Overview
Austria just destroyed Kazakhstan with a score of 4-0, thereby winning the first victory in this year's Nations League. With 4 points, the team of coach Ralf Rangnick has risen to second place in Group 3 of League B, equal on points with Slovenia but with a better goal difference.
Marcel Sabitzer has scored in both of his last two appearances for the national team and is expected to continue scoring.
Meanwhile, Norway bounced back from a disappointing goalless draw against Kazakhstan. They defeated Austria in the second match, then won 3-1 against Slovenia.
Currently, coach Stale Solbakken's team is still leading Group 3 of League B and has a wide open door to promotion to League A next season.
Norway's strength mainly comes from striker Erling Haaland. The Manchester City star has now scored 3 goals in the Nations League. With a double against Slovenia, Haaland also officially broke Jorgen Juve's record to become Norway's all-time leading scorer (34 goals).
Haaland's excellence helped the Nordic representative temporarily forget the sadness of missing Martin Odegaard in this training session due to injury.
At home a month ago, Norway beat Austria with Haaland scoring the winner. With their good form, Norway can completely defeat their opponents once again.
Austria have the upper hand when it comes to the overall head-to-head record between the two teams, having won seven of the previous 13 meetings.
Human resources situation
Austria will be without the trio of David Alaba, Kevin Danso and Maximilian Wober due to injuries in the match against Norway.
On the other side of the front line, Norway cannot call up captain Odegaard, who suffered an ankle injury last month.
Expected lineup:
Austria: Pentz, Posch, Querfeld, Lienhart, Prass, Seiwald, Laimer, Sabitzer, Schmid, Arnautovic, Baumgartner.
Norway: Nyland, Ryerson, Ostigard, Hanche-Olsen, Wolfe, Myhre, Berg, Berge, Sorloth, Nusa, Haaland.
The match between Austria and Norway takes place at 1:45 a.m. on October 14 (Vietnam time).
