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– I get to play 90 minutes and I think I do a good game. I’ll take it away and work hard to be even better equipped for 90 minutes. “I have to take that with me, and then we’ll get the ball into goal,” Alexander Sørloth tells Viasat after his first game from the start with RB Leipzig.
It came after what can be described as a very turbulent week for the Norwegian national team forward.
And the week didn’t improve when Jhon Córdoba gave Hertha Berlin the lead after nine minutes of play.
However, just two minutes later, Sørloth was the penultimate Leipzig player to have the ball when Dayot Upamecano tied it 1-1. Sørloth never had great opportunities in the first place, and in the Viasat study, Rune Bratseth and Jan Åge Fjørtoft delivered the following verdict:
– I think he is doing very well, he constantly shows that he is capable of handling the ball and has a good eye for his teammates. But there are few chances to score, which would have been good for him to arrive as early as possible in his Leipzig career, Bratseth said.
CLEAR SPEECH: Jan Åge Fjørtoft.
Photograph: Svein Ove Ekornesvåg / NTB
– Do you seem impressed? No way. He has been there and played football today, said Fjørtoft.
Crossbar strike
In the second half, Leipzig got slightly better working conditions from the start. Deyovaisio Zeefuik entered the break for Hertha, and less than five minutes later he was sent to the locker room after two yellow cards.
Still, Marcel Sabitzer took a penalty to give Leipzig 2-1 after 77 minutes of play.
After 89 minutes, Sørloth sent a free kick high over the area. The Trøndelag man came nowhere close to scoring, and there he is scoreless after his first four Bundesliga games with Leipzig.
In return, Sørloth can call himself the league leader, as Leipzig still holds Bayern Munich one point behind.
– Take it internally
– I think I make a good effort, I push as I should and then it is too much almost in front of the goal. I miss a hundred percent real chance that you can set the goal. But my teammates are looking for me, and there is still work to be done, and it should be, sums up Sørloth.
– I feel very good and I do not want to comment beyond that. Like I said, we take it internally, says Sørloth.
From the Oslo studio, Jan Åge Fjørtoft continues with the following questions:
– Does that mean that when we meet at Old Trafford, you have taken it internally and Alexander Sørloth is a player of the Norwegian team that is taking us back to a World Cup?
– I do not comment on anything, as I said, we take it internally. I felt like I left the case dead in my press release, and there we are now, Sørloth responds.
The turbulent week
It was on Wednesday that he exploded around Alexander Sørloth, when VG revealed details of an argument between him and national team coach Lars Lagerbäck in an evaluation meeting after the defeat in qualifying for the European Championship against Serbia. Finally, Lagerbäck’s assistant, Per Joar Hansen, is said to have given Sørloth the following message: “One more word, then it’s clear!”
On Thursday, the Norwegian Football Association came with a press release, in which Lars Lagerbäck said:
“I tolerate disagreements on professional soccer issues. Alexander, however, brought up several accusations that did not concern how we play soccer, but which continued to say that Per Joar Hansen and I were incompetent as coaches both in terms of management like football “.
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“After 30 years in international football, I have never experienced players crossing the line in this way.”
But Lagerbäck admitted at the same time that he had brought the next sting to Sørloth, referring to a great opportunity abused by the forward in a European Championship qualifier against Cyprus: “You were not so arrogant two years ago in Cyprus.”
At the bottom of the press release, it was also said that Alexander Sørloth himself did not want to comment further on the case.
Argument in the media
But on the same day, Sørloth, through his agent Morten Wivestad, responded with the following statement through NTB.
“I have never said that anyone in the coaching staff is incompetent. Never. After they asked us players to give their opinion, I said that I was very critical of the way we prepared for the game against Serbia. Also the tactical evaluations that were made on the way. “
An NFF later responded with a new press release, emphasizing that the union stands up for its side of the case.
And this is just the short version of the charge for what Saturday afternoon we should see as Alexander Sørloth’s first Bundesliga match to start with RB Leipzig.
Clear message from Bratseth and Fjørtoft
The conflict was also a topic in Viasat’s study before the game, where two of the most prominent profiles of Norway’s national team throughout time came up with clear advice.
– Now it is about the future of the Norwegian national football team, so now we just have to stop this nonsense, because we can no longer communicate in the newspapers, Jan Åge Fjørtoft said.
CLEAR SPEECH: Rune Bratseth.
Photography: Svein Ove Ekornesvåg / Svein Ove Ekornesvåg
Both he and Rune Bratseth are aware that the conflict must be resolved as quickly as possible.
– In my opinion, the only solution, and it should happen as soon as possible, is for the interested parties to sit down and talk to each other. Write as little as possible. Talk together, agree, Bratseth said, referring to Nils Arne Eggen sitting on the best solution.
– I read that Nils Arne Eggen has said that resolved conflicts are like a new love, I have heard it a thousand times, but he is right. In fact, I think it’s possible that when they’ve had such a sweep and found out, it can give them some boost and energy, and that’s to be expected, Bratseth said.
