Norway national football team: results and stats

3:2

Norway beat Senegal 3-2 in a group-stage match where all five goals arrived between the 43rd and 90th minutes.

1:2

No late Norwegian equaliser arrived, despite the score remaining open long enough for one to be expected; instead, Bellingham struck at 93 to turn England’s modest superiority into a 1:2 result.

1:2

Strange nights linger. Brazil finished first in Group C on 7 points and Norway went through behind them on 6, yet the scoreboard belonged to Norway and the underlying picture leaned the other way, which is why this 1:2 will sit awkwardly long after the table has been filed away.

1:2

Ivory Coast took a corner roughly every six minutes and lost anyway. Norway needed nine shots — eight from inside the box — to build 2.02 xG and win 2:1. Volume met precision, and precision paid.

1:4

1.69 to 1.31. That was the expected-goals split in Oslo, and Norway sat on the better side of it. The scoreboard still read 1:4 for France. At this gap between the two xG totals, a model built on independent Poisson scoring puts the odds of this exact outcome at roughly 4 percent — which is why the crime index lands at 91. Losing with the better xG number isn't rare on its own; it happens to almost every side in the tournament sooner or later. What's rare is the size of the gap: a three-goal margin running against the expected-goals lean shows up far less often than a one-goal margin doing the same.

1:4

Norway beat Iraq 4-1 in the group stage, backing up the win with an xG reading of 2.52 to 0.8.