The next big day in Norwegian football comes on May 1st when Bodø/Glimt for the first Norwegian club plays the Europa League semi-finals. The first semi-final is played at Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium which, with a capacity of 62,850, is the third largest in England.
Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium, which was completed during the corona pandemic, cost a whopping £1.2 billion, about NOK 16.6 billion to build. Big difference to Aspmyra Stadium, which is the arena for Sunday’s match between Bodø/Glimt and KFUM Oslo.
Aspmyra, which has a capacity of 8,270 seats, was opened in 1966 and was ready for the city’s 150th anniversary and Bodø/Glimt’s 50th anniversary.
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Bodø/Glimt are in the Europa League semi-finals after beating another giant of European football, Lazio.
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Tottenham, who have already been named winners by the English press, point more towards a final that they are sure will be between Manchester United (who face Athletic Bilbao) and Totteham. – Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou is not so sure, he knows Bodø/Glimt well from the “old days”
When asked if he will save the best players when Tottenham face Liverpool on Sunday, Postecoglou replied: “The big game will come on Thursday.” If anyone knows how big the task will be to beat a supposed football mosquito from Norway, it is the Tottenham coach.
“I obviously have a history with Bodø,” the Spurs coach says according to The Herold.
And the history with Glimt is something the Australian would rather repress. As Celtic coach, Ange Postecoglou suffered a bang against Bodø/Glimt in the Conference League three years ago, with a painful 1-5 defeat on aggregate against the yellow shirts.
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The Tottenham coach also remembers well the statement of a cursing Jose Mourinho after being ridiculed with Roma at Aspmyra
“I remember they beat Roma at home, and Mourinho talked about how difficult it was to play there,” Postecoglou continues.
It shines from Ange Postecoglou that he knows it will be tough, tough against Bodø/Glimt and Kjetil Knutsen, especially at Aspmyra. Even though the snowy weather may have subsided.
Tottenham star Son could be back for the semi-final against Bodø/Glimt
Korean Son Heung-min is back in training after several weeks on the sidelines, and Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou now gives hope that the star can return for the semi-final matches against Bodø/Glimt. “We’ll see. This was the first time he trained on grass and he said it felt better,” Postecoglou said at a press conference when asked directly about Son’s possible comeback against Glimt.
Son has not played for Tottenham since the first leg of the Europa League quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt on April 10.
He will not be ready for this weekend’s Premier League clash against Liverpool at Anfield, but the manager’s statements suggest that he could be ready for the first semi-final match against Bodø/Glimt.
The first semi-final will be played at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on 1 May, while the second leg will be at Aspmyra in Bodø on 8 May.
Extreme Ticket Hunting
There has been a huge demand for tickets to the match in Bodø. When Glimt put out the last 480 tickets for the return leg on Friday, there were huge digital queues and quickly sold out.
“This is absolutely crazy. We have never experienced greater pressure on ticket sales. It feels like the whole of Bodø is trying to get hold of tickets, said Glimt’s media manager Simen Pedersen to TV 2.
We in Sporten.com are looking forward to it and we are thinking of raking in the garden, going on a train and watching Bodø/Glimt run over Tottenham.
