BASEL (Ekstra Bladet): It was nearly as impressive, that Åge Hareide had managed to get the pulse down to a normal level, since he asked up to questions after the could lead to-comebacket against Switzerland, as the piece of work, his players had delivered in the incomprehensible slutminutter at St. Jakob-Park.
And there was also just a few minutes, before he allowed himself the first smile, while he put the words on the rollercoaster ride of a football match, as he and the rest of the football-Denmark had just been witness to.
But he stressed that it was not only chance, as did, to a humiliating defeat was turned into triumph.
It seemed as if, the first goal gave the team belief and energy. I have read somewhere, that you call it luck, but I don’t think it is luck. It is an achievement to come back against such a strong team, and it says something about our character, said Hareide, before he allowed himself a relief smile.
– I think that the team’s character has been instilled in the team over the years. We played with almost the same team like against Croatia at the WORLD cup. The belief in the team has been created in Denmark, explained Hareide.
– In the break we talked about, that we would not lose, and we came out for the second half like a new team. Switzerland’s two goals were terrible for the players, and they were terrible on the sidelines, admitted the Norwegian.
He feels that his players came out from the fight as the moral winners, even if the effort along the way was to dumpekarakter.
In football it goes from heaven to hell, and funnily enough it is probably the reason why I still love football. But it is only sport. There is no one who is dead, and there is no one who has been abandoned.
– the Players lifted themselves, and we look like winners more than Switzerland, which lost two points, noted the national coach.
He now has a few months to speculate over how the national team avoid a repeat of the meltdown that was delivered in the first 84 minutes.
– We know that it could be ended with a terrible result for us, but it lifted us all. Conversely, it was annoying for all that we started, which we did. And we need to look at why it happened.
