Bodo/Glimt vs Tottenham

Bodø/Glimt avoided defeat against an English side in European competition for the first time, having lost each of their previous five coming into today (including two previous defeats to Tottenham).

Tottenham came from two goals down to avoid defeat away from home in the UEFA Champions League for just the third time, after a 2-2 draw with Juventus in February 2018 and 3-2 win against Ajax in May 2019.

Bodø/Glimt's Jens Petter Hauge is only the second Norwegian player to score a brace against an English side in the UEFA Champions League, after John Carew for Valencia against Arsenal in March 2003.

The only previous meetings between Bodø/Glimt and Tottenham came in May of this year, with the English side winning home (3-1) and away (2-0) in the UEFA Europa League semi-finals, before going on to lift the trophy (1-0 v Manchester United in the final).

Bodø/Glimt have lost 100% of their games against English sides in major European competition (5/5); their worst losing record against sides from a single nation. All of those defeats have come in the UEFA Europa League since the 2022-23 campaign.

Tottenham’s 2-0 win away to Bodø/Glimt in May ended a five-game winning streak at home for the Norwegian side in Europe. They haven’t lost back-to-back home games in European competition since November 2022, with the first of those two defeats also coming against a side from North London (0-1 v Arsenal in the UEFA Europa League).

Tottenham have won three of their last four away games in major European competition (L1), including the last two. The last time they won three in a row away from home was in November 2013 (3), all of which were 2-0 wins in the UEFA Europa League.

Bodø/Glimt came from two goals down to avoid defeat against Slavia Prague in their very first UEFA Champions League match, the first time they’ve ever recovered a two-goal deficit in a major European game. They were the first Norwegian side to come back from two goals down in a UEFA Champions League match since Molde won 3-2 against Olympiakos in 1999.