Bodø/Glimt boss reacts to heavy defeat at Alvalade: Sporting are a... | OneFootball

The coach of Bodø/Glimt, Kjetil Knutsen, lamented his team's defeat, who had a historic run in the Champions League but fell at Alvalade, at the hands of Sporting, after suffering a thrashing (5-0), having won 3-0 in the first leg in Norway.

"My job is to try to explain what happened here. We had a fantastic journey, but then we came onto this pitch to play a match, and it seemed to me that we were playing for the opportunity of a lifetime. And that opportunity became too big for us," he began by saying.

"Sporting's team was perfect in everything, while we were thinking about the consequences from the very first touch of the ball. And that made our team passive. I can't quite understand what happened, but we rarely managed to play well. We were very far from our identity and from what we should have been here," emphasized the Norwegian coach.

"I said that Sporting was risking everything and we were passive on the field, waiting for something to go our way. We weren't able to hurt the opponent. We didn't have the energy needed to get into the game, we were too apathetic," he said.

"Sporting is an excellent team tactically and they were prepared for everything today. They are a really strong team. The distances between players, the distances they cover running, the way they exploited our defense… It was a top-level performance," he concluded.

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