The fiasco was complete when Austria went on to make it 5-1 after 70 minutes. After a relatively evenly played first half, Norway was thoroughly outplayed in the second half. – One of the worst international matches in years and days. Austria pisses off Norway, said TV 2’s football expert, Jesper Mathisen. – Total collapse of Norway. It is embarrassing, said news’s football expert, Kristoffer Løkberg. Starting with a defensive blunder, Erling Braut Haaland broke Jørgen Juve’s scoring record for the Norwegian national team in Thursday’s game against Slovenia. On Sunday, it only took five minutes before he got a big chance. Norway’s captain had a shot from 15 metres, but had to see that the ball hit the post and went out. STOLPE: Haaland was close to scoring after five minutes, but did not have the margins on his side. Photo: GEPA PICTURES Two minutes later, Norway lost the ball after a long pass from Andreas Hanche-Olsen. Austria advanced quickly and from 16 meters Marko Arnautovic pounded the ball into the goal, via the crossbar. – Solbakken must be flying mad down on the touchline. It was supposed to be a direct Norway from the start, and then there are those who play straight into the gap on the Austrian team, said TV 2’s football expert Jesper Mathisen, and called the loss of the ball naive and unnecessary. – We can’t control luck and bad luck, but: Incredibly lousy selection and passing by Hanche-Olsen, wrote football expert Lars Tjærnås on X. – Norway is severely punished for sloppiness in its own passing game. Typically enough, where Haaland’s chance goes wide, Marko Arnautovic hits the crossbar and down, said news’s football expert Kristoffer Løkberg. PERLE: Marko Arnautovic scored the first goal of the game. Photo: NTB Sørloth hit back After the scores, it was Austria who mostly had the best chances. The Norwegian team struggled several times to stand up to the recovery power of Austria, which also seemed to master the challenging track conditions in Linz better than Norway. On the sidelines, TV 2’s reporter Eirik Nesset Hjelvik reported that Solbakken was frustrated with the defensive play and made constant messages. Six minutes before the break, however, the equalizer came. Julian Ryerson swung a free kick into Austria’s penalty area. In front of the goal, Alexander Sørloth stood almost sensationally alone and easily headed in 1-1. – Norway finally scored on a set piece again. Clearly a rehearsed move where Thorsby blocked the room and allowed Sørloth to get free, it is important that Ryerson hits the room it is meant to hit, said Løkberg. EQUALIZATION: Alexander Sørloth’s scoring seems to be the only bright spot for Norway. Photo: NTB The score was Sørloth’s 20th for the national team, but it did not seem to calm Solbakken down on the sidelines that much. According to TV 2 reporter Hjelvik came with a clear message to centre-back Hanche-Olsen that “he had to wake up”. There were still no more goals in the first break, and thus the score was 1-1 at the break. Norwegian nightmare quarter In the second half, it gradually became a Norwegian nightmare. It started two minutes into the half, when Hanche-Olsen plunged into the grass in an attempt to get the ball away. The ball went in to Norway’s goalkeeper, Ørjan Håskjold Nyland, but Hanche-Olsen simultaneously fouled Christoph Baumgartner. – He simply panics there, Norway and Andreas Hanche-Olsen. It was he who messed up before 1–0 and now he is again acting clumsily and with complete panic, said Mathisen. – So incredibly clumsy. That’s the kind of penalty kicks that are made in Andeby against Gåseby, Tjærnås wrote on X. Marko Arnautovic was safe from the penalty mark and increased to 2–1. And so it continued. Philipp Lienhart headed in 3–1 after a corner kick, before Stefan Posch headed in 4–1 after 62 minutes. – Now it’s the cat’s game with the mouse, said Mathisen. Because it didn’t stop there. Michael Gregoritsch headed in 5-1 20 minutes before the end and made the humiliation complete. Close again in the National League Norway led their group in the National League before Sunday’s games, after they had taken seven points from three games. Earlier on Sunday, Slovenia won 1–0 away to Kazakhstan, which meant that they also stood with seven points before the match between Austria and Norway kicked off. Now Austria also looks set to go up to seven points, which means that the group is wide open again. With a win in their group in the National League, Norway will have a great chance of reaching a replay in the World Cup qualification, should they not qualify directly. The results in the autumn’s matches will also affect Norway’s place in the Fifa rankings, which further determine whether Norway will be seeded at level two or three in the World Cup qualification. It is expected that the groups in the WC qualification will be drawn towards the end of the year. Published 13.10.2024, at 22.19 Updated 13.10.2024, at 22.27
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