Bodo Glimt 3-1 Man City: 10-men City stunned by hosts as Høgh and Hauge score

Bodo Glimt produced one of the UEFA Champions League's most famous results as they beat English opposition for the first time ever by downing Manchester City 3-1.

Match Report

On an artificial pitch in freezing Norwegian temperatures and on the back of Saturday‘s Manchester Derby defeat, this game had a banana skin feel to it for City. Smarting from their defeat to United, City started brightly and on the offensive, creating a gilt-edged opportunity inside the opening 10 minutes when the unmarked Max Alleyne incredibly headed Phil Foden’s corner over from six yards. It was a miss that ultimately proved costly, as against the run of play, Glimt took a shock lead. Ole Didrik Blomberg proved to be influential to the opener, standing up an inch-perfect cross, which Kasper Høgh powered in at the far post. 

Visibly shell-shocked by falling behind, City crumbled and fell two behind just moments later. It was the same duo who combined once more, with Blomberg ghosting in behind and squaring to afford Høgh the simple task of finding the bottom corner. City’s struggles were perhaps best encapsulated shortly before HT when a deep corner was kept alive by Rodri at the far post, and when the ball seemingly landed favourably for Erling Haaland, the Norwegian was on his heels, missing a glorious chance to halve the deficit before the break.

Guardiola surprisingly decided against making changes at the break, and it looked to be a fatal decision when the hosts had the ball in the net for the third time soon after the restart. It was Håkon Evjen who turned the ball home, but he did so from an offside position, taking the ball away from the onside Høgh, who was on a hat-trick and destined to score behind him. Incredibly, that was nothing more than a reprieve for City, who soon found themselves three down when a stunning solo strike from Jens Petter Hauge nestled in the top corner. City at least managed to snatch an instant response through Rayan Cherki, but their task was complicated further when Rodri was dismissed for two yellow cards in the space of 58 seconds just moments later.

A frantic period continued as Hauge struck the crossbar, shortly before Høgh was again denied his hat-trick goal by an offside flag. The task should’ve been straightforward from there on for the Norwegian side, and it proved to be that way as they were largely untroubled and could have added a fourth in stoppage time when Gianluigi Donnarumma denied Andreas Helmersen from a one-on-one position. Nonetheless, three points fires Glimt firmly into play-off contention ahead of the final matchday. City, meanwhile, are now likely to head into matchday eight sitting outside of the top eight. 

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

5' Cherki turns in the box and hits low but Haikin turns behind with his legs

22' GOAL! Høgh heads the ball in to put hosts in lead! Bodo Glimt 1-0 Man City

24' GOAL! Kasper Høgh doubles the lead for hosts! Bodo Glimt 2-0 Man City

29' Kasper Hogh's effort is saved by the keeper before he is ruled offside

36' Rodri heads the ball towards the goal following a corner, but it goes wide

38' Hauge sprints in behind the defence and lays the ball off to Hogh to shoot wide

45' Bodo Glimt have the ball in the net but it is ruled offside!

49' Reijnders strikes low inside the box but it goes wide of the left post

58' GOAL! Hauge fires the ball into the top right corner! Bodo Glimt 3-0 Man City

60' GOAL! Cherki slots the ball into the bottom corner! Bodo Glimt 3-1 Man City

62' Red Card! Rodri pulls down his opponent and gets his second yellow card!

63' Hauge curls towards the top corner again but this one bounces back off the bar

65' Hogh scores a goal but there's an offside earlier in the move

86' O'Reilly rises highest to meet a cross but his header is saved

Line-ups

Bodo Glimt XI: Patrick Berg, Sondre Brunstad Fet, Jostein Gundersen, Nikita Haikin, Fredrik Bjørkan, Jens Petter Hauge, Håkon Evjen, Odin Bjørtuft, Kasper Høgh, Ole Didrik Blomberg, Fredrik Sjövold

Subs: Ulrik Saltnes, Haitam Aleesami, Andreas Helmersen, Julian Faye Lund, Isak Dybvik Määttä, Sondre Auklend, Anders Klynge, Magnus Riisnæs, Isak Sjong, Villads Nielsen, Hindrin Najah Chooly

Man City XI: Donnarumma, Rodri, Haaland, Foden, Reijnders, Rayan Aït-Nouri, Cherki, Lewis, Nico O'Reilly, Abdukodir Khusanov, Max Alleyne

Subs: Ake, Bettinelli, Omar Marmoush, James Trafford, Doku, Charlie Gray, Kian Noble, Stephen Mfuni, Divine Mukasa, T. Samba