Bodo/Glimt's historic run in the Champions League was brought to an end by a Sporting side who superbly battled back from a three-goal first-leg deficit to win in extra-time and reach the quarter-finals for the first time.
2025/2026 UEFA Champions League
5 (5)-0 (3)
Match Report:
Norwegians Bodo/Glimt had been one of the stories of this season's competition having become the first team from their country to reach the knockouts on their debut appearance, having beaten last year's finalists Inter Milan in the play-offs.
They continued their dream run by beating Sporting 3-0 in the first leg of this tie but knew they faced a more difficult task in Portugal.
So it proved as the Bodo goal was peppered with shots in the first half before Sporting made the breakthrough when Goncalo Inacio headed in.
The visitors spent much of the first 45 minutes defending but did hit the woodwork through Odin Bjortuft's header from their first corner of the game.
But Sporting ensured there would be a nervous final 30 minutes when Luis Suarez squared for Pedro Goncalves to fire into the roof of the net and move Sporting to within one goal of levelling the tie.
From then on it was wave after wave of Sporting attacks and they levelled the tie on aggregate when Suarez coolly scored from the penalty spot after Fredrik Bjorkan was adjudged to have handled the ball after a review by the video assistant referee.
Sporting pushed for a winner in normal time and Nuno Santos struck the base of the post with a shot from outside the box.
But while extra-time was needed, Sporting struck in the 92nd minute when Maxi Araujo drove in to put the hosts ahead on aggregate, before Rafael Nel's late finish sealed the comeback win and ended Bodo/Glimt's fairytale Champions League run.
Match Events:
0' Kick off
6' Yellow Card! Didrik Blomberg(Bodo Glimt) is shown a yellow card for a bad fowl
34' GOAL! Goncalo Inacio(Sporting CP) header from the centre of the box
45+2' First Half ends, Sporting CP 1, Bodo Glimt 0
45' Second Half starts
46' Yellow Card! Morten Hijulmand(Sporting CP) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul
61' GOAL! Sporting CP 2, Bodo Glimt 0. Pote(Sporting CP) left footed shot from the centre of the box
64' Substution: Zeno Debast on, Eduardo Quaresma off
68' Yellow Card! Kasper Hogh(Bodo Glimt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul
68' Substitutions: Nuno Santos on, Pote off; Daniel Braganca on, Hidemasa Morita off
74' Yellow Card! Ivan Fresnedais shown a yellow card for a bad foul.
78' GOAL! Sporting CP 3, Bodo Glimt 0. Luis Suarez converts the penalty with a right footed shot
90+6' Regular time ends, Sporting CP 3, Bodo Glimt 0.
90' First Half Extra Time begins
92' GOAL! Maxi Araujo left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner
104' Yellow Card! Nuno Santos(Sporting CP) is shown the yellow card
105' +3' Daniel Bassi(Bodo/Glimt) is shown the yellow card
105' Second Half begins
118' Yellow Card! Ulrik Saltnes (Sporting CP) is shown a yellow card for a bad foul
120'+1' GOAL! Rafael Nel(Sporting CP) right footed shot from the right side of the box
120'+5' Second Half Extra Time ends, Sporting CP 5, Bodo Glimt 0
Line-ups
Sporting CP XI: Rui Silva, Luis Suárez, Francisco Trincão, Pedro Gonçalves, Hidemasa Morita, Maxi Araújo, Morten Hjulmand, Geny Catamo, Eduardo Quaresma, Gonçalo Inácio, Iván Fresneda
Subs: Nuno Santos, João Virgínia, Daniel Bragança, Georgios Vagiannidis, Souleymane Faye, Zeno Debast, Ousmane Diomande, Diego Callai, Rafael Nel, Mauro Couto, João Simões, Flávio Gonçalves
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, August Mikkelsen, Isak Dybvik Määttä, Sondre Auklend, Anders Klynge, Magnus Riisnæs, Daniel Bassi, Isak Sjong, Villads Nielsen