6-0 at half time and 8-0 after 90 minutes has made many Norway question their national team and perhaps most of all Martin Sjögren.
TV2's expert and former national team player Solveig Gulbrandsen, with 184 international caps, is hard on the Swede.
- What I'm most pissed off about is that he does not take it.
The players are simply thrown under the bus.
When we are down 0-2, something must be done from the sidelines.
It is 0-2 and it is still possible to make something of the match.
But here you sit down and do nothing, says Gulbrandsen to TV2.
In the newspaper VG, columnist Trond Johannessen has similar thoughts.
He questions whether Sjögren can continue as national team captain and writes the following:
“What does the union really think now?
Sjögren has extended his contract over next summer's WC, something that not everyone agreed on.
Now the quarterfinals are a minimum requirement, then it remains to be seen what it looks like.
0-8 Sjögren never gets rid of ".
After the match, it was a resigned Martin Sjögren who answered questions.
He told SVT Sport that he suffered with the players and felt a little helpless.
Then he had to respond to the criticism:
- It is always such a question, when to pull the emergency brake.
We chose to do it during the break, some adjustments were needed.
It's pretty hard to make yourself heard out there, so we needed a longer stop for that.
So in retrospect, maybe we should have done it even earlier.
However, we do not know what the outcome would have been, we concede two goals in the second half even though we are parked outside our own penalty area.
It's always easy to be hindsight, he said.