What in the hell happened? Kjetil Knutsen and the Glimt players were put back to school when Sporting showed a completely different side than the one at Aspmyra. It had to be decided in extra time, but the final score 5-0 to the Portuguese looked horribly ugly. Thierry Henry has followed the entire journey to the Norwegian club, and was one of the first “out there” to stop being surprised when Bodø/Glimt sank a giants. Now he thinks the football world must pay tribute to the Norwegian club.
“It was an outstanding series. We don’t have to go back and say, okay, you lost 5-0 and it was extra time. We don’t have to slaughter these boys just because they lost 5-0,” the French legend begins in the CBS studio.
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“What Bodø has accomplished is outstanding, I really have to say that, and they deserve all possible credit. But now we also have to pay tribute to the team that knocked them out. Everyone was talking about Sporting going to fail, that they wouldn’t be able to achieve what everyone expected – but Sporting managed it in the end,” the French icon continues.
“And they did it in a proper way. If you disregard the Bodø header in the crossbar, Sporting could have scored six, seven and eight goals. But we have to give Bodø/Glimt a lot of credit for the streak they have had, Henry concludes.
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