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UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS GSP - Nicosia Monday 19 November 2018 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Cyprus Group C3 - Matchday 6 Norway Last updated 19/11/2018 10:46CET Previous meetings 2 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Legend 13 1 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Nations League Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 06/09/2018 GS-FT Norway - Cyprus 2-0 Oslo Johansen 21, 42 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached T. Elyounoussi 43, 06/09/2013 QR (GS) Norway - Cyprus 2-0 Oslo King 66 Aloneftis 42; Hangeland 44, T. 16/10/2012 QR (GS) Cyprus - Norway 1-3 Larnaca Elyounoussi 81 (P), King 83 UEFA EURO 2012 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Pedersen 25, Carew 11/10/2011 QR (GS) Norway - Cyprus 3-1 Oslo 34, Høgli 65; Okkas 42 Okkas 58; John Arne 08/10/2010 QR (GS) Cyprus - Norway 1-2 Larnaca Riise 2, Carew 42 EURO '92 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Lydersen 49, Dahlum 01/05/1991 PR (GS) Norway - Cyprus 3-0 Oslo 65, Sørloth 90 Sørloth 39, Bohinen 14/11/1990 PR (GS) Cyprus - Norway 0-3 Nicosia 50, Brandhaug 64 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Osvold 16, Sørloth 34, 21/05/1989 QR (GS) Norway - Cyprus 3-1 Oslo Bratseth 35; Koliantris 44 Sørloth 57, 78, Osvold 02/11/1988 QR (GS) Cyprus - Norway 0-3 Limassol 90 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Total Cyprus 4 0 0 4 4 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 10 0 0 10 4 26 2 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Norway 4 4 0 0 4 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 10 0 0 26 4 3 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Squad list Cyprus League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Kostas Panayi 08/10/1994 24 Omonia - 4 0 Alki 12 Urko Pardo 28/01/1983 35 - 1 0 Oroklini AEK 22 Andreas Christodoulou 26/03/1997 21 - 0 0 Larnaca Defenders 2 Antreas Karo 09/09/1996 22 Pafos - 0 0 3 Nicholas Ioannou 10/11/1995 23 APOEL - 5 0 4 Giorgos Merkis 30/07/1984 34 APOEL - 5 0 5 Valentinos Sielis 01/03/1990 28 Gangwon - 1 0 13 Ioannis Kousoulos 14/06/1996 22 Omonia - 5 0 17 Christos Wheeler 29/06/1997 21 AEL - 0 0 Midfielders 6 Antreas Makris 27/11/1995 22 APOEL - 1 0 7 George Efrem 05/07/1989 29 APOEL - 3 0 8 Chambos Kyriakou 09/02/1995 23 Apollon - 3 0 10 Giannis Hadjivasili 26/04/1990 28 Doxa - 0 0 11 Andreas Avraam 06/06/1987 31 AEL - 3 0 AEK 14 Vincent Laban 09/09/1984 34 - 0 0 Larnaca 16 Gerasimos Fylaktou 24/07/1991 27 Ermis - 0 0 18 Kostakis Artymatas 15/04/1993 25 APOEL - 5 0 Standard 19 Kostas Laifis 19/05/1993 25 - 4 0 Liège 20 Grigoris Kastanos 30/01/1998 20 Juventus - 4 1 21 Vasilios Papafotis 10/08/1995 23 Doxa - 1 0 23 Georgios Economides 10/04/1990 28 Anorthosis - 0 0 Forwards AEK 9 Onisiforos Roushias 15/07/1992 26 - 3 0 Larnaca 15 Panagiotis Zachariou 26/02/1996 22 Pafos - 1 1 Coach - Ran Ben Simon 28/11/1970 47 - 5 0 4 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Norway League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Rune Jarstein 29/09/1984 34 Hertha - 5 0 12 Ørjan Nyland 10/09/1990 28 Aston Villa - 0 0 22 Sten Grytebust 25/10/1989 29 OB - 0 0 Defenders 2 Birger Meling 17/12/1994 23 Rosenborg - 2 0 3 Even Hovland 14/02/1989 29 Rosenborg - 1 0 4 Tore Reginiussen 10/04/1986 32 Rosenborg - 0 0 5 Sigurd Rosted 22/07/1994 24 Gent - 3 0 13 Haitam Aleesami 31/07/1991 27 Palermo - 3 0 14 Omar Elabdellaoui 05/12/1991 26 Olympiacos - 5 0 16 Jonas Svensson 06/03/1993 25 AZ - 0 0 17 Martin Linnes 20/09/1991 27 Galatasaray - 1 0 Midfielders 6 Håvard Nordtveit 21/06/1990 28 Hoffenheim - 4 0 8 Stefan Johansen 08/01/1991 27 Fulham - 5 2 15 Sander Berge 14/02/1998 20 Genk - 2 0 18 Ole Selnæs 07/07/1994 24 St-Étienne - 5 1 19 Markus Henriksen 25/07/1992 26 Hull - 5 0 20 Martin Ødegaard 17/12/1998 19 Vitesse - 1 0 23 Iver Fossum 15/07/1996 22 Hannover - 4 0 Forwards 7 Ola Kamara 15/10/1989 29 LA Galaxy - 1 0 Crystal 9 Alexander Sørloth 05/12/1995 22 - 2 0 Palace 10 Tarik Elyounoussi 23/02/1988 30 AIK - 4 0 11 Mohamed Elyounoussi 04/08/1994 24 Southampton - 5 1 21 Bjorn Johnsen 06/11/1991 27 AZ - 4 1 Coach - Lars Lagerbäck 16/07/1948 70 - 5 0 5 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Head coach Ran Ben Shimon Date of birth: 28 November 1970 Nationality: Israeli Playing career: Maccabi Petach-Tikva, Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Petach-Tikva, Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv Coaching career: Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Kiryat Shmona (twice), Maccabi Tel-Aviv, AEK Larnaca, Hapoel Tel-Aviv, Maccabi Petach-Tikva, Beitar Jerusalem, Ashdod, Cyprus • Capped 34 times as a defender for Israel, Ben Shimon spent much of his career with home-town clubs Maccabi Petach-Tikva and Hapoel Petach-Tikva, but was perhaps in his prime during a six-year spell at Hapoel Haifa, during which he won the 1998/99 Israeli championship – the club's first league title. • After hanging up his boots in 2003 following a stint at Bnei Yehuda, Ben Shimon was in charge of Maccabi Tel-Aviv's youth teams, taking his first senior jobs in the second tier with Hapoel Haifa and then Kiryat Shmona, whom he led to promotion in his first campaign at the helm. • Briefly in the Maccabi Tel-Aviv hot seat in 2008, he guided Kiryat Shmona to another promotion after rejoining them in 2009, then masterminded their shock title success of 2011/12. He moved abroad for the first time in 2012 to coach Cypriot club AEK Larnaca, earning a third-placed finish in his sole season in command. • Returning to Israel in 2013, he subsequently held the reins at Hapoel Tel-Aviv, Maccabi Petach-Tikva, Beitar Jerusalem and – in 2016/17 – Ashdod. • Ben Shimon accepted the Cyprus post in July 2017, filling the void left by Christakis Christoforou's departure, and the following month oversaw a memorable 3-2 home win against Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Lars Lagerbäck Date of birth: 16 July 1948 Nationality: Swedish Playing career: Alby, Gimonäs Coaching career: Kilafors, Arbrå, Hudiksvalls, Sweden (youth sides), Sweden, Nigeria, Iceland, Norway • A lower-league player, Lagerbäck began his coaching career in 1977 with Kilafors, joining the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) as a youth coach after spells with two other modest club sides Arbrå and Hudiksvall. Coached the national Under-21 and B teams until Tommy Söderberg took him on as his assistant with the senior national squad in 1998. • Söderberg and Lagerbäck managed Sweden in tandem from 2000, reaching UEFA EURO 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2004; following Söderberg's departure, Lagerbäck took the troops to the 2006 World Cup and UEFA EURO 2008 single-handed. • Stepped down after failing to lead Sweden to the 2010 World Cup finals, but ended up travelling to that tournament as coach of Nigeria. • Appointed Iceland boss in October 2011, he steered the side to the 2014 World Cup play-offs where they lost to Croatia. Agreed a new contract that would mean he handed over the reins to assistant Heimir Hallgrímsson at the end of the UEFA EURO 2016 campaign – and promptly guided Iceland to their first ever major tournament. • Even better was to follow as Iceland knocked out England en route to reaching the quarter-finals, where they lost to France, and in February 2017 Lagerbäck came out of retirement to take over as coach of Norway, his new side picking up ten points from their six 2018 World Cup qualifiers under his watch. 6 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Match officials Referee István Vad (HUN) Assistant referees Istvan Albert (HUN) , Peter Berettyán (HUN) Additional assistant referees Ferenc Karakó (HUN) , Jozsef Erdos (HUN) Fourth official Theodoros Georgiou (HUN) UEFA Delegate Kieran O'connor (WAL) UEFA Referee observer Stephen Lodge (ENG) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches István Vad 30/05/1979 0 76 UEFA Nations League matches between the two teams No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 30/08/2007 UEL 2QR Vålerenga Fotball FK Ekranas 6-0 Oslo 27/07/2010 UCL 3QR AC Omonia FC Salzburg 1-1 Nicosia 08/11/2012 UEL GS Molde FK FCSB 1-2 Molde 11/10/2013 WC QR Iceland Cyprus 2-0 Reykjavik 28/11/2013 UEL GS APOEL FC Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 0-0 Nicosia 10/12/2015 UEL GS APOEL FC AC Sparta Praha 1-3 Nicosia 7 Cyprus - Norway Monday 19 November 2018 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit GSP, Nicosia Competition facts What is the background to the UEFA Nations League? The rejuvenation of national team football – and the UEFA Nations League – stems from the desire of UEFA and its 55 member associations to improve the quality and standing of national team football.