This article contains adult content that may be inappropriate for minors. Please confirm that you are 18 years or older to continue. This article contains images or details that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. Bodo/Glimt achieved a historic feat by eliminating Inter, last season's finalist, from the UEFA Champions League with an aggregate score of 5-2, securing a place in the knockout stage of the competition. The 2-1 victory at the Giuseppe Meazza, in front of nearly 70,000 spectators, sealed their qualification and generated a wave of euphoria. The players of Bodo/Glimt could hardly believe what they had accomplished. "It's unbelievable," confessed Odin Bjortuft. Jens Petter Hauge, who scored the first goal in Milan, described the feeling as "almost unreal." "We are among the last teams in the tournament. It will be incredibly exciting to see what the next two matches will bring," he said, as quoted by the BBC. The second leg in Italy was tense, with the score remaining 0-0 until the 57th minute. It was then that Jens Petter Hauge took advantage of a glaring error from Inter's defense to open the scoring. Later, a pass from Hauge allowed Hakon Evjen to make it 2-0, in a move described as a "dream goal" that led many Italian fans to leave the stadium prematurely. Inter managed to reduce the deficit through Alessandro Bastoni, but the final score of 2-1 confirmed the Norwegian superiority in the tie. It is worth noting that Bodo/Glimt had already won at home, at Aspmyra, becoming the first Norwegian team to win a knockout match in the UEFA Champions League, a feat they repeated on Italian soil. With this qualification, Bodo/Glimt is now awaiting the draw for the round of 16, which will take place next Friday, where they will face Sporting or Manchester City. "Sporting or Manchester City? We have to see what the draw will say and then we will prepare for those matches," said Jens Petter Hauge, adding: "I am so proud of the group, the coaches, the medical team, we are all in this together. We believe a lot in our project. We gained a lot of experience in these situations last season in the Europa League."
Sporting Manchester City remains central to this story.
Sporting Manchester City remains central to this story.
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