With eyes on the second leg, Sporting cling to Bodø/Glimt’s past collapse | OneFootball

Sporting lost 3-0 to Bodø/Glimt in Norway and, as a result, to continue in the Champions League, they will have to beat the Nordic team by a four-goal margin at Alvalade or take the tie to penalties. In any case, the task will not be easy for the Lions.

The last time Bodø/Glimt lost by a four-goal margin in European competitions was in the 2021/2022 season. In the quarter-finals of that season’s Conference League, the Norwegians beat Roma 2-1 at home, but then suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat in Italy, which led to their elimination from the competition that would ultimately be won by the Italian side, then coached by José Mourinho.

In the match played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on April 14, 2022, Nicolò Zaniolo was the standout, scoring a hat trick in just 26 minutes (23', 29', and 49'), after Tammy Abraham, now at West Ham, had opened the scoring.

The resounding win was a ‘revenge’ for José Mourinho. In the same season, in a group stage match of the same competition, the Romans lost 6-1 in Norway. It was the biggest defeat of the Portuguese coach’s career—the current Benfica manager had never before lost a match conceding six goals.

It is worth remembering that Sporting. The match, counting for the second leg of this round of the Champions League against the Norwegian side, will be played at 17:45 at the Estádio José Alvalade.

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