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Norway v Spain - Sunday 15/10/23


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Ødegaard and Haaland must absolutely hate Internationals.

They go from being surrounded by fellow world class players to practically playing 2v11, with a bunch of duds for teammates.

Especially that defence... Get Kirk Broadfoot in and it'll look better.

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1 minute ago, MarkoRaj said:

Is a win for Norway a disaster for Spain or equal to a draw?

They don't seem to have any urgency about them whatsoever

Spain's last 2 games are Home to Georgia and Away to Cyrpus. Even not winning this shouldn't panic them.

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1 minute ago, ClydeTon said:

Ødegaard and Haaland must absolutely hate Internationals.

They go from being surrounded by fellow world class players to practically playing 2v11, with a bunch of duds for teammates.

Especially that defence... Get Kirk Broadfoot in and it'll look better.

Haaland could have played for England. Norway have never set the world alight, so he must have known his choice when he made it. 

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Actually Stewart, incredibly, makes a good point there, the Norwegian player did deliberately play the ball, it wasn’t a deflection or anything. Isn’t that the deciding factor in offside if the opposing player deliberately plays the ball?

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Just now, Jambomo said:

Actually Stewart, incredibly, makes a good point there, the Norwegian player did deliberately play the ball, it wasn’t a deflection or anything. Isn’t that the deciding factor in offside if the opposing player deliberately plays the ball?

He also appears to have only just spotted that had Morata left it, it would still have gone in.  

A point that was immediately obvious to everyone else in the world who watched it.

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26 minutes ago, Fuctifano said:

If the Norwegian defender isn't trying to play the ball, what the f**k is he trying to do, some kind of interpretative dance?

I think the best way to think about it is if the GK picks it up, would it be a passback?

Not saying the rule is perfect, but that's the way it is.

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Just now, Monkey Tennis said:

He also appears to have only just spotted that had Morata left it, it would still have gone in.  

A point that was immediately obvious to everyone else in the world who watched it.

Including Morata himself right after he scored it.

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Stewart has actually made a good point there. It's not like the Norwegian player was running and it's hit him - he was, clearly, stretching to try and cut the ball out. Either trying to stop it in it's tracks or flick it into the Goalkeeper's arms.

He fucked it and it went goal-bound. It was entirely intentional contact, just an unintentional outcome.

Michael, you win this round...

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1 minute ago, Monkey Tennis said:

He also appears to have only just spotted that had Morata left it, it would still have gone in.  

A point that was immediately obvious to everyone else in the world who watched it.

Yes, the best thing would have been to leave it. That said, was he actually offside if the Norwegian player deliberately kicks it back (though obviously not meaning to put it in the net).

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9 minutes ago, mrpaddyx said:

Spain's last 2 games are Home to Georgia and Away to Cyrpus. Even not winning this shouldn't panic them.

They'd have little chance of being in pot 1 after dropping 5 points, though

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