Norway had little to fear from its trip to Italy. It was enough for him to lose by less than nine goals to validate his ticket for the 2026 World Cup. However, the Scandinavians put their best foot forward on Sunday at San Siro.
Because if the Norwegians struggled in the first half, logically finding themselves trailing 1-0 after half an hour following a goal from the great hope Francesco Pio Esposito, they turned everything around in the second half and finally won 4-1 in Milan. Enough to allow them to complete this qualifying campaign with eight victories in eight matches.
Erling Haaland, however, had it bad after the match. The Manchester City striker, however, scored twice against Gianluigi Donnarumma. But if the former Borussia Dortmund player was angry, it was because of the behavior of transalpine defender Gianluca Mancini.
“He started touching my butt”
In the wake of Antonio Nusa’s equalizer, the two men had an altercation in the penalty area, with the Italian goalkeeper being left to have to hold back his club teammate. “At 1-1, he started touching my butt, and I was like, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ So, I pulled myself together and said to him: ‘Thank you very much for the motivation, let’s go’commented Erling Haaland after the meeting.
“After that, I scored two goals, we won 4-1, it’s great. Thanks to him,” added the Citizens player, author of two goals in two minutes in the last quarter of an hour, the first with a good volley and the second following a poor recovery from the Nazionale players.
