Was it the plan in the first half to sit back and try to get them on the counter?

Thomas: “I think that was what we wanted. Hopefully also you saw that we went high pressure sometimes. It was not that we never went high pressure. The plan was both to go into the high pressure, which we did on several occasions, and also succeed with those situations, and then there were times when we were a little bit more banked in. You know, exactly like we were four months ago, because they’re very, very good at what they’re doing, and then I think the counters should have been a little bit better, but I think the main bit was that when we were on the ball, we threw the ball away too quick.”

There’s been a lot of discussions about VAR in Norwegian football. What are your reflections on the use of VAR overall?

Thomas: “That’s a good question. I’m of this opinion that VAR, it’s here, and definitely I know there was a vote in Norway that you tried to vote against it and get rid of it. I don’t think that’s possible in the Premier League and Champions League, so when it’s not possible to get rid of it, I’m a little bit ‘okay, I deal with it, it is what it is’, and I think in some occasions it’s good because you get hopefully the correct decisions when you don’t get it normally, but there’s others where it’s too… you can actually discuss that one goal got disallowed, and actually the other one, they also looked into the equaliser, both of them without VAR would have just been goals, so we would have scored two goals, so that would have been favouring us because they were so 50-50 even, but I think the ones where you oversee a clear penalty or a clear red card, that’s where I think VAR is very good.”

Were there any parts of the game that surprised you from Bodo/Glimt?

Thomas: “I think they did exactly what I expected them to do in terms of how they wanted to play out, what they wanted to do, how they wanted to put on pressure. I think the only little tweak was they were a little bit more flexible in the midfield rotation and a little bit more with the wingers coming inside, so that was a little bit more flexible compared to, let’s say, the last game. That was a tweak that maybe created a few problems in the first half, I think a little less in the second half, even though they scored the goals, there were various reasons because actually the way we wanted to press, we just decided not to do at the 1-0 goal, even if it’s a fantastic finish from Hauge.”