No fear: Faroe Islands team boldly talks about victory over Lithuania Sports
The journalists barely arrived at the modern conference roads, where words that could become a warning to the Lithuanian team soon sounded.
The start of the League of Nations was not successful for both Lithuanians and future competitors.
The Lithuanian team went down to Luxembourg from 0: 2, and after a few times the hardest at home – 0: 6 capitulated against Turkey.
The Faroe Islands team also fell against the same rivals, but to a lesser extent 0: 4 against Turkey and 0: 1 against Luxembourg. True, in the last match, the Faroe Islands team finished 9 against 11.
About 50 thousand. The country with the best population is best known for its windy climate, green nature and strong winds, ahead of Lithuania in the FIFA ranking – 124 and 138 world teams will compete on Saturday.
“It’s the match again! Great! ”Smiled Håkan Ericson, a 62-year-old Swede training for the Faroe Islands national team.
Since 2019, the team-led specialist has made no secret of the fact that after the last match with Luxembourg, he gave his most important players a rest, and later did not drive them away during training.
“There will be more tactics today,” the Swede said.
15min When asked about the visible problem of the Lithuanian national team, he would like to take advantage of it, H. Erricson noted the line of defense and its formation often occurs, as well as the organization of the game.
“But very similar problems,” sighed the coach.
He noted that the result of Lithuania and the Faroe Islands in the League of Nations is identical so far. Both teams have 0 points each.
“We met with Lithuania last year in a friendly match (Lithuanians won 2: 1 – aut. Past.). “This is a different team than Turkey or Luxembourg, it is a physical team with fast national players in the attack,” said H. Ersson.
Asked what would be a positive result for his team on Saturday night, the specialist did not hesitate.
“Our attitude does not change – we always want to win. Speaking from the position of coach of the Faroe Islands, I will say nothing else – you have to win, there is no other way. I believe we can. We have to win, we always want that. Definitely satisfied with the draw, you will not win. 100 percent “, – H.Ericson did not hide his ambitions.
The two red cards received in the match against Luxembourg mean that the defender Rene Joensen and the defender Solvi Watnhamar cannot help the team in the match with Lithuania.
“First of all, we take it seriously,” the coach said. – We analyzed all the matches, we had good and bad moments, as always. Two red and one yellow. this does not happen in such a way that two players are expelled. We talked a lot about why this happened. We can’t say that nothing happened, but a squad of 23 players will have to be stretched by others, “said the Swede.
Naming possible ways to victory, the coach noted concentration and physicality.
“Whoever wins more duels will have one foot ahead. We will work on that, we need to be calm. The match with Luxembourg was not bad, the statistics say the same, but we didn’t have a chance. And that’s the hardest part in football. We are constantly working on that. If we improve it, we will definitely have a chance to win, “H. Erson concluded.