WC 2010 Qual. Europe - Norway v Iceland
Along these 2 teams in the group we have Netherlands, Macedonia and Scotland. Netherlands as the big favorites, Norway and Scotland to fight for 2th place and finally Iceland and Macedonia to fight for not being the most crappy team.
Both teams have played some friendlies to get readdy for the opening of the qualic-matches. Iceland ha ve played Azerbajdzan (1-1) and Wales (0-1 loss). Norway have made 2 draws against Uruguay (2-2) and Ireland(1-1). None of them with great results, but of course the quality betweet the opponents where slightly harder for Norway.
I will focus on the hometeam. The norwegian attackers are great in their club-teams, Carew is playing great for Aston Villa, Torstein Helstad is playing great for Le Mans, and back in Norway we have Moa and Steffen Iversen both playing great. Carew will be at the top and Steffen Iversen will be kind of an attacking midfielder behind Carew. Star-players Riise and Gamst Pedersen is also ready for the match. And of abscenes is Goalkeeper Håkon Opdal the only one missing. Norway have had some frustration years now. Ending only nr 3 in the Euro-qualic, only one point short. And they lost to many points in matches they seemed to have under control. So they were really happy and lucky to get Iceland in the first match in these stages, so to get the frustration and pressure away - an easy match to get it over with. Coach Åge Hareide also annunced that he is going in to his last period of coaching Norway.
Norway need to take all 3 points at home against the weakest Land in the group, and I can't see something other than that happening. Max stakes on Norway. Place bet fast. The odds will drop.
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