Match Day LIVE
Match Week – Second Leg Playoff tie
UEFA Champions League .
Inter Milan of Italy vs Bodo/Glimt of Norway .
Venue – Stadio Giuseppe Meezza , San Siro , Milan .
Date – February 24, 2026.
Time- 8.00 pm .
European giants ,and three times winners of the Uefa Champions, Inter Milan welcomes , Bodo /Glimt of Norway at the stadio Giueseepe Meezza , San Siro , Italy in a make or mar match in the Uefa Champions play off second leg , Tuesday .
After falling like pack of cards 3-1 to the Norwegians at away , they must win today at home to scale through to the round of 16 stage of this years champions league , 2025/2026 .
Setting up a Tuesday night clash , at San Siro , Bodo/Glimt took a giant stride beat Inter Milan 3-1 , taking a giant stride towards the last 16 teams , where they are to meet Colossus , Manchester City or Sporting Lisbon of Portugal .
Their visit to the Norwegian , Aspmyra Stadium ,for the first leg , Inter Milan womblled and fumbled and lost 3-1 when they failed to cope with the plastic pitch as well as the sub zero weather conditions in the Scandinavian country plus a fluent and brilliant home side on the chilly night in Norway .
Inter Milan twice got to the finals of the last three UEFA Champions League campaigns , while their visitors , Bodo/Glimt lost out during the league group phases., but the Sondre Fet with their well calculated 16 pass move out the home lads infiont ahead of the visitors ,while Francesco Pio Exposito s leveler could not bring releif to the Inter giants as their efforts were later eclipsed by second half strikes of Jens Peter Hauge and Kasper High put Bodo/Glimt infrint to wrap up the win and put Inter Milan super run of results on the road to a stop.
The Nezazzuris have had a superb run of form with four wins in the group League phase games and only conceding just one goal before losing three back to back
A 2010 treble winner with Inter Milan and Coach , Romanian born ,former National Team Captain , Cristian Chivu s managerial position has come under serious scrutiny particularly after benching some key players in Northern Norway
Over the years , the Nezazzuris have excelled in previous two legged ties apart from the finals , but now the story line is different ,they have won 10 and lost two out of the 16 champions league knockout matches ,
They have an uphill task tonight as they have only won with two goals out of six matches in their last 52 outings in the knockout stage , and have not won with more three goals in previous campaigns .
The only team to have won with a two goal away deficit was Liverpool in 2019 when they stunned Barcelona at Anfield with a resounding 3-1 , other eleven teams in similar position failed to progress beyond the group stage .
Though at the edge of an early exit from the champions league this season , but the Italians will find consolation in their solid footing in the Scudeto this season with a 10 points clear at the summit of Serie A and a recent seven sequence straight wins as well as their latest 2-0 humbling over the weekend in Lecce at away with goals from former Man United Star , Henrikh Mukhtarian and Manuel Akanji .
Bodo/Glimt was about hitting the exit door in this year’s champions league which is also their first champions league proper , before they surprised the football with world with emphatic wins on the road .
With an early poor outing during the group games proper , when they failed to win their first six matches , but won the last two 3-1 at home against Manchester City and 2-1 again Athletico Madrid , seizing the last spot in their last group games on a chaotic final match day
And yet another emphatic wins against Inter Milan at home , show their football skills and ,pukka play and they stand aloof as the first Norwegian club to pull three consecitive wins in top flight European competition .
And they are likely to be the first Ellltesreen side to progress from a knockout stage sicke Lillistrom did that in way back in 1987.
An added advantage to their kitty is enough rest they have had due to winter break , they will exploit this to good use against the Italian who have been buried in domestic league since their poor showing in Norway, so they are well rested ahead Tuesday clash against the Serie A giants , Inter Milan in Lombardy , Italy .
Their new sweat merchant , Kjesti Kunsten took over the team in 2018 with seires of success stories in European championship matches with wins against Porto , Celtic , Lazio and Roma .
They also reached he Europa Cup semi finals ,only to lose to eventual winners , Tottenham Hotspurs .
A lot has changed since Inter Milan pummelled them 7-1 on aggregate after the first leg . Inter Milan humbled then 5-0 in Milan , but the story might be different in this Tuesdays clash at the San Siro with Bodo/Glimt s top form status .
Predictions .
The Italians may have an edge over Bodo on their home turf where they are known for their free scoring rolls and possibly get the job done before the end of hostilities .
But Bodo is likley to score a goal or more to settle scores on equal basis and we may have an extra time with a long night of a long stretched pemalty shootout if a winner fails to emerge at the end of hostilities in Lombardy , Italy .
Inter Milan 3-1 Bodo/Flint Or 3-0
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