Norwegian champions Viking produced one of the biggest results in their history to hold six-time European winners Bayern Munich to a thrilling draw in the Champions League. <\/p>\n
Viking, who were in Norway’s second tier as recently as 2018, scored two first-half goals to take control before England captain Harry Kane equalised with a penalty and back-post header.<\/p>\n
Luis Diaz gave Bayern the lead with a tap-in but Michael Olise was sent off shortly after for two yellow cards in the same phase of play, including throwing the ball in a Viking player’s face. <\/p>\n
That gave Viking, who are playing in Europe’s top competition for the first time since 1992-93, renewed energy.<\/p>\n
They were the better team after the red card and got a deserved equaliser when substitute Herman Haugen headed home at the back post. <\/p>\n
Viking captain Zlatko Tripic told Norweigan channel Tv2: “I could have played another 90 minutes. I’m so incredibly proud. I’ve waited 34 years for this.<\/p>\n
“We’re playing against some of the best players in the world, yet we still managed to take a 2-0 lead. I think we played an incredibly solid match. We used everything we had. We’ve gained a bit of European experience. I’m just so unbelievably happy.”<\/p>\n
Viking, who have two head coaches in Morten Jensen and Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim, are joint top of the Norweigan top flight with Bodo\/Glimt, with eight games remaining. <\/p>\n
They took the lead after 71 seconds when Gianni Stensness rose highest to head home a corner, before Peter Christiansen superbly slot past Jonas Urbig on the break in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n
Kane’s brace, which pulled Bayern level, means he has 36 goals in 40 Champions League games since turning 30, taking him one clear of Messi’s record of 35 strikes in his thirties. <\/p>\n
The 33-year-old has scored in nine successive Champions League games – a feat only achieved by Ruud van Nistelrooy, Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo, who holds the record with 11 games. <\/p>\n
Bayern host Arsenal on 21 October and will be without Olise after his sending-off, while Viking visit Aston Villa on the same night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwegian champions Viking produced one of the biggest results in their history to hold six-time European winners Bayern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-931948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931948","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=931948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}