00:00If Norway are to be a dark horse for this summer's World Cup, they'll need one player to be on
00:03top
00:04form, and it's not necessarily Erling Haaland. Sure, his goal-scoring form in European qualification
00:09dragged Norway back onto the grand international stage for the first time in 28 years, and with
00:14an absurd goal-to-game ratio for club and country, he arrives as the most feared finisher on the
00:18planet, but behind him is where the magic really happens, with Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard.
00:25He is the player in the Norwegian setup who possesses the press resistance, the vision,
00:29the spatial intelligence, and the control of tempo to draw position centre-backs out of
00:34the defensive line, and slide the precise vertical passes into the box that Haaland requires.
00:40Odegaard completely ran the show in European qualification, leading all players across
00:43the continent with 25 key passes and 12 total through balls. His joint high seven assists
00:48were lethal, with four of those direct assists served up on the plate for, you guessed it,
00:53Erling Haaland. Therefore, don't be surprised to see a reality play out where Norway make it far
00:58into the tournament's latter stages. Erling Haaland easily wins the golden boot as the tournament's
01:02top scorer, and Martin Odegaard walks away with the golden ball as the official best player
01:07player of the World Cup.
01:08The World Cup.
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