this scenario, national team manager Ståle Solbakken tells VG.
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Haaland made his debut for the national team on September 5, 2019 against Malta. On September 4, 2020, he scored his first goal for the national team for Norway against Austria and on October 11, 2020, he scored his first hat-trick for the national team, at home against Romania.
The first selection of the Solbakken national team includes five players based in Germany. Haaland is mentioned, in addition to first goalkeeper Rune Almenning Jarstein (Hertha Berlin), Mats Møller Dæhli (Nürnberg), Julian Ryerson (Union Berlin) and Alexander Sørloth (RB Leipzig).
The players of the Norwegian team who are based in France, there has also been uncertainty around. NFF reports that everyone can join, which means Birger Meling (Nimes) and Ruben Gabrielsen (Toulouse) are on the Solbakken team.
Norway will face Gibraltar, Turkey and Montenegro in their first three matches in the World Cup qualifiers. The matches against Gibraltar and Montenegro are away matches in the respective countries that Norway will face. Turkey’s match is actually a home match, but it has been moved to Malaga as the Norwegian authorities do not grant exceptions to the quarantine rules for top athletes.
Haaland showed on Saturday afternoon that he is in good shape: against Cologne he scored two goals. See both here:
