Solbakken sets friendship with Solskjaer aside to plot United downfall | Malay Mail

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COLOGNE, Aug 10 — Stale Solbakken will set aside his friendship with fellow former Norway international team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer when FC Copenhagen face Manchester United in the Europa League quarter-finals today. Solbakken at 52 is five years older than Solskjaer but they were in the...

Monday, 10 Aug 2020 07:42 AM MYT

Solbakken at 52 is five years older than Solskjaer but they were in the Norway side that were once ranked number two in the world in the 1990s. Solbakken guided Copenhagen to a 1-0 win over United — Solskjaer was in the team — in the 2006 Champions League group stage.“We are friends from the national team in the 90s, where Norway was the second-best team in the world,” said Solbakken at his eve of match press conference.

Solbakken — who is back in Cologne where he coached the club for one season before a brief sojourn with another of the Europa League quarter-finalists Wolverhampton Wanderers — would not be drawn as to whether he or Solskjaer was a better manager.

 

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