Forostar
Ancient Mariner
Hm who knows. We'll see...
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Qatar politics and tprotests aside, today's match against Turkey is the first true test for Ståle Solbakken as head coach of the Norwegian team. Turkey have been our downfall in qualifiers before.
Now we have good quality up front but I'm more uncertain about our defense. This has not usually been the case with the Norwegian national team, our best teams the last 20 years have often been solid at the back and lacking in attack. As you know, we haven't been good at both since the 90s ...
Having a striker who is wanted by all the big clubs in Europe and an attacking midfielder who makes headlines in the Premiership, that's not something we're used to.
Now we have good quality up front but I'm more uncertain about our defense. This has not usually been the case with the Norwegian national team, our best teams the last 20 years have often been solid at the back and lacking in attack. As you know, we haven't been good at both since the 90s ...
Having a striker who is wanted by all the big clubs in Europe and an attacking midfielder who makes headlines in the Premiership, that's not something we're used to.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Nothing to fear. Our defense is (not so great)er.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
I'll sum up this game with ten minutes left.
Norway asleep from the start, 0-1 after four minutes.
Turkey then produce nothing for a while, Norway with one goal (correctly) disallowed for offside, one shot off the post, then Turkey score from a corner and 0-2.
2nd half. Norway with another disallowed goal, again correctly, then Turkey score another. This time a great shot from outside the box, so kudos for that, but again ... that was about their 4th decent scoring chance.
And with ten minutes to go, we're one man down. Looking forward to Tuesday when we play someone at our own level.
Ødegaard invisible today. Haaland the same. But of course, hard to shine as a striker when the rest of the team doesn't show up.
Norway asleep from the start, 0-1 after four minutes.
Turkey then produce nothing for a while, Norway with one goal (correctly) disallowed for offside, one shot off the post, then Turkey score from a corner and 0-2.
2nd half. Norway with another disallowed goal, again correctly, then Turkey score another. This time a great shot from outside the box, so kudos for that, but again ... that was about their 4th decent scoring chance.
And with ten minutes to go, we're one man down. Looking forward to Tuesday when we play someone at our own level.
Ødegaard invisible today. Haaland the same. But of course, hard to shine as a striker when the rest of the team doesn't show up.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
We won. 2 goals is not very satisfying against Latvia (Letland as we call them), we had several other chances (two on the crossbar). But they defended pretty ok and had also one ball on our post. In the end we can be happy to have a victory after the bad start in Turkey.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
opened the first page of this thread by accident and found a post from my original account from 16 years ago!
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
I did not watch Ireland. That said, Ireland are shit. Losing to Luxembourg is surely the worst result in quite the while.
Still, Ireland being Ireland, we will probably beat Portugal away and draw with Azerbaijan at home.
Still, Ireland being Ireland, we will probably beat Portugal away and draw with Azerbaijan at home.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Ireland's worst ever?
It's up there. I think drawing with Lichtenstein in the 90's is probably worse, since we had a better team then and Lichtenstein were way worse then than the minnows of today. The bad thing was we didn't play bad as such, we just don't have good players. The two best players on the pitch were from Luxembourg. Our young players coming through are all too young at the moment, and the established players are all finished, and we're lacking in players playing first team club football at the highest level.
Dammit.
I mean, yeah, he did have a racist mishap last year but AFTV wasn't the same without him.
AFTV or Arsenal Fan TV is one of the most popular fan channels for football clubs and he was very well known.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
YES: Latvia made a draw in Turkey! Yey.
Congrats @Dr. Eddies Wingman Norway won!
We won too at Gilbraltar. 0-1 at halftime. 0-7 at the end. the 3rd, 4th and 5th goal were within 200 seconds.
We had about 40 to 50 chances though, so in that light 7 is not much.
Unfortunately Blind was injured severely (to be continued), had to leave the field on a stretcher. Gilbraltar's goalkeeper was very good. He also had to leave the field with a hamstring injury.
1. Turkije 3- 7 (10- 5)
2. Nederland 3- 6 (11- 4)
3. Montenegro 3- 6 ( 6- 3)
4. Noorwegen 3- 6 ( 4- 3)
5. Letland 3- 1 ( 4- 7)
6. Gibraltar 3- 0 ( 1-14)
Congrats @Dr. Eddies Wingman Norway won!
We won too at Gilbraltar. 0-1 at halftime. 0-7 at the end. the 3rd, 4th and 5th goal were within 200 seconds.
We had about 40 to 50 chances though, so in that light 7 is not much.
Unfortunately Blind was injured severely (to be continued), had to leave the field on a stretcher. Gilbraltar's goalkeeper was very good. He also had to leave the field with a hamstring injury.
1. Turkije 3- 7 (10- 5)
2. Nederland 3- 6 (11- 4)
3. Montenegro 3- 6 ( 6- 3)
4. Noorwegen 3- 6 ( 4- 3)
5. Letland 3- 1 ( 4- 7)
6. Gibraltar 3- 0 ( 1-14)
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Despite the fact we beat Montenegro I'd say the performance wasn't much better than against Turkey. That was bad, today was a little better against a much weaker team. A welcome surprise by Latvia though, hooray.