24 July 2023 at 13:57 12-hour goal drought for Hegerberg Ada Hegerberg has played over twelve hours in four different EC and WC finals since she last scored. It doesn’t matter if only the team wins, says Norway’s big star. – I put a lot of pressure on myself to perform for Norway. It is very important to me personally. “All I want is to be successful with this team and I’m preparing to be the best I can be to serve the team,” she said at Monday’s press conference. That was the beginning of her response to an AP reporter’s question about whether she feels pressure because it’s been eight years since she scored in a playoff game. It was a double goal against the Ivory Coast in the last group match of the WC 2015 in Canada. Hegerberg has been one of the world’s best strikers for a decade, and she has 43 goals in 77 international matches for Norway, but after she helped the national team to the European Championship final in 2013 (as an 18-year-old) and to the round of 16 in the World Cup the following year, her experiences in the championship have been less pleasant. In eight playoff games in a row, she has gone off the field without scoring, and Norway has lost seven of those games: * World Cup 2015: England 1-2 * European Championship 2017: Netherlands 0-1, Belgium 0-2, Denmark 0-1 * European Championship 2022: Northern Ireland 4-1, England 0-8, Austria 0-1 * World Cup 2023: New Zealand 0-1 In total, she has played 733 minutes plus additional time in playoffs since she last scored, in the 62nd minute against Ivory Coast in Moncton on June 15, 2015. Hegerberg took a break from national team play for almost five years after the 2017 European Championship playoffs, but due to the pandemic, she missed only one playoff game in that time: the World Cup in France in 2019, where Norway reached the quarterfinals. She made a convincing comeback with a hat-trick against Kosovo in World Cup qualifying last April, but has scored just two more goals in the ten internationals she has played since then. (NTB/news)
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