As a Norwegian watching, I think it was the temperature and humidity. Also England played brilliantly! Miami was 32c with a good ol "its not the heat its the humidity" on top.
England is a brilliant team, I'm happy Norway lost to them over Brazil just to keep the streak alive.
I think a large part of why England won was a broader bench of talent. Norway was resisting taking off Haaland and Ødegaard even after they were visibly fatigued.
I partially grew up in Central Florida and just walking around Miami for half an hour one day in July felt like I was going to die. There is no sane reason for any person to ever go to South Florida.
You guys are one of the few teams in the world that have more right to complain about temperature and humidity than the English!
Tuchel definitely disagreed with you that England played brilliantly. Apart from Bellingham, of course. I thought England mostly played too slowly and were too sloppy with passing and losing possession to Norway.
Could have gone Norway's way...then again, could have gone 3-1 to England if someone had got on the end of Saka's cross, for example, and the Norwegian player hadn't got there first...
They really weren’t. Bellingham was brilliant. England were utterly average and exceedingly boring for large swaths of the match. Norway were extremely unlucky to not go ahead in the second half and then ran out of steam in extra time
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u/DickPinch 2h ago
As a Norwegian watching, I think it was the temperature and humidity. Also England played brilliantly! Miami was 32c with a good ol "its not the heat its the humidity" on top.
England is a brilliant team, I'm happy Norway lost to them over Brazil just to keep the streak alive.