Haaland and Norwegian coach Solbakken apologize to Swiss for dreadful pitch conditions

[p]Swiss national team coach [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/yakin-murat/AyuXqwIS/"]Murat Yakin[/a] expressed concerns regarding the condition of the pitch already the day before the clash, describing it as having "holes everywhere" following the Norwegian winter.[/p][p][b]Yakin noted that the turf at Ullevaal Stadion was in poor shape, which was a concern for the team's technical style of play. Swiss broadcaster SRF on Tuesday evening noted that the surface could hardly be called "grass".[/b][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/haaland-erling/UmV9iQmE/"]Erling Haaland[/a] felt compelled to apologize for the poor conditions after the game. "The pitch simply wasn't good enough," he said to NRK.no. "The last time I played on a pitch like this was a couple of years ago in the Faroe Islands. But it wasn't even as bad as this."[/p][p][b]"The game wasn't destroyed, but not far from it, of course. [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/switzerland/rHJ2vy1B/"]Switzerland[/a], with respect to them, tries to play, but you see that they make some mistakes that they wouldn't have made if the pitch were good. So it's actually a bit positive for us that the pitch wasn't that good either, so that we could punish them, but it's not good. I said "sorry" to everyone, but this is simply not good enough."[/b][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/solbakken-stale/pxok8eTM/"]Solbakken[/a] also recognized that he had already apologized to Murat Yakin on Monday before the match.[/p]