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- Norge – Serbia 1–2 (0–0) ey
LARS LAGERBÄCK BLE brought in to lead Norway to the playoffs. It didn’t work. When the playoffs were between Norway and the European Championship, he became the fourth coach of the Norwegian national team to fail.
Anno domini 2020 is still everything as before.
When it was lowered 0-6 in playoff games, first to 1-6 against Serbia and then 2-6 until the November final, it was 0-7.
COACHES OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL TEAM OF NORWAY He has experience and unshakable ideas of how he wants it, and since March 2017 he has brainwashed the Norwegian team with the philosophy he has always sworn to. Tonight, when it was all about winning, she was recovered for the exam.
The exam, if we had beaten Serbia, I would follow it in a month.
Unfortunately, we were nowhere near anything.
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THE DEFEAT AGAINST AUSTRIAWhen the warning lights actually started to go off, Lagerbäck explained it was a mental breakdown, and took the blame for not having prepared the players better. The explanation this time can be as you please.
Tactically, mentally, skill-wise or collectively, it doesn’t really matter.
The fact is, Norway is not good enough.
ASK NOW, BECAUSE The World Cup is a much bigger and more difficult project than the European Championship, it is if it makes any sense for Lars Lagerbäck to continue with what does not work beyond 2020. Based on what we saw against Serbia, my immediate response is not.
The contract that he extended ten months ago applies until the next qualifying, alternatively until after the playoffs in Qatar.
Believing in the 2022 World Cup when we don’t make it to the European Championship through the lifeline of the League of Nations is more like believing in Santa Claus.
THE QUALIFICATION FOR THE WORLD CUP AS starting in March 2021, therefore, it should be used as an optimal setting to register the team that will lead Norway to the 2024 European Championship. That opportunity should be given to the next coach of the Norwegian national team.
The obvious name will be, as usual, Ståle Solbakken.
By the time we get to Christmas, it will be four years since he last said no.
IT IS EASY to explain Norway’s fourth playoff loss in four attempts since we were last in the playoffs, but it really doesn’t make sense. Bad football is bad football every day. It is only the consequences that matter.
Norway is not going to Euro 2021.
The pain continues.
Norway’s European Championship dream shattered
IN THE NIGHTS LIKE This one, with 20 years of defeat and a playoff final in the pot, it is absolutely crucial that the game is played, not the occasion. Norway did not do that. Everything that was explained and talked about beforehand was left in the closet.
When the game ended, Norway was not at the station.
Instead of dominating, we let ourselves be dominated.
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR in the preparations was stress and pressure management. If you handle the situation and play good football, it means power in 90 minutes. Norway failed.
In a match where a lot was about staying calm, using the ball and taking the match to Serbia, nobody could do anything.
When players like Erling Braut Haaland, Aleksander Sørloth and Martin Ødegaard don’t get more, there is something fundamentally wrong with the team.
WE HAVE SEEN than before, there have been evenings in which this team has lost it completely. 1-2 for Serbia joins the ranks. Also tonight, when it mattered most, Norway fell into the trap.
It does not bode well for the continuation of the League of Nations.
Considering the ordinary World Cup qualifier coming in 2021, a group game that is much more difficult than what we did not drive towards the European Championship, stretches the legs of most of the hope, faith and the enthusiasm.
ONLY THE THOUGHT Another play-off without Norway, especially now that two potential home games made the opportunity bigger and better than in 2003, 2005 and 2015, is unbearable. If Norway had made it to the top, we could have looked forward to the playoff final in Ullevaal on November 12.
The next realistic playoff opportunity we have now is our first at the 2024 European Championship.
I KNOW It is a World Cup in Qatar towards the end of 2022, that we have only played two of the four games in the Nations League, and that there will be a qualifier for the World Cup where all teams, as always, start from scratch. Well, there have probably been bigger surprises in football, remember Norway in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup.
But here I am sitting now, in the dark after a game that was even darker considering the near future of Norwegian team football, it is not possible to evoke those memories.
In the 90’s we had an attacking game that was based on a world-class defensive game.
Today we have world-class attacking players in a team with a shaky defense.
Who above all fights, has no skills, or simply does not dare to use the ball.
Iron what doesn’t fit.
THAT’S THE REASON for Norway not to go to the European Championship. It doesn’t matter if the forwards come from the Bundesliga and the Premier League, when a defender trains with Lillestrøm, and the midfielders, the best Norwegian football to date, play in leagues ranked in the 20s in the international hierarchy.
It doesn’t help how good you are at the top when the defense plays with balls in your pants.
When the team as such is unable to use the ball, the best word that comes to mind is praised.
NORWAY GET CHEAP CHEAP away tonight. Serbia was much better. After three and a half years with Lagerbäck, we really haven’t gone a step further.
Therefore, it is time to rethink.
