– What can you say. Bad, sums up a frustrated Caroline Graham Hansen to news. She has just come off the field after Norway’s heavy World Cup opening loss against host nation New Zealand. The Barcelona player seems very upset and is short in his answers. – We can’t get anything done. Then there will be a loss. DESPAIRS: Caroline Graham Hansen after the WC opening. Photo: Abbie Parr / AP Norway was considered by many to be big favorites before the match, but it resulted in a 0-1 loss. This means that Hege Riise’s women have the worst possible start to the championship. – It’s sport, sport. It is brutal, continues Graham Hansen. – How is this for you personally? – It’s crazy. We go from championship to championship and underperform. It’s frustrating. Raste Norway’s other big star, Ada Hegerberg, was naturally also very disappointed after the match. When the referee had blown the match off, the Lyon star could be seen clearly frustrated, waving his hands and giving clear messages to his teammates. – I am very disappointed, and we all have to be. It’s a bad match from our side, and we don’t get into it and we can talk as much as we want, but we have to get up to the level we want to be, she says to news. She summarizes: DAMNED: Hegerberg was anything but happy after the game. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB – We are at half distance in everything we do, and will not have any relationships going forward. We don’t get any good crosses or … We have some pretty good chances if we can score, but overall we are below par throughout the match and never manage to create an established attack that puts enough pressure on them, which I think we had good opportunities to do. This was New Zealand’s first World Cup victory at the first attempt. The only goal of the match straight after the break when Hannah Wilkinson was able to roll the ball into the goal from close range. – Absolutely damnable, says Norway’s last defender Aurora Mikalsen to news. – How? – It’s something you’ve been looking forward to for so long, and then we get caught up in the event. They beat us in duels and get the match where they want. At the same time, I think we are dangerous when we establish the game higher up the pitch. That they take us in one five meters where there will be a domino effect. It’s ten seconds that destroys a lot for us, says Mikalsen. – Give me a day or two and I can give you a much better answer. Right now there is only great frustration, she ends the interview with. – Wrong to stand here National team manager Hege Riise says this to news after the match: TAKES RESPONSIBILITY: – I will thoroughly evaluate what we could have done differently and changes, says the national team manager. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB – It was a very frustrating game for us on the bench and for the players out there. We don’t deliver what we feel we can, and that may be due to several things. But they were fired up, they won first balls and second balls, and we became hesitant and never get any rhythm at all – How are you now? – It sucks to stand here now and feel that we didn’t come close to what we feel we can do. That’s the picture of the match, we have to deal with that too, we didn’t do that.
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