In the 2025/26 season, many had Bayern Munich as one of the favourites to win the Champions League. Especially when Vincent Kompany’s Bayern showed some terrific attacking football that secured one win after another in the league phase. The season ended with an exit against PSG in the semi-finals, but the statistics of 11 wins in 14 games, where only Arsenal and PSG won and took points, Bayern Munich went into this year’s Champions League season almost without a loss of points. A bunch of Viking players did not let the statistics intimidate.
Real Madrid. Chelsea. PSG (in the group stage). Atalanta. Club Brugge. Sporting. PSV Eindhoven. These are the clubs Bayern Munich last season denied points in the Champions League. In Stavanger, one of the world’s biggest clubs had to give up both the lead – and points.
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German Bild was in a state of shock, how could this happen against a no-name club. Sporting director Max Eberl was pissed off at Vikings captain Zlatko Tripic for provoking a red card for superstar Michael Olise, but at the end of the evening the result still shone on the scoreboard and reminded Harry Kane and the gang that they had now given up points in the Champions League for the past year+ to PSG, Arsenal and Viking FK.
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A little extra spice to the football dish Viking served on a silver platter in the club’s first home game in the Champions League.
