– I am moved, says Reistad to Viaplay just minutes after the incredible drama in the WC semi-final against Denmark. But even when the match was over, the excruciating tension was not over. – Jesper Jensen wants there to be a video check, commented news commentator Patrick Sten Rowlands when the match was actually over. The judges were unsure. Henny Reistad had decided the WC semi-final against Denmark with less than a second left in the thriller. But the referees were in doubt as to whether she actually managed to score before time ran out in the 2nd extra period. – They must check whether the ball is in. The Norwegian girls stand and celebrate, but it’s not over, Rowlands said while the referees VAR-checked Reistad’s score. Then they went out on the floor and gave signs. – Scoring! Norway is in the WC final. You get drama even after the clock has run out and the match is over, says Rowlands. And then the jubilation for Norway was over the top. The big hero of the game still felt safe when the VAR check kept Norway on its toes. – Yes, we realized that it was such a VAR check, but I was quite sure that it was inside, says Reistad to news. Henny Reistad was absolutely central to Norway. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB According to Viaplay commentator Daniel Höglund, the official figure was that there were 0.2 seconds left in the match when the ball hit the net. – I almost don’t think so really. It was an incredibly tough fight. I’m very lazy now. We’ve been in the shit for a very long time, really from the start. So we don’t give ourselves a good starting point, but we at least get to see what lives in that team here, says Reistad to Viaplay. Because this was the evening when the drama never stopped delivering in the hall in Herning. – It was one for the history books, says TV 3 commentator Daniel Höglund after it was all decided. Stine Skogrand tells news that she herself did not realize that the referees were in the process of VAR-checking Reistad’s decisive score. – I just found out over here. We can’t take that with us, no. – If he had ruled a non-goal then? – It would have been hard to have to play extra time again, says Skogrand Stine Bredal Oftedal celebrates scoring during the semi-final against Denmark. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB Norwegian race Large parts of the match were a Norwegian race to fight back from the terrible start of the match. And Reistad was enormous when the match was to be decided. – She is completely unstoppable. Absolutely unstoppable, Kenneth Gabrielsen exclaimed about Henny Reistad after her 11th goal when Norway took the lead in the 1st extra period. And in the end it was the Danes who had to equalize the Norwegian lead. But then suddenly the bells in the hall went on strike. – Now it’s a failure again. Now that’s silly. It is a clock that puts an end to everything, says news commentator Patrick Sten Rowlands. And when the clocks started again, the Danes managed to equalize with half a minute left. But in the end, the clock was still on Norway’s side. The Danes had a lot to cheer about in the first half. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB But what a drama this match turned out to be. There was only one minute left in the second half when Sanna Solberg-Isaksen sent Norway into the lead for the first time in the WC semi-final. Then the Danes had first led the game for over 57 minutes. – We are digging deep in the toolbox to find the right elements against Denmark. They play a good game and at times they play us very badly, says Stine Skogrand to news. But even when Norway was finally in the lead in normal time, the drama was far from over. With only seconds left, Denmark were awarded a penalty. And with only four seconds left in the game, Kristian Joergensen put the seven-meter into the goal. Thus the match went to extra time, after what had developed into a Norwegian race to grab a Danish five-goal lead halfway through the match. For a long time there was little indication that this was going to be a thriller. Turned the game around – Perhaps the worst half I have seen from Norway in a long, long time was the verdict from TV 3 expert Ole Erevik when Norway had to fight back to reach the WC final. The verdict was brutal among the experts. Not only were the Norwegian team down by five goals at the break. The Norwegian defensive game had failed completely. At the same time, the Norwegian profiles had also wasted a number of great chances. – We still have faith in this, said national team assistant Tonje Larsen on his way out onto the pitch after the break. Bredal Oftedal despairs early in the match. Photo: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP And something clearly happened during the break. Because suddenly Norway was on the sheet music again after the break. – We like what we see here now, this is a completely different Norwegian team, said news’s expert Kenneth Gabrielsen at the beginning of the second half. And this was not going to be a fight for the faint of heart. – We are the ones with the momentum here, said national team coach Thorir Hergeirsson in time-out barely fifteen minutes before the end. Norway was about to get behind the Danes again. Shock start But from the start, the Danes gave Norway a shock start. After six and a half minutes of play, it was 5-1 to the home team. – It is a Danish team that is playing Norway out of the hall at the moment, said TV 3 commentator Daniel Höglund after the heavy Norwegian start in which the Norwegian defensive game fell apart. History repeated itself from the European Championship final last year when the Danes were up to a five-goal lead. Again it looked bleak for Norway. The stars, too, showed new wrinkles of worry with national team coach Thorir Hergeirsson on the sidelines. Then there was little that reminded of the team that outclassed the Netherlands in the quarter-finals earlier this week. And it looked bleak for Norway when the Danes were able to go into a seven-goal lead three minutes before the end of the first half. But then the Danes missed. – This could be the moment, exclaimed news’s commentator Patrick Sten Rowlands after the penalty save. And the save and the subsequent post shot were particularly important for Norway. And the match changed character after this.
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