There are no more miracles! Direct access to Italy is only a theoretical possibility, and Haaland Odegaard’s national team competition dream comes true

In the 9th round of Group I of the European Group Stage of the World Cup Qualifiers on November 14, Italy defeated Norway 2-0 in an away game. It is only theoretically possible for Italy to advance directly to the World Cup.

In the standings, Norway leads Italy by 3 points, but the final round will be a direct match between the two teams. However, Norway currently leads Italy by 17 goal differences. Italy must win by more than 9 goals if it wants to pass through.

In this World Cup preliminaries, Norway won all 7 games, scored 33 goals and only conceded 4 goals, ranking first in Group I with an absolute advantage.

This will be the fourth time in the history of the Norwegian team to participate in the World Cup. In the previous three times, they failed in the group stage once and stopped in the top 16 twice. The last time Norway participated in a world series was the 2000 European Cup, and the last time it participated in a World Cup was in the 1998 World Cup.