The Norwegian national team and their supervisors had to go into quarantine because of a positive corona test. A B-Elf will play against Austria – the chance for a Union Berlin defender.
After the short-term cancellation of the Nations League game against Romania, Norway wants to travel to Austria for the next match with an emergency team without noble striker Erling Haaland. Instead of the top players around Haaland and the other Bundesliga kickers Rune Jarstein (Hertha BSC) and Alexander Sörloth (RB Leipzig), a substitute squad consisting of 18 players with Union Berlin defender Julian Ryerson is sent to the Alpine republic so that the game can be played despite Corona problems can be.
The top eleven of the Norwegians, along with the supervisory staff, had to go into quarantine according to the requirements of the Norwegian health authorities after a positive corona test with ex-Braunschweig’s Omar Elabdellaoui. The current squad against Austria is supervised by U21 coach Leif Gunnar Smerud, who presented the squad on Monday.
Players should be accommodated in an airport hotel
All now nominated players with the exception of the former Fürth Veton Berisha, who has already recovered from a coronavirus infection, are playing abroad.
The plan is for all of these players to travel to Norway and be billeted in an airport hotel there and tested for the virus before they leave together on a charter flight to Vienna on Tuesday. The last Nations League match against Austria will take place there on Wednesday (8.45 p.m., in the live ticker at t-online).
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