{"id":485043,"date":"2026-02-19T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485043\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:11:07","slug":"giant-killers-strike-again-champions-league-underdog-on-incredible-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485043\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant-killers strike again: Champions League underdog on incredible run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt is currently living the dream in the Champions League. After their 3-1 victory against Inter, they certainly have a chance of reaching the round of 16, while last year&#8217;s finalists are left worrying about their own fate.<\/p>\n<p>For the Norwegians, this was their third consecutive win this season against a team from the top 5 leagues (victories against ManCity and Atl\u00e9tico). This makes them only the fourth team to achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This victory is all the more incredible when you consider that the Norwegian team is not currently playing league football. Their season ended in November, and the new season doesn&#8217;t start until March. So far in 2026, all their matches have been in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves plenty of time for preparation for the games, and next week they could secure their ticket to the round of 16 in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/news\/schon-wieder-favoritenschreck-cl-underdog-stellt-unfassbare-serie-auf-42432657\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FK Bod\u00f8\/Glimt is currently living the dream in the Champions League. After their 3-1 victory against Inter, they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[108811,49,48,568,195576,10823,39295,195575,561,82,81748],"class_list":["post-485043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-atletico","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-champions-league","tag-giant-killers","tag-inter","tag-milan","tag-norwegian-team","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}