Expert’s play: “Can win the World Cup”
Published 2025-09-09 22.35
Norway won by 11-1 against Moldova in a match where Erling Haaland scored five goals.
Then NRK’s football expert Carl-Erik Torp said that Norway has a good enough team to win the World Cup.
-I think Carl-Erik has got a cardiac arrest, says the union captain Ståle Solbakken.
The World Cup is close to Norway.
After 11-1 against Moldova, 154th on the world ranking, Norway has won all five matches in the World Cup qualifier-including against Italy.
With Norway’s superior goal difference, it will be enough to win against Estonia and Israel to go to the World Cup. Norway can even lose the closing group final against Italy.
After the match noted NRK’s football expert Carl-Erik Torp following:
– We can win the World Cup, he says and continues:
– It’s about the players we have. How they work together, they play their best football in the national team, they are hungry and we can beat from below. It is an incredibly cool position to have before a championship. On a good day we can beat everyone.
The union captain does not agree
A statement that caused the union captain Ståle Solbakken to raise the eyebrows at the press conference.
-Now I think Carl-Erik has got a cardiac arrest. We know everything about pacemakers, and when it starts to go you get some air to the brain. I think that’s what has happened now, says Solbakken according to Dagbladet.
Best since 1948
Erling Haaland had the most fun of all in the 11-1 victory.
Haaland, with his injured lip, made hattrick the first half and in the second half the show continued.
The Norwegian superstar scored two more goals in what resulted in a devastating 11-1 victory.
– It’s pretty sick this. There is really nothing to say. It speaks for itself. Damn good, Haaland tells TV2.
He became the first Norwegian since Odd Wang Sörensen in 1948 to score five goals in one match. He has also scored 48 goals on 45 international matches.
“It’s a dream to play with him,” says Ödegaard about Haaland.
Four goals of the runner
But Haaland was not the only player who offered a real hattrick.
So did Thelo Aasgaard, who became a four -goal shooter.
The Norwegian men’s national football team has not played a World Cup since 1998.
Arena: UllevaalJudge: Balazs Berke
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E. Dad F. Myhre (1-0)
6′
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F. Myhre E. Dad (2-0)
11′
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M. Ødegaard E. Dad (3-0)
36′
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M. Ødegaard E. Dad (4-0)
43′
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45’+1
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S. Bodistanu V. Postolachi
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D. Wolfe E. Dad (6-0)
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T. Aasgaard (9-1) (str)
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J. Ryerson E. Dad (10-1)
83′
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E. Dad T. Aasgaard (11-1)
90’+1
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90’+3
