After Norway lost 1-3 against Japan, the temperature in NRK’s ​​WC studio was very high. And especially Aleksander Schau who raised his spirits.

This NRK expert gave a three and a half minute monologue about the disappointment he felt after leaving the toilet.

– Bad World Cup

He believes it’s easy to sit in the studio and look for the positives and be a little positive after Norway progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup.

However, Schau believes this will only harm the Norwegian women’s national team.

– This is a bad toilet. We must be able to be open and honest about this. This is too weak. Not close to what we can expect from our team, he started an emotional tirade at NRK after the game.

He assessed that the results obtained were still far from previously established expectations.

– If you promise me a trip to London as a birthday present, and then we go to the center of Storo… I just want it to be good, but it’s not enough. That’s far from what they promised. If you promise something, you should at least try to keep it. I understand that this is football, there is bad luck and bad luck, smoothness and smoothness. But we hadn’t even been able to smell anything that was said, he was sure.

He is not alone in that attitude.

– It’s hard to be positive about the WC’s efforts, writes football expert Lars Tjærnås in Aftenposten. He wrote that he hoped to “find the answer to why Norway’s performance was weaker than the individual player numbers suggest”.

– How about we sit here and lie?

Schau admits that, in isolation, reaching the play-offs at the World Cup is acceptable, but believes the performances have been well below par.

– How about we sit here and lie? Are we going to sit here and make up a bride who doesn’t want to get married? Should we move on, or should we be open and honest and treat this national team with the respect it deserves? That is, we must be completely honest. We can’t sit here and be cheerleaders all the time. It was too bad and it was that simple, he was sure.

Here you can see Schaus’ entire emotional monologue after Norway’s defeat:

Rice: – Lnot me on behalf of those girls

National team manager Hege Riise was also disappointed after Norway’s World Cup slump on Saturday.

– I feel a little sorry for the girls. “We are very confident that we can shake up Japan,” he told NRK.

– It’s been a year with this project. What have you learned from it?

– I have learned a lot. Structurally, how do we face the best teams. We met Japan which was amazingly nice. Many returned home with many goals in their bags. We held back for a long time. They scored 3-1 when we tried to convert, as a consequence. We try. “We also received some answers that as we get better at the game, the benefits will be greater,” he said.

– Is there anything you could or would do differently this year?

– Not something that immediately comes to mind. We’ve tried a lot of players, and we’re seeing new players being added. Also from Toppserien. And this is a strength for Norwegian football, which continues to develop and players emerge. We have taken steps structurally and with a battle plan. He believes the players will welcome this and accept what we have done.

Hegerberg: – Achieve our goals

Ada Hegerberg left the field goalless after being substituted 17 minutes from time. He then ended up with zero goals in the WC, and the superstar was disappointed with his WC exit.

– We achieved our goal, because the goal was to get ahead of the group. But I think our smell is more than that. There is still much more to develop, and we hope to achieve much more. But we have to aim higher if we want to compete at the highest level. “Then we have to make demands and find out what needs to be done better in the future, but I feel like we’ve left everything in the WC,” he told NRK.

– Very disappointed

Former national team player and current NRK expert, Elise Thorsnes, believes it is time for Norway to realize its place in the current football hierarchy.

– There are many good countries further down the FIFA rankings that have made great progress in recent years. Maybe you’re not there right now, he said.

Torp believes Thorsnes is on to something important. Maybe expectations don’t match reality.

– There are still many people who lack references and insights to understand our existence. This is a very important point that a lot of things are happening in Europe, there are bigger developments in the big football countries. Both in our own part of the world, but also in other parts of the world. However I am very disappointed that we have been missed now. This happened before it should have happened, Torp believes.

– Don’t expect anyone to get hurt

Schau said that every time he sat on TV and criticized the Norwegian national team, he was criticized because he was not positive enough.

However, he denied that he was critical just for the sake of being critical.

– I’m a fan, I love this team here. I think the cast is absolutely fantastic. I think Hege Riise is one of the best people in Norwegian football. I don’t want any of this to be harmful. Then you get it back that you were just complaining, he said.

– We can sit here and talk about how great the show was. No, that’s not a good look. It was a roll of the dice, he said.

Now it is Japan who will play in the quarterfinals by beating Norway next Friday, against the winner of Sunday’s round of 16 between Sweden and the United States.

Now the WC continues with several rounds of 16 finals on Sunday. Here you will find the entire WC program.