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LARS LAGERBÄCK ER a popular man in the Ullevaal stadium and he will not be fired even if the European Championship goal was not reached, the Nations League group was not won and Norway is still not above 44 in the FIFA rankings. If a manager change is going to be an issue when 2020 is evaluated, the Swede will likely have to open the door himself.
We are not so demanding in Norway, it is mainly in the defined objectives of the action plans that the NFF shows clarity.
If they are not done, it does not matter.
Then we try again.
He does not care
DA ÅGE HAREIDE (67) did not get an extension of his participation in Denmark, he had the best statistics in the history of the Danish national team. When COVID-19 took over the world, he had 34 games (!) In a row without losing.
Åge Hareide led Denmark to WC 2018, and until the European Championship play-offs, the pandemic has been postponed.
Still, he was shattered.
IT WAS OF COURSE It is not the lack of achievements that caused the Danish Federation (DBU) to get rid of Åge Hareide. That was the reason.
The work he had done was visible to all.
The knockout stages of the World Cup, where Denmark led World Cup finalist Croatia to the penalty spot, could have gone both ways.
The Danish football coach of the year nominations for 2018 and 2019, by contrast, were only one way.
Åge Hareides.
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HOWEVER, HE GOT IT He did not extend his contract beyond the summer of 2020. When the opportunity to sign Kasper Hjulmand (48) arose, the Danes turned around and took a chance.
DBU weighed two new years with Hareide against a longer contract with a 19-year younger compatriot.
Kasper Hjulmand, who had long been a name in the Danish national team coaching debate, was preferred.
LAST SATURDAY, THEN Ståle Solbakken (52) was fired in Copenhagen, a similar opportunity arose for Norwegian football. Solbakken, who has said no to Norway twice before, has been the NFF’s first choice since 2012.
He was the one who was going to get the job that Per-Mathias Høgmo eventually got, and he was the one wanted when 20-year-old Lars Lagerbäck said yes in 2017.
Ståle Solbakken is available now.
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Forget it, Steel!
LARS LAGERBÄCK HAS I haven’t done a bad job with Norway. But he has not delivered what he came looking for either. The team hasn’t taken the next big enough step. There are many things that are not true.
That it has to do with the material of the player is quite obvious, it is too uneven in terms of quality.
But it can also have something to do with the style of play, the formation, the selection of players and the priorities.
ALL PROFESSIONALS ARE critical of Norway’s defensive play. It is a paradox. It is in defensive play that Lars Lagerbäck has built his entire career. But in Norway he does not make it possible, he speaks of mental failure as a reason for a young team with a lack of experience, and that is why he likes to take responsibility.
I don’t think it’s that simple.
I don’t think it’s just in my head.
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EIGHT MIDDLE PLUGS HAVE He has played for Norway in 34 games with Lars Lagerbäck. Another three have passed without time in the field.
He says one) that we have what we have, and two) that the problem is persistent.
There is also no reason to believe, as was written after the 1-0 win on Wednesday night, that competitive midfielders will suddenly start falling from the trees.
So what does he do lifetime? What do we do when the defense does not hold up and when what we have is what we have? I asked Brede Hangeland that question during the break in Ullevaal on Wednesday evening, and the answer, precisely because the situation is as it is, was this:
– We must protect our midfielders.
THE WAY TO DO it is, among other things, a radical change in training. There is no Lars Lagerbäck. He has 4-4-2 to the leg. I don’t think the 72-year-old will get a revelation based on Norway’s shortcomings.
In the same way that it is difficult to believe in a group victory in the Nations League, and even more difficult to believe in the first two in the next World Cup qualifiers.
I don’t want to be a joy killer, but that’s where we are.
Perhaps the idea of giving the next coach of the Norwegian national team the opportunity to start the Euro 2024 project with the next qualification for the World Cup is not so stupid after all.
