{"id":481230,"date":"2026-03-18T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481230\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:08:14","slug":"sportings-stunning-turnaround-ends-bodo-glimts-champions-league-run-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481230\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting\u2019s stunning turnaround ends Bod\u00f8\/Glimt\u2019s Champions League run | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sporting staged a stunning comeback to beat Bod\u00f8\/Glimt 5-0 after extra time and reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/championsleague\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League<\/a> quarter-finals with a 5-3 aggregate victory in their last-16 tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trailing 3-0 from the first leg in Norway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/sporting-lisbon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sporting<\/a> attacked from the kick-off and went ahead in the 34th minute when Gon\u00e7alo In\u00e1cio headed in from Francisco Trinc\u00e3o\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bod\u00f8\/Glimt struck the crossbar before half-time through Odin Bj\u00f8rtuft\u2019ss header, but Sporting scored again when Pedro Gon\u00e7alves swept in Luis Su\u00e1rez\u2019s cross in the 61st minute. The hosts levelled the tie when Su\u00e1rez converted a penalty in the 78th after a video assistant referee review for a handball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sporting needed less than two minutes of extra time to score the fourth as Maxi Ara\u00fajo slotted in, with the substitute Rafael Nel adding a fifth in added time, ending the Norwegian side\u2019s fairytale run and sending the back-to-back Portuguese champions through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe always believed that, with the help of this amazing crowd, we would be able to make it,\u201d Ara\u00fajo said. \u201cIt was amazing, we put on a great effort and that paid off. I\u2019m so proud of this group and happy to have helped give the fans a night to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A delighted Maxi Ara\u00fajo after his goal in extra time puts Sporting ahead in the tie. Photograph: Pedro Nunes\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Bod\u00f8 had beaten Manchester City, Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and Inter twice in a remarkable run of results before comfortably winning the first leg against Sporting in Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Yet, roared on by a raucous crowd, Sporting came flying out of the gate and fashioned 11 attempts in the opening 15 minutes but squandered three clear chances, with Trinc\u00e3o twice missing from close range and Gon\u00e7alves misfiring a volley as the hosts laid siege to the Bod\u00f8 goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">However In\u00e1cio\u2019s powerful first-half header finally broke the deadlock and put Sporting on their way to what would become a remarkable turnaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sporting staged a stunning comeback to beat Bod\u00f8\/Glimt 5-0 after extra time and reach the Champions League quarter-finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}