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ULLEVAAL (Dagbladet): Lars Lagerbäck didn’t believe what he saw against Austria. Us neither. So bad was the first hour.
When Norway was about to take new steps, the team hit a sinkhole and found a new bottom.
After three years of structural and defensive brainwashing, it was, if possible, even more shocking than 0-6 for Germany.
HOW THE HELL Could be like this? What happened when Norway built on the positive in 2019. Lars Lagerbäck doesn’t have a convincing answer, but says he thinks it was crazy.
That Norway overestimated itself on the basis of good experiences.
That we thought we were better than we are.
The best national team in the world made Norway look like the worst in the world
DA NORGE BLE Completed by Germany in 2017, the team had five games under Lars Lagerbäck. We didn’t have high expectations. At least we didn’t have confidence in ourselves. He was the reigning world champion against a team with shaky legs, a team that has not been in the playoffs since 2000.
Still, the recession was like a slap in the face.
FRIDAY WE ARE expectantly and went to Ullevaal believing that Norway had taken the steps Lars Lagerbäck talks about, and that several of the results could indicate this.
My theory is the opposite, that we have been blind to what has been good.
one) We have celebrated victories in training matches against Australia (H), Albania (B), Iceland (H) and Panama (B), not to mention the qualifiers we have won against, of course, as San Marino (209 in the ranking of FIFA), Malta. (184) and the Faroe Islands (110) and Cyprus (95).
two) We have displaced the misery against Northern Ireland (B), Germany (B), the training matches against Macedonia (B) and Slovakia (B), the actual content of the match against Spain (B), that we fell asleep against Bulgaria ( B), not to mention the collapses against Sweden (H) and Romania (H), as well as the near miss against the Faroe Islands in Torshavn.
There is no quick fix for the Norwegian soccer team
The consequence of that, the way we have chosen to evaluate 21 of the 29 matches that we had played before Austria, where my claim would be that we have deluded ourselves into believing that we are better than the content of the matches suggests, Made this Friday night so brutal .
Therefore, Oslo September 4, 2020 is much worse for Norwegian national team football than Stuttgart September 4, 2017.
Reality checks can be painful.
THAT MAKES With Norway heading into the first of possibly two games out of all games this fall, the playoff game against Serbia at Ullevaal or neutral ground, it’s impossible to tell. After 0-6 against Germany, we were very lucky to have San Marino as an opponent to take revenge (8-0).
This time we go to the place where the first sinkhole after Per-Mathias Høgmo opened, to Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Thank you Lord for the empty stands!
LARS LAGERBÄCK FOLLOWS of course, the manuscript of the instruction of the position of a national coach and says that he thinks it will not affect anything. That is their job. At the same time, he takes the blame for failing to equip players against the mental danger of overestimating himself. But after sleeping and re-watching the first 66 minutes against Austria, it is difficult to put two lines under that prediction.
Norway was not just bad on Friday night, we are chaotically weak.
As if 291 days without football from the national team had erased everything that Lars Lagerbäck has manipulated and repeated.
And Serbia, 29th in the FIFA rankings, has ball players with skills that can bother us as much as Austria (26).
If there is one thing Serbs really can and do like, it is to roll the ball and control football matches.
IF SOMETHING IS the clarity in a well structured and balanced team that has given Lars Lagerbäck’s Norway the results the team is pushing for. We haven’t been very good even though the team has at times shown potential for something that could be. If you look at the table of the last qualifier for the European Championship, it is like the previous one.
But we have improved since 2016, or to be precise, we thought we were better until Austria came along and raised the alarm.
Now we travel to Belfast with the same bad feeling we had when we left there three and a half years ago.
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