Ada Hegerberg Switzerland – Norway 1 – 2
Ada Hegerberg was not good enough.
The other day Required ex-TV2 celebrity Ernst A. Lersveen that Ada Hegerberg had to get away from the tip of the Norwegian European Championship national team:
– Why is it obvious that the big scorer who almost no longer scores, will play from the start in all international matches, asked Lersveen in Nettavisen, and even replied:
– I ask because it seems of course that she should play. And it is strange, wrote He and accused in the same slang Norwegian sports media to be too cowardly when it came to giving the football girls honest feedback on how bad they really play:
– Is it simply because the media is afraid to offend Ada Hegerberg? And with the fear of not interviewing the football star afterwards? I know of several such cases from my time in the industry, continued Veteran Lersveen without giving examples.
Ada herself thought it was even more strange that it was a ski enthusiast who came out of the forest just before the European Football Championship, and suddenly wanted to wreck the best Norwegian football girl of all time:
– Is he going to the European Championship?she asked sour online newspaper when they asked for a response to the criticism.
– I should. So I choose to focus on itAda continued.
Before she was the only Norwegian player who scored goals in a European start against the host country Switzerland as Norway marvelously won 2 – 1.
NOW So stand the football girls with 3 lucky points from the European Championship opening, while Norway’s captain leads 1-0 over an ex-TV celebrity.
It could have been 2 – 0 if Ada Hegerberg had not messed up technically with a penalty kick towards the end, but just the private match is quite insignificant.
On the other hand, it is not the issue behind Lersveen’s criticism of the Norwegian sports media’s approach to the football girls.
Even after a female age with big Norwegian triumphs in the sport, there is still a big difference in the degree of honest, professionally based criticism of individual players in the boy and girl football.
Even at the national team, the girls are generally milder, and it is obviously discriminatory.
THIS The difference is reflected in the catchy criticism of the last season coaches to Norway’s national team.
Instead of analyzing the obvious sub -performance of Ada Hegerberg, Caroline Graham Hansen and the rest of the team in several of the crucial matches, Norwegian football journalists have thrown themselves over the national team coaches.
In two championships in a row, disappointing matches, internal turmoil and dissatisfied star players, sent two of these coaches on the direct.
First Swedish Martin Sjögren after the humiliation with 0 – 8 against England in the European Championships 2022, and then Hege Riise after the World Cup in 2023 where superstar Caroline Graham Hansen was wrecked from the start against Switzerland in the second match in the basic game.
AND had already NRK’s commentator Carl Erik Torp deposited Riise before The match started:
– If you are unable to accommodate one of the world’s best players in their position on a Norwegian team then you are already unsuccessful as a coach and leaderNRK’s man wrote on Twitter, while the star herself followed up for an open microphone and told that she “felt stepped on” by the national coach.
Gossip, NRK!
THEN It didn’t help that Riise’s star wrecking had a nice effect on the national team and that Caroline herself apologized for the blowout the following day. Nor did the Norwegian girls advanced to the 1/8-part final.
The blame was already placed on the coach bench, Hege Riise had lost important groups in the wardrobe and the Football Association followed up with her job.
Then Norway invested in Gemma Grainger with a background from the strong English women’s football, without it being changed in a purely in terms of playing anything.
This point-in-the-time European start was first and foremost luck.
Drama in the family
Really Started this championship more than stubborn, and it was just the players’ own mistake:
In the first round, the Norwegian girls played each other first and foremost bad.
Then Norway had all the characteristics of a team without gambling and morals.
The movement was weak, we were shut down in most of the duels and Switzerland with all their young, quick players should have led more than 1 – 0.
Brutal message
THIS Surprisingly large Swiss dominance was reinforced by poor Norwegian choices. The times we had the ball, it was all too often eased straight ahead without purpose and meaning.
That may happen in an opening match under great pressure, but here it also happened when our girls had plenty of time.
As on 0 – 1 when the Norwegian game distributor Ingrid Syrstad Engen in just a few seconds hit two simple mistakes so that the Swiss got a established one for Tough pressure in our penalty field.
We were literally punished for that.
Switzerland responds
The break Changed seemingly little. Also at the start of the second half, foot -run Swiss cut through a stagnant Norwegian midfield:
On the pitch was still nothing In the game that notified Norwegian success.
Only when Ada Hegerberg’s duel power combined with a surprising keeper tab gave 1 – 1 on the corner and the Swiss just minutes later arranged 1 – 2 on the self -goal did the match change.
Then finally more Norwegian players came closer to the duels.
Perhaps because coach Grainger eventually succeeded well with swaps that gave Norway both more speed and draft in the middle and increased the power on top.
BARE The experience of progress can in itself give players a boost into the championship.
It is necessary. Although the football girls should have plus to save the lead after Ada Hegerberg missed a penalty, there was little out on the field that is currently reminiscent of a strong Norwegian tournament team.
In that case, it had to be that the team has good alternatives at the front. Both Elisabeth Terland and Celin Bizet Ildhusøy had good jumps when Ada Hegerberg and Caroline Graham Hansen were taken off towards the end.
But with only 71 percent pass safetythere is still a fragile Norwegian player squad that tests the European Championships on against Iceland on Sunday.
Footnote: Dagbladet’s commentator Esten O. Sæther was Norway’s national team coach for futsal (indoor football) from 20009 to 2015.
All of Norway’s failure
