– Good Chances – VG

- Good Chances - VG
A life of hope: Christian Thorstedt and the Norway national team are delighted with a result that keeps Norway’s World Cup hope alive.

Istanbul/Oslo (VG) (Turkey-Norway 1-1) If Norway does the job at home against Montenegro and Latvia, the group final will likely be clean against the Netherlands in Rotterdam.

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In this case, it will be decided whether Norway will participate directly in the Qatar World Cup by the end of 2022, or in the worst case, lose the opportunity altogether. The group winner gets a direct ticket to Doha, and the group runner must go through a tough replay to earn a place in the World Cup.

But if Norway loses to the Netherlands and Turkey wins the remaining matches (against Latvia, Montenegro and Gibraltar), Norway will be third and therefore out of the fight for the World Cup – provided the Netherlands also wins their matches against Gibraltar and Gibraltar. the black Mountain.

The opportunity certainly exists, there are good opportunities here. You see that the team is working despite all the deadlines. They are players who are in good shape and have a lot of confidence. The Netherlands is unaffected, and Norway vs. Holland will always be an outsider… Beating Nyantfra will always be great, former national team player and current Vsport expert Ron Bratseth told VG about Norway’s chances of winning the group. Bratsith was present when Norway drew 0-0 in the World Cup qualifiers in Rotterdam in 1993, after dozens of great Dutch chances.

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Status: Norway is behind the Netherlands and may count on the win in Rotterdam to win the group. Norway is also supposed to beat Latvia and Montenegro at home in the matches beforehand, as long as the Netherlands does not score points.

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Twelve teams – three places

In March of next year, 12 teams make up the aforementioned group: the 10 runners-up of the European qualifying group – as well as the UEFA Nations League, which was played in the fall of last year, will make their way to the World Cup. playoffs.

Norway got Not This additional card is in the qualifiers and must therefore be number two to reach these qualifiers. Championship-winning nations such as Switzerland, Sweden, Russia and the Czech Republic, among others, are likely to wait here.

who are they twelve There is only room for difference three I VM.

Table Two: These are the ten groups after matches 8.10. Those marked in green are the top six runners-up, who will be seeded when the final begins next spring.

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Open

Ståle Solbakken was very pleased with his team’s performance against Turkey, but it shows how open the group is.

– It’s very difficult. If we win the last three games, that’s pretty good, but we can also be number three as now, says Solbakken on how to go forward.

Hope lives on, of course, it’s very simple, we have to win the rest of the games to get first place, says interim striker – and Norway’s goal scorer – Christian Thorstedt.

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For his part, Morten James Pedersen, a former winger for the national team, believes that coming to the Netherlands and playing the final of the group in itself is not normal.

– You don’t just go and get points against Montenegro, and if you show the same position (like against Turkey) in that match, it could be the group final of your dreams. It’s open, and Norway could be stronger when it regains more strings to play on, says Jamesen and points out the absence of Erling Braut Haaland and the rest of the “11th injury” who didn’t play against Turkey.

But alas – it could have looked better:

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