Anyway, I stabbed myself with the knife by accident now when I cut onions while watching the game (not deep, just a wee bit of blood), so I know I am alive and that this is actually happening. It should not be happening, because if this result stands, one of the world’s best teams (Roman Legion) migth actually get kicked out by Asterix here. Internazionale is a super, super team, after all.
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3-1 Full Time.
Not sure what to say really other than it being spectacular. I don’t really remember a similar tale, as surely this is far more remarkable rise over the last few years and cannot be compared to for instance Hellas winning the Euro on a one off.
Honestly pretty cool. Incidentally it is a Norwegian team that I know well, but it would have been awesome no matter where Glimt was from.
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Masculinity thread 
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Club Brugge 3-3 Atlético Madrid. AM was in front 0-2 and 2-3. Did not watch any matches, but seems like no one did any defending?
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Positive for us 
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Most accurate comment from today:
https://x.com/jessimceh/status/2024252492477759563
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You must be in dreamland right now I could not believe it when I saw MOTD. Good luck in the return leg!
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It’s quite funny and absurd, you are quite right about that !
Mind you, I am not truly a Bodø fan. I am just insanely impressed with their journey and happen to know the team relatively well.
When I was in the army, I was stationed up there. I did attend a couple of their games then. Not that they were this good then !
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Kjetil Knutsen is very amusing (the Glmit manager). He said to the Norwegian media that he was very unhappy with the team performance and that this was far from as good as against City, Madrid or Dortmund; but the Italian journalist sounds like she is struck to the earth by lightning when she hears him voice some disappointment 
Very amusing interview.
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It’s fantastic indeed. Well done. 
There have been other examples though. I can remember a team from Cyprus reaching the last eight, it was APOEL I think. Must have been ten years ago or so.
Let’s see if Glimt can achieve the same this year. 
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But that’s not comparable, mate (at least I don’t understand it) 
Not sure you understand Bodø’s journery tbh! I am hardly talking about this year alone
Googling also shows that APOEL has never been in the knock out stage in the Champions League.
I honestly think that with a comment like that, comparing Glimt with the most-winning Kypriotic team in history, you really don’t get how absurd this is. You should read about Glimt really.
It’s comparable in the sense that both clubs come from really small European leagues and have mini-budgets compared to the usual heavyweights.
And yeah, APOEL made it to the last eight, I’ve found it now. Real Madrid beat them in the quarters. It was in 2012.
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I thought APOEL was in the UEFA league in final 8, but doesn’t matter. It wasn’t what I was talking about.
I don’t think we are on the same wave-lenght here. You speak of a minnow going deep in the champion league once, I speak of a journery unlike what football has seen for many decades. We are not talking about the same thing at all.
This is what I am talking about. But agree APOEL’s story is amazing, but I doubt there are only 40 000 people in Nicosia. I also doubt that the budget of APOEL was anywhwere close to as low as Bodø’s when they started their rise, as APOEL (I know it wasn’t). Again, there isn’t a rich uncle in Bodø. It’s literally a just a little team from a little town, they have made every penny they now had from sports results alone.
And that was why I didn’t get your comparsion
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Yeah, APOEL was surely given financial ressources by rich people in Cyprus. And I checked, Nicosia has a population of more than 400k. If there is no sugar-daddy to finance Bodø, and no big industrial company, then the achievement is indeed amazing. Point taken.
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It’s just such a rare of event in football. If is unheard of that you can go from nothing to journey first throught the conference league and do well, then through the Europa league the year after and then the champions league. They were after in the Norwegian second division in 2017, then 17th place and surviving in the top divison the year after, and then 2nd and then winning the league and the European adventure started.
It’s just so absurd that this is possible without money, when you have to sell all your best players every year (only now, Bodø keeps players like Høgh, as previous seasons all stars were sold for profit).
So yeah, the journey is insane and very much appeals to any sports romantic
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Gutted I wasn’t watching this yesterday.
As a sports fan I love a David v Goliath situation, where the underdog shines. Really pleased for you @Magnus
I hope they finish the job in Italy next week.
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ESPN FC…
Bodo/Glimt has only gotten to play THREE competitive matches in 2026 since their league season ended in November in order to avoid Norway’s peak winter. The three games have come against Europe’s GIANTS, Man City, Atletico Madrid AND Inter Milan. This team from of a town of just 54,000 people is currently doing the unthinkable. A story that anything is possible in this sport ! 
(https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t15/1/16/1f49b.png)
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Leverkusen lost
Dortmund 2-2
Juventus lost
Real lost
Galatasaray lost
They all were involved in the CL playoff in midweek.
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First game of round 16, do we play home or away vs Atletico Madrid?