{"id":255024,"date":"2026-01-20T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255024\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:22:07","slug":"shock-in-the-arctic-as-bodo-glimt-outclass-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255024\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock in the Arctic as Bodo\/Glimt outclass Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City’s hopes of avoiding the Champions League play-off round suffered a blow as they crashed to a shock 3-1 defeat at Norwegian upstarts Bodo\/Glimt.<\/p>\n

Rodri was sent off on a dismal night for Pep Guardiola\u2019s side in the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n

Two first-half goals from Kasper Hogh, both after mistakes by Max Alleyne, and a later effort from Jens Petter Hauge stunned the visitors.<\/p>\n

Rayan Cherki pulled one back but the scoreline actually flattered City, who struggled to trouble their impressive hosts.<\/p>\n

The loss piled on the misery for City after their weekend derby loss to Manchester United and left them facing a crunch clash against Galatasaray in their final league phase match next week.<\/p>\n

FULL MATCH DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n

City could make excuses about the climate, a string of absentees or the artificial surface but they were ultimately outplayed.<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland, on his return to his native Norway, was again kept quiet as Bodo produced one of the best results in their history.<\/p>\n

City were without 11 senior players through either illness, injury, suspension or ineligibility.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the manner in which Bodo repeatedly troubled them on the break was alarming.<\/p>\n

They had a warning when Bodo\u2019s pacey forwards got behind the defence \u2013 which again featured inexperienced centre-backs Abduokodir Khusanov and Alleyne \u2013 but failed to capitalise.<\/p>\n

\"Kasper
\nKacper Hoge scored the Norwegians’ first two goals<\/p>\n

Typically City controlled a lot of possession but despite winning a series of corners, could not test home goalkeeper Nikita Haikin.<\/p>\n

Alleyne spurned a chance when he missed a header from a corner and things got worse for the youngster as Bodo pounced on two errors in quick succession.<\/p>\n

Alleyne first missed a tackle on halfway that allowed Bodo to counter. Ole Didrik Blomberg raced into the area and recovered his footing after a collision with Khusanov to chip a cross to the far post.<\/p>\n

Hogh headed firmly past Gianluigi Donnarumma and doubled his tally less than two minutes later after another Alleyne mistake.<\/p>\n

This time the Under-21 international dwelt too long on the ball and Blomberg again got clear to tee up Hogh for a tap-in.<\/p>\n

Hogh almost had a hat-trick after getting on the end of another moments later but this time Donnarumma saved.<\/p>\n

City missed chances to level as Rodri fluffed a header and Haaland shot narrowly wide.<\/p>\n

Tijjani Reijnders also fired at Haikin early in the second half but Bodo threatened again as Hakon Evjen tested Donnarumma.<\/p>\n

Rodri then endured a nightmare few minutes, starting as he gave the ball away in the build-up to Bodo’s third. Hauge powered forward and curled a fine shot into the top corner from distance.<\/p>\n

City replied immediately as O\u2019Reilly won the ball outside the Bodo area and Cherki drove in a deflected low shot.<\/p>\n

But Rodri was booked twice in quick succession, the second time for pulling back Blomberg, and was dismissed.<\/p>\n

Bodo sensed a chance for more and Hauge hit the bar before Hogh had another disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n

City wanted a penalty after Cherki went down in the area but their appeals were dismissed and Bodo claimed a deserved win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City’s hopes of avoiding the Champions League play-off round suffered a blow as they crashed to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-255024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}