Ready for many penalty – Dagsavisen

BUDAPEST: – It does not matter to me how we qualify for the European Championships, as long as we get there. Then it may happen penalty or whatever it may be, says Nyland said.

25-year-old has cursed himself that goal against at home should not be decisive. Sunday will all Norwegian victories except 1-0 to send the Norwegian team to playoff, while a draw or loss means goodbye to EM dream.

One Norwegian goals and no Hungarian means everything shall be settled in the course of a nerve drama with shots from 11-meter mark. Neither Nyland or Norway outfield players are afraid to deal with the stress.

Nyland has good experience of penalty shoot-outs in big games. He became famous overnight when he in 2012 played great for Hødd in the cup final against Tromsø and decided the penalty shootout in sunnmørslagets favor. Coaching staff remember it well.

– He gave me a bad experience then. He was absolutely fantastic, says the then Tromsø coach.

Quality

– I fear nothing but take what comes. The main thing is that we get to the European Championship, and we’ll do that, says Nyland, who happily looks outfield players determine the battle for Norway in regular time.

– It is clear that we prepares us that there can be penalty, but the important thing is that we do our job even. Hopefully we get a goal early, for we know that Hungary will fear us. We showed recently that we have quality enough to create many chances, and then it’s just putting them into goals.

Nyland kept a clean sheet in five games in a row until it was two backwards in Italy and one unhappily at Ullevaal against Hungary. Meanwhile, Norway scored exactly one goal in each of their last four away games in qualifying, so Norwegian 1-0 win away (so, for the third time in qualifying) is not very unlikely.

Without fear

Whether there are penalties, the job of Nyland to save. And so he needs some teammates who are not afraid to shoot. Høgmo says that his team has practiced penalty at their closed training sessions since the collection started.

– We must go for victory, and if it becomes 1-0 and ends with a penalty shootout, so we just have to take it. Then everything happen, but there are many players here who are used to scoring goals, and it should not stand on the confidence front checkout, says Jo Inge Berget, who will report for duty.

– If I’m out there then, so that I can set up and take a penalty.

Marcus Pedersen is not afraid that he did not handle the pressure.

– Penalty is a penalty. There are many who have scored and many have missed. We’ll take it there and then, he said.

– But you are not among those who get jelly legs in such a situation?

– No! (NTB)