It is expected that Norway must fight against today’s opponents Bulgaria for third place that can provide tour of France in summer 2016 Tonight Ullevaal duel can therefore decide Norway EM-fate .
– This match is very important. In our pool there are two teams that are “too good”, two teams that are bad and Norway and Bulgaria which are smooth. As long as mutual settlement goes ahead goal difference Norway can probably not lose this battle won. This is a kind of internal play-off duel for third place, says VG journalist Knut Espen Svegården.
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In the Norwegian pool are Italy and Croatia with six points after two matches. Norway and Bulgaria follow with three each while Azerbaijan and Malta are the donut in point protocol. In other words, a table similar to the already pre-tips.
– For Norway, the chance to be among the top two quite small. The distance up to the top is still too large, and therefore the now famous third place become very important so second place was before. The advantage now is that we do not show as strong resistance on the play off as treerlag says Svegården.
– Then there are the questions whether there is any point to fight for the European Championships in third place on the team is not have so much to do there, but it’s a slightly different discussion.
When asked if this is the battle for 3rd place, said coach coaching staff this weekend:
– If this fight had gone on a later date, so we could have sharpened it that way. But every game gives three points, and there are still 24 points to fight for. It decided nothing Monday, but victory will provide a good starting point. Draws can be to live with. Losses do that Bulgaria will receive three points for us.
24 layers of
European Championship started small, with four teams in the playoffs in the first five tournaments (1960 to 1976), eight teams in the next four (1980 to 1992) and 16 teams from 1996 to 2012.
I Football Championship number 15 in France in 2016, inc ie to 24 teams.
– Many people think there are too many layers, and that the entire EM concept is watered down. It may well be, but it is difficult to conclude before you have tried once, says Svegården.
The 53 nations are divided into nine qualifying pools where the top two moving on. It also makes the best bronze winner, while the eight other threes player play off matches for the last four spots.
In most groups are in practice only three or four teams that stand between. For top nations is hardly possible to fail, while Norway has a good chance to qualify for their second European Cup (was in 2000).
Italy always
Italy has been involved in all EM-offs since the championship in 1996, Croatia has been involved in four of the last five World Cup final games and four of the last five EM-offs. Both were in place in Brazil in the summer.
There is likely to be a fight between Norway and Bulgaria for third place. Bulgarians have not been any Playoffs since the European Championships in 2004 but has been in progress under the leadership of Ljuboslav Penev (48), best remembered for his time as a phony front end in Valencia. Bulgaria met Italy in the World Cup qualifiers last well (2-2 home, 0-1 away), and was headed for a playoff place until they went over the end of the run. Lose 1-2 away in Armenia and 0-1 at home against the Czech Republic in the last two games ruined everything.
Norway ended third in their last two European Championship qualifiers, while there was another place for Denmark qualifying for the 2004 European Championships. It had given playoff place now, but gave only playoff-chance that time – and there was Spain too strong.
Here are the 14 European Championship finals played:
1960: USSR – Yugoslavia 2-1 AET.
1964: Spain – Soviet 2-1
1968: Italy – Yugoslavia 1-1 AET., rematch which Italy won 2-0
1972: West Germany – Soviet 3-0
1976 Tsjekk. – V-Germany 2-2 (5-3 after penalties)
1980: West Germany – Belgium 2-1
1984: France – Spain 2-0
1988: Netherlands – Soviet 2 -0
1992: Denmark – Germany 2-0
1996: Germany – Czech Republic 2-1 (Golden Goal)
2000: France – Italy 2-1 (Golden Goal)
2004: Greece – Portugal 1-0
2008: Spain – Germany 1-0
2012: Spain – Italy 4-0
Most EM-Gold:
3: West Germany / Germany and Spain.
Most European Championship finals:
6: West Germany / Germany.
4: the Soviet Union and Spain
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