Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt: the miracle of the season

Those who made Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt reach the Champions League today are nothing short of miraculous!

Bodo/Glimt made history today by beating Inter Milan 2-1 at San Siro to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in their history!

Can you imagine that Bodo/Glimt’s market value is only €56 million, meaning that they are an unknown team that no one has heard of, and yet they beat Inter, which is valued at €666 million, with a score of 5-2 on aggregate over two legs.

What a great achievement!

Imagine with me that Bodo/Glimt is participating in the Champions League for the first time in its history this year and in the first six games of the group stage, it only collected three points, meaning they were about to be eliminated from the tournament!

What happened was that Bodo/Glimt made a legendary comeback and won their last two matches against Manchester City and Atlético Madrid, advancing to the playoffs.

Today, they beat Inter and advanced to the quarterfinals.

It’s literally the miracle of the season.

Bodo/Glimt’s adventure in the Champions League is delightful, when an unknown team beats three giants and eliminates the runner-up of the last edition, we have to love the experience.

Bodo/Glimt has never won a match in the advanced stages of the Champions League.

To be more precise, throughout its history, it has never made it past the preliminary rounds, and any previous victories it has achieved were only during those rounds.

Even in the current edition, after the first six rounds, it had only managed to earn three points from three draws, which meant that clinically, it was leaving the group stage with almost no hope of qualifying.

But in the last two rounds,

it defeated Manchester City 3-1 in Norway

and defeated Atlético Madrid 🇪🇸 2-1 in Spain,

snatching the penultimate ticket to qualify for the play-offs.

They were in 23rd place, which meant that their play-off match was against Inter (9th place)

Naturally, it was a near-certain victory for last season’s runners-up against an obscure team that barely qualified for the play-offs with 9 points from 8 games!

The strange thing is that Bodo/Glimt managed to win the first leg at home 3-1, which is normal in the difficult Scandinavian winter conditions and on a pitch that seems to be heavy with blood!

What is surprising is that the obscure Norwegian team managed to win the return leg in the heart of Italy 2-1 against the European runners-up and leaders of the Italian league by 10 points and in front of 70,000 fans!

Bodo/Glimt may return to face Manchester City again in the round of 16, or they may face Sporting Lisbon, but in any case, it is an adventure worth following.

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