“Hopefully, he will have a very big impact. Hopefully, we can continue to give him chances, and if you give Erling chances, he has a tendency to score. The players around him have grown because of that. So they have got more confidence in themselves,” he told reporters as per Reuters.
Norway kick off their World Cup campaign at the New England Patriots’ stadium in the suburbs of Boston against an Iraq side that qualified for the tournament.
Norway enjoyed a dominant qualification campaign, winning all eight of their matches and scoring 37 goals in the process.