As in 2017, Norway were eliminated in the group stage. A 0-1 loss to Austria sealed the fate of a match that Norway had to win to prepare for the quarter-finals.
– It’s heavy. I at least hope that we will qualify from the group stage, but in the last two games we have been a shadow of ourselves. We don’t deserve to go any further. “Today we squandered the first half,” Graham Hansen told TV 2 after the drop at Brighton.
He felt there was a trend after the break, but he said the total was “far from good enough”.
– It’s hard not to bring out the potential we know we have inside. Now I just feel empty, added the Barcelona star.
Norway has the goal of lifting a hair from the European Championship medals. Graham Hansen explains why after Friday’s exit this way:
– When we say medals, it’s because it’s too low to say quarterfinals. Then it continued to move from the group stage. Then the medal is a bit too high. I feel we are somewhere in between.
– Now we smoke in a group game. For us as a nation, that’s not good enough. We should have wanted to come together and fight for medals and the top four in Europe, but we see that we are far from that now. We have to go home and work, the 27-year-old told TV 2.
The European Championship started with Norway’s 4-1 win over Northern Ireland, but the 0-8 to England really put Martin Sjögren’s team out of control.
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