Haaland is already in Norway after the fun

The front of Manchester City Erling Haaland joined the concentration of the Norwegian team on Tuesday for the matches Scotland (this Saturday June 17) and Cyprus (Tuesday 20), qualifying for Euro 2024, after participating on Monday in the celebrations for his team’s victory on Saturday in the Champions League final against Inter (1-0).

The Norwegian star, who was allowed to join the group after his colleagues, landed on Tuesday afternoon at Oslo airport on a private plane with his girlfriend and friends.

Norwaywhich is included in the same group as spain, face this Saturday match Scotland and on Tuesday in front of Cyprus, both at home, two important promises to climb the positions in group A, where it is third with one point from two games, behind Spain (3) and Scotland (6).

the contest of Haaland, absent in defeat against Spain and the tie in Georgia due to injury, it seems important for Norway’s hopes, but the coach Confused Solbakken understand that the star of city two days off to celebrate with his friends.

“It is important that he rests and assimilates the euphoria of having done well with his teammates for ten or eleven months. You should be able to relax for 48 hours or something,” said the Norwegian coach in a press conference on Tuesday, indicating that the striker traveled with the rest of his team to celebrate the victory in Ibiza (Spain).

Solbakken is sympathetic to Haaland and he admits he won’t give him a speech “like Al Pacino” in ‘Any Given Sunday’ to encourage him for Saturday, but it’s about “common sense”.

“Rest, sleep and tactical training. I have to respect that maybe we should give it another chance than if it was another player, seeing what he went through”, he stated regarding Haaland. Solbakken However, he has no doubts about his star striker: “I’m sure he’ll be ready.”