He will now be preparing to come up against his teammates Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es and Gabriel Martinelli when Norway face Brazil at 9pm UK time on Sunday, July 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is difficult to put into words, really,\u201d Odegaard said. \u201cA fantastic feeling. Everything we have been through, and seeing the steps we have taken, what we do on the pitch against a very, very good team, going through in the World Cup, playing a good game, celebrating with our fans, the whole country behind us. It doesn\u2019t get much better than that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is crazy to see all the pictures from Norway and all the support, the engagement and the celebration. We have dreamed of days like this since we were very small. We have seen pictures from when Norway beat Brazil and heard stories about it, and now we are writing our own history.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrazil have a really good team, a lot of good players. It is going to be a tough, tough test for us. I know a few of them from Arsenal, top players, and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing them. Hopefully we can give them a good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
William Saliba is also through to the next round with France (against Paraguay at 10pm on Saturday) after they put three past Sweden without reply, meaning Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 tournament has come to an end.<\/p>\n Two goals from Kylian Mbappe and one from Bradley Barcola saw the French through in style, with our Wilo helping the nation to a clean sheet by winning 100% of his aerial duels.<\/p>\n There will also be no more World Cup football for Piero Hincapie as Ecuador were beaten 2-0 by Mexico overnight. Our defender was shown a late red card for covering his mouth following an altercation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Martin Odegaard provided an assist for the opening goal of the game, scored by Antonio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}