Put your job at stake – Dagbladet.no

BUDAPEST (Dagbladet): You saw it on his face, there was nothing left out of a troubled man. The coaching staff took a chance and lost so that branch.

For when Norway needed good choice and a wise strategy did he (almost) just wrong.

So many that the credibility of his has suffered a major blow.

So rough that his job as national coach is bound to be a topic of discussion.

There is no comfort in the fact that Norway is a young team with great potential and ditto opportunities. After two losses for Hungary is the most rhetorical prattling. For here and now, for a truth play off, the Project Høgmo officially a profit failure.

And ultimately it is what matters in football.

WHAT THE RESULTS OF the poor results are there suits at Ullevaal stadium that must adhere to. Large sections of public opinion will now mean it is not viable for another two years with the coaching staff. It is not difficult to understand them.

For EM expansion to 24 teams, and two weak matches when it mattered most against a not too good opponent, proves really that Norway is not even close to the union’s objectives and the people’s demands.

And when you do not win crucial football matches, and also trying to sell into what is quite poor little better than it is, then you’re in trouble.

BUT NORWAY’S PROBLEMS This is naturally not only about Høgmo choice on a frightful night in Budapest. Nor that he has a boring habit to get lost in his own rhetoric. Once the withdrawal and the almost desperate transition to 4-3-3 is digested, must Norwegian football take into account the fact that the biggest problem is that we have too few really good players. We are simply not good enough.

Just the fact that over half of the nation’s football experts and opinion makers until break in Budapest has meant that Martin Ødegaard is not only good enough for Norway, he is also the one who can save us, tells me how thin it really is.

For we had not called for a 16-year-old who has hardly played competitive football beyond the 23 Tippeligaen matches at age 15, if we had had good enough adult players.

Then we had left Martin Ødegaard be at peace with its own development.

And used him when it suits without pressure, requirements and meaningless expectations.

NFF HAVE many interests to consider in this case. Not least the coaching staff. It’s not just his fault that it has gone as it has gone. This is equivalent circumstances. But no one should be mistaken about that results are coaching staff responsibilities.

It was there he accepted when he took over Drillo.

And that is what he is paid for .

MEN ambition is Norwegian Football Association. The merchants on 25th place in FIFA rankings and regular participation in European and World Championships. For 15 years they have been enshrined in NFF action. And it will only continue. But word in a document is not reality, it’s just words.

The reality is 0-1 and 1-2 for Hungary.

And it is brutal.

coaching staff says of course he must say after their toughest defeat as Norway boss, and that is that the team is young, has the future ahead of them and so on. The human mind has often an ego-oriented defense mechanism that distances itself from the realities of reason are unable to relate to. It’s called denial.

And that’s where I feel the coaching staff and Norway are now, neither the coach or the players are capable of seeing the fact.

We’re not good enough.

And without EM next summer be made back developmentally.

It’s not all money football miss as is heaviest to carry. Or goodwill and the so-called synergies. Football in Norway alive. And it will continue. But for soccer federation flagship is not the outlook as good, and right now it feels like the A-team is sent in circulation.

And even worse.

This is where it belongs.