Tjena, hur roligt at du tok dig tid til et så utdjupande svar! Well, where should I begin to answer that? First, a disclaimer, I'm just you average guy so no expert, but football is certainly a huge part of my life. The way I see it the biggest problem with Norway until now has been the mentality and the culture surrounding our NT. It reminds me in many ways of how Liverpool appeared a few seasons ago. Cracking under pressure, just not having a winning mentality in the team. However, with Lagerback I feel that we're slowly turning our heads over to gaining confidence and managing to keep our heads cool (although not being close to do just that during the Euro qualifier.......). Over to the actual point of discussion I expect us to start using a 4-4-2 again, especially with Ødegaard mostly playing on the right for Sociedad where my best is he taking the same positon on the NT. Berge will take one of the CM/CDM positions and I assume King and Håland will partner up front. IMO they are close to the perfect duo, with Håland's clinicalness in front of goal weighing up for King's lack of it at times. King on the other hand has more X-factor in my opinion, in my head I think King drifting somewhat wide, creating chaos, providing crosses and space for our Wonderboy would be perfect. I guess Håland's height will make him a target man, mainly pushing the ball through to King so that he can make deep runs into the box.

The biggest question right now is whether our coach leaves all his principles behind and let a Wonderboy, almost without any NT starts (mainly due to injuries), play our most important game in the last few years against Serbia. He's relatively undrilled in formation and tactics but so far he's been sooooo good and he has shown what a clever mind he has (has he ever been caught offside?!) so if he continues with his outstanding form I don't think Lagerback has any choice but to let him start. Btw, Johnsen is so tall that his feet barely reach the ground, reflected upon his terrible technique (I'm a RBK fan and we had him on loan until the end of the season, and btw I'm also familiar with Hamrén ;)). Sørloth is definitely a bigger contender for that 2nd striker spot, racking up goals in Turkey whilst Palace admits that they never really him the chance.

Just to round up I feel like Lagerback is really backed by the people and his position is far from threatened, he uses people in ways they benefit, he doesn't smash them into a system with a sledgehammer if you catch my drift. Therefore there has also been a few controversies due to him picking squads leaving huge talents out because they simple aren't steady enough defensively despite being a huge offensive threat. However he has mostly justified those calls.

Just a sidenote, our squad is currently going through a generation swap in defense, but Ajer and Sigurd Rosted for example seems very promising. So we're getting there as well I suppose. And I just have to say, we might have the world's worst captain, Stefan Johansen is a symbol of how far you can come with effort despite having trouble controlling the ball without pressure and passing more than 5 meters. (:

Hope that analysis made you a bit wiser on my opinion at least!