66 min Haaland leads a dangerous break and finds Odegaard. His lofted return is well read by Robertson, who calmly heads back to Gunn.
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65 min: Scotland substitution Liam Cooper for Kieran Tierney, which must be due to injury.
63 min: Norway substitution Sander Berge replaces Ola Solbakken, which suggests a slight stiffening of the midfield. Solbakken looks a good player.
GOAL! Norway 1-0 Scotland (Haaland 61 pen)
Haaland scores! Gunn went the right way, to his right, but Haaland arrowed a low shot into the corner. Excellent penalty.
Solbakken beat Robertson and stood up a fine cross to the far post. Haaland got the wrong side of Porteous and then fell over in a heap. I couldn’t be 100 per cent sure, and Porteous had a handful of his shirt, but it looked as if Haaland made the most of it that time. I suppose that’s his right given what happened a few minutes ago. Porteous wags his finger at the referee, but VAR won’t overturn this because of the shirt pull. He’s booked.
60 min: Penalty to Norway! He’s given in this time!
58 min Great play from Robertson, who knocks the ball one side of Ryerson and runs round the other. He moves to the left edge of the six-yard box and slides a low cross that is vitally cut out by Sandberg
57 min Actually, one of the Norway players who didn’t appeal for a penalty was Haaland. Had he stayed down, it would probably have been a penalty and a second yellow for Hendry.
56 min: Norway penalty appeal! Haaland zips past Hendry just inside the area, and Hendry desperately tries to drag him back. Haaland goes down on one knee – but then gets straight to his feet and the attack peters out. The referee actually signalled an advantage even though the incident was in the penalty area. VAR aren’t interested.
Hmm, I don’t know what to make of that. It wasn’t a clearcut penalty, but the referee definitely signalled an advantage.
55 min A reminder that a draw would be a very good result for Scotland, and a pretty bad one for Norway. This is how Group A looks as things stand.
53 min Tierney is booked for a foul on Ryerson, though he thought he won the ball fairly. Even if he didn’t, a yellow card is harsh.
52 min “To Jorn Iver Berg, thank you for the warm Norwegian welcome and the primer on Norwegian football,” writes Mary Waltz. “My Norwegian family mame is Horn so who knows, go back far enough in the family tables and we could be distant cousins.
“I recognise the possibility that the Lutefisk I consumed was not properly prepared but the memory of that bowl of jellied cod produced such culinary trauma that it will never happen again. Plus anything that uses lye in the recipe is a non-starter.”
51 min Ostigard stoops to head Odegaard’s free-kick wide from 14 yards. No matter, he and about four other Norway players were offside.
51 min “I’m afraid I must object, Rob, in the weakest possible terms, to the clear pro-Norwegian bias of this MBM,” says Simon McMahon. “I fully expect that Bjorge Lillenlien will be emailing in at full time after Norway’s 2-1 win to remind us that the Scots took a hell of a beating…”
50 min Nothing comes of the corner.
49 min A good touch from Dykes releases Christie, who wins a corner.
48 min Apologies, we’ve been having a few technical problems. McGinn has just hit a crisp drive from 25 yards that was saved by Nyland at the second attempt. It was straight at the keeper but bounced awkwardly in front.
46 min Peep peep!
Half time: Norway 0-0 Scotland
A half of few chances in Oslo. There was only one shot on target, a header that Alexander Sorloth planted straight at Angus Gunn. Erling Haaland was peripheral, though he looked set to charge through on goal from the halfway like when he was brought down by the last man Jack Hendry. He was booked; some referees would have upgraded it to a red card. I suppose there was just enough doubt, even with Haaland, as to whether it was a clear goalscoring opportunity.
45+1 min Robertson, who has probably been Scotland’s best attacker, beats Ryerson and curls a good cross towards Dykes at the near post. Ostigard gets in front of him to head away.
45+1 min One minute of added time. Porteous screams at Solbakken to get up after a strong challenge in midfield.
45 min “Dear Mary (on 8 minutes),” begins Jørn Ivar Berg. “You chose wisely. Norway is the team for you. Whether it will give you any joy, though, remains to be seen. We are very good at almost making it to the World Cup or the Euros. With two of the very best players in the premier league on our team (Haaland and Ødegaard) you may think that winning games would be easy, but here we are desperately seeking our first win of this campaign. You may wonder how bad the other nine players could be?
“By the way, the price for the most foul-tasting fish goes to the Swedes. Surströmming is nasty stuff as you can see from this video. Lutefisk is actually quite good if you prepare it right and put plenty of bacon on it :)”
44 min Steve Clarke will be unhappy about Scotland’s performance with the ball. But without it – and that is the most important part while the score is 0-0 – they’ve generally been excellent. Norway have dominated without really testing Angus Gunn, which is usually a sign of a good defensive performance.
41 min Hendry is booked for dragging down Haaland, who was trying to run onto a lobbed pass from Odegaard. The Norway players wanted a red card. Hendry was certainly the last man, but he was on the halfway line, so you can argue both ways whether it was a clear goalscoring opportunity. Given the pace of Haaland, I think it was.
39 min “So,” says Andrew Norton. “What do you think? Are the Norwegian players awful, apart from Haaland and the Arsenal fella? Isn’t it a case of defend in numbers and give to Odegaard who gives it to Haaland?”
Well, they have players at Napoli, Roma, Dortmund, Benfica, Feyenoord, Sociedad and Leipzig, so I’m not sure they’re a two-man team. But those are the stars, NQAT.
38 min McGinn is booked for a gratuitous foul on Odegaard. There wasn’t much in it, but it was deliberate so you can understand why the ref booked him.
36 min See 17 min.
35 min: Chance for Scotland! Christie angles a cross towards Robertson beyond the far post. Ryerson heads it away but only as far as McGinn, whose snapshot from 10 yards is crucially blocked by Strandberg. Fine defending.
33 min Robertson puts in a really good cross from the left, but Dykes in on his heels and Christie arrives too late in the area.
32 min Odegaard’s crisp long-range shot is well blocked by Porteous. He is so dangerous from 20-25 yards, such is the precision of … well, everything he does, but particularly his shooting.
