Dæhli: – People get believe what they want, but I am proud that we tried – Aftenbladet.no

Landslaget two youngest were the two most unhappy. Dæhli and Ødegaard believes that it came something good out of the loss in Zagreb.

Croatia-Norway 5-1

ZAGREB: Norway fielded a 16-year old on top and a 20-year-old left wing in a 4-4-2 formation. Naively, believed someone. Quite right, said Mats Møller Dæhli (20).

– I am proud that we go out in an offensive formation away from home. That is how we will emerge. Initially we did what we had planned. It was just so annoying with the goal against which came on their only shot on goal in half, said Mats Møller Dæhli after the game.

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Missing routine

He was disappointed, spoke quietly and reflection about what had happened on the pitch. Norway had been the best team the first half hour of the match. Then came the unfortunate answer to Marcelo Brozović. Norway was under 0-1. In many ways the game.

– We must realize that we are a little inexperienced in some phases of the game, admitted Freiburg pro afterwards.

He had a mid-day on job on its left edge. Sometimes he attacked with speed and precision, other parts of the game he was almost invisible.

– We’ll just take this as good learning. What we do know after this, is that we must work even harder every day in training. And hope for a place in the European Championships next year is not gone. We do not give, he stated.

Disappointed age 16

The player who has had overwhelmingly most media coverage ahead of this match, Martin Ødegaard, was a bit surprising in Per- coaching staff start up.

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Afterwards he came småhaltende against the bus that would take the players to the charter plane that flew players directly to Oslo during the night. There was no smiling 16-year-old who spoke with the media.

– My performance was partly good, but right now it’s not so easy to think about other than that we lost the match 1-5, told the youngster.

He did not Norway deserved to lose by as much as 1-5 in this game.

– They were raw in front of both goals. That’s the big difference, said Ødegaard.

Penalty Miss

Tarik Elyounoussi is in many ways a veteran on the team even if he is still not more than 27 years. He would very much in the game, but it would not move.

– It feels as if we are punished very hard. We had the belief that this could go. They do not have any big chances. They score all the goals, and before the third goal was the hands, he told after the game.

He took punish for Norway. Had he scored on it, it could easily have become a bit of excitement in the game. But the punishment hit the post.

– Exactly summarize only the entire match for us. Stang out all the way, said Elyounoussi.

Not dissatisfied trainer

Those who perhaps showed the least disappointment outwardly over the loss against a strong Croatian team was coach Per-Mathias Høgmo. He was in many ways satisfied with what his boys performing.

– 5-1 is not something nice result, but I think we succeeded battle plan. But they scored at crucial mistake on our part, said Høgmo at the press conference after the game.

In many ways it was a match that showed a difference between boys and men. Young Norwegian players strove to begin the fight and had the hang of Croatia in 30 minutes. But then showed Croats that they have been out on a winter before. They were men with “chest hair” in duels and had precision in the crucial moments. Thus began the goals conceded to race in.

Cracked after the break

After the break it was youthful spirit of which had marked the opening of the game gone. Gone were also all hope of being able to bring their points back to Norway when Ivica Olic poked 3-0 under Ørjan Nyland 66 minutes.

Croatia would never have given away a tremålsledelse at home with a button half hour to play anyway. Neither the expulsion of Vedran Corluka for two yellow cards, could shake Croatia to a poengtap.

And the reduction of Alexander Tettey 82 minutes was too little too late that it made a difference.

Everything was in many ways as it should be when Mario Madzukic inserted 4-1 after 87 minutes and Danijel Pranjic in overtime scheduled humiliation 5-1 in overtime.

– We fail at some crucial point in the game. Of course seeing the result ugly, but it’s a bit unfair that it eventually ends 1-5, says Stefan Johansen.

FACTS SATURDAY

GROUP A

Kazakhstan – Iceland 0-3 (0-2)

Objective: 0-1 Eidur Gudjohnsen (20) 0 -2 Birkir Bjarnason (32), 0-3 Bjarnason (90)

Played Astana.

Czech Republic – Latvia 1-1 (0-1)

Objective: 0-1 Aleksei Visnakovs (30), 1-1 Vaclav Pilar (90).

Played in Prague.

Netherlands – Turkey 1-1 (0-1)

Objective: 0-1 Burak Yilmaz (37), 1-1 Wesley Sneijder (90).

Played in Amsterdam.

GROUP B

Israel – Wales 0-3 (0-1)

Objective: 0-1 Aaron Ramsey (45), 0-2 Gareth Bale (50), 0-3 Bale (77).

Red Card Eitan Tibi (51), Israel.

Played in Haifa .

Andorra – Bosnia and Herzegovina 0-3 (0-1)

Objective: 0-1 Edin Dzeko (13), 0-2 Dzeko (49), 0-3 Dzeko (62).

Played in Andorra la Vella.

Belgium – Cyprus 5-0 (2-0)

Objective: 1-0 Marouane Fallaini (21), 2-0 Christian Benteke (35), 3-0 Felaini (66), 4-0 Eden Hazard (67), 5-0 Michy Batshuayi ( 80).

Played in Brussels.

GROUP H

Croatia – Norway 5-1 (1-0)

Objective: 1-0 Marcelo Brozović (30), 2-0 Ivan Perisic (54), 3-0 Ivica Olic (66), 3-1 Alexander Tettey (81), 4-1 Gordon Schildenfeld (87 ), 5-1 Danijel Pranjic (90).

Red Card: Vedran Corluka (74, two yellow), Croatia.

Ca. 25,000 spectators in Zagreb.

Azerbaijan – Malta 2-0 (1-0)

Objective: 1-0 Javid Husejnov (4), 2- 0 Dimitrij Nazarov (90).

Played in Baku.

Bulgaria – Italy 2-2 (2-1)

Dimensions: 0-1 Jordan Minev (own goal 3), 1-1 Ivelin Popov (11), 2-1 Ilijan Micanskij (17), 2-2 Éder (84).

Played ii Sofia.