Stara Pazova.
Déjà-Vu. This has been experienced sometime before.
The Finnish women’s soccer team was difficult on Friday night at Stara Pazova, and finally the Helmarit, who was preparing for the Swiss European Championships, opened their big football year with a gigantic disappointment.
Eight of the FIFA-Ranking, Serbia, located below Finland, celebrated a 1-0 victory in Finland at the home field played at the Federation’s Football Center.
About one hundred and fifty spectators received a value for time – money cannot be talked about when about three quarters away from Belgrade, the capital of the capital, in a training center in the middle of the fields, got free in the match in the middle of the fields.
Loss was head coach Marko Saloranta During the coaching season, the first one Finland experiences in the world ranging against a weaker country.
Of course, preparation for a potential loss began immediately after the drawing when drumming in Serbia’s danger began.
Serbia has good results at home, such as draws last year against Scotland and Iceland. So does Finland: victory over Italy and Scotland and draws against Norway and Holland.
In the end, the home team did what was feared. The series of weak away products in Finland continued, even though it did not get caught in the framework.
Helmarit stayed at the keeper’s most beautiful hotel where you could spend your free time shopping for mink fur or admiring the tropical carp built in the lobby.
I dare say that the Serbian women’s national team does not enjoy similar conditions in their national team camps. In Balkans, the football played by women is in Finland compared to Finland.
Stara Pazova’s stadium may have resembled Eerikkilä’s Jari Litmanen Arena, but Nurmi was in good shape.
You can’t go behind the substrate, not even the judge. Not everyone would have whistled a penalty kick but Oona Siren contact Tijana to Filipovic gave it a chance.
Finland had more than 45 minutes of scoring and leading paint, but for the goal it got one shot in the whole match, not the only one of the dangerous goals.
Last year, Finland won only Montenegro on the away field, but otherwise met better teams.
Instead, it was difficult on the away field in the fall of 2023, in the first League of Women’s History, which Finland started from the B league.
In those away games, Croatia crashed 2-0, Slovakia fought in Trnava a flat game and the result was a 1-0 win against Romania. Free Let Tamminen Finland would have ended up in a draw in Bucharest.
On Friday, in Stara Pazova, Helmarit beat their heads on the wall again: seeming ball control is of no use if the direction is always down.
Serbia clogged the center well, and as Finland tried to push the Serbia off the sides by doubled attempts to double.
The head coach and the players were naturally disappointed.
Where Saloranta saw a lot of good things and defeated the poor finishing peak was Linda Sällström In his response, rage. The scoring sites could not be reached because it was not even tried.
– No paint is done by moving the ball, you have to try to create a threat. We didn’t even have any angles in the game, which tells us that there was not much pressure on, the frustrated Sällström summarized in the post -match interview.
Sällström, who lives behind the line behind the line, hardly received food.
Previous head coach Anna Signeul It was not known as a modern football professor: the long balls behind the lines in his era were Finland’s only weapon to attack.
At times, it was extremely frustrating to watch football played by Signeul, but on Friday there would have been an order for long balls.
However, only the lack of shifts was reminded of Signeul’s pearls: Finland made its first exchange in 67 minutes into the invasion Adelina Engman the defender Joanna Tynnilän. Ten minutes later Oona Sevenius ran in the opening half of a good time playing Sanni Franssi in place of.
However, no significant change or final ferry was seen. Serbia’s 2-0 goal was closer than the Helmari handicap.
On Tuesday, the changes will probably be forced, as the miserable evening was “crowned” by a credit hopper Natalia Kuika injury.
Kuika’s knee was sadly twisted in a harmless -looking situation and he linked to the bus with the canes.
Kuikka was not the only injured, as the goalkeeper who followed the bench on the bench also had a couple of fingers in the bus as he entered the bus. More information about the space of both is likely to be available at the weekend.
The list of Finnish injury list has already been sadly long: the number one striker Jutta Rantala and defender Elli Pikkujämsä are long -term patients, midfield engine Eveliina Summanen rehabilitates his thighs at least this national team window, and for most of last season’s ankle injury Catherine Kosola At least he recovered from the flu of the Serbia match.
Friday showed how feverishly Finland is needed back.
Summanen’s absence is a big setback, but he is likely to recover in the next national team window.
The lack of the best player in Finland, Natalia Kuika in spring and summer games would be a huge setback for the team, downright disaster.
The main goal of the summer, the European Championships in Switzerland, is still months. There is only one match behind the League of Nations.
There is still no reason to panic button, but Finland must be able to react better within the games.
Otherwise, in the summer, it is useless to dream of a place to follow, or even the point of the previous 2022 races in England – not to mention the League League’s group victory.
Namely, the dangerous Serbi will come up again.