The last time we saw Norway at a European Championship, they were traipsing off a pitch in the small Dutch city of Deventer, consigned to a disastrous early exit by a 1-0 defeat to Denmark that rounded off a rancid group stage campaign in which they had failed to score a goal, let alone muster a point.
From the moment the draw for this summer’s edition was made, they seemed unlikely to face a similar issue and so it proved as, having put 12 past Northern Ireland unanswered across two games in qualifying, they hammered the major tournament debutants 4-1 to get their campaign off to a winning start.
