Sporting Lisbon’s Maximiliano Araujo celebrates scoring his group’s fourth aim within the conflict towards Bodo/Glimt. Picture: AFP
LISBON:
Sporting Lisbon made a powerful comeback to hammer Norwegian giantkillers Bodo/Glimt 5-0 on Tuesday and attain the Champions League quarter-finals 5-3 on mixture.
After a 3-0 final 16 first leg defeat final week north of the Arctic Circle, Sporting produced a ruthless show in Portugal to e-book a spot within the final eight for the primary time for the reason that 1982/83 season.
Bodo/Glimt have drawn admirers internationally for his or her very good performances on this season’s Champions League however as soon as Goncalo Inacio opened the scoring, the Portuguese champions by no means regarded again.
Pedro Goncalves and Luis Suarez netted to pressure extra-time and Maximiliano Araujo scored within the 92nd minute to place Sporting forward for the primary time within the tie, earlier than Rafael Nel smashed house a fifth late on.
“We had the fitting depth and vitality, we did what we did not do there,” ahead Francisco Trincao advised Sport TV.
“We had a distinct vitality, a distinct type of pleasure, and we performed a historic sport.
“Everybody believed, the followers additionally made us really feel that vitality, and throughout the sport as time went on we realised we had been succesful and we carried that by way of to the top.”
Bodo/Glimt shocked final season’s runners-up Inter Milan within the play-off spherical and defeated Manchester Metropolis and Atletico Madrid within the league part earlier than that.
These astonishing outcomes had been adopted up by the primary leg rout of Sporting on the Norwegians’ 8,000-capacity Aspmyra Stadium, giving Kjetil Knutsen’s aspect a tantalising sight of the final eight.
Maybe it daunted them, as they gave the impression to be taking part in with concern from the beginning in Lisbon.
“We have had a unbelievable journey, then we enter a sport the place it appears to me that we’re not taking part in the sport, we’re taking part in the chance — and that chance goes to be too massive for us,” Knutsen advised TV2.
“We had been fascinated about the results from the primary kick… we had been so removed from our identification.”
The hosts dominated, racking up photographs at practically the identical fee the Norwegian aspect had been finishing passes within the opening phases.
Round 2,000 Bodo/Glimt followers made the lengthy trek to Jose Alvalade stadium, the place their dream was mercilessly crushed beneath the rain.
Ruthless rout
Knutsen chosen the identical line-up for the sixth Champions League match working, a contest report. Rui Borges’s Sporting peppered the Bodo/Glimt aim, with Nikita Haikin saving from Colombian striker Suarez early on.
Kasper Hogh, who scored within the first leg, had a wonderful probability to ship the guests forward towards the run of play on the different finish however dragged his shot a good distance large.
Former Barcelona ahead Trincao’s effort was deflected off-target, however he helped create the opener with a nook. Inacio rose highest to nod house and begin Sporting’s comeback.
Bodo/Glimt nearly pulled again stage however Odin Bjortuft headed towards the crossbar, with the ball flying upwards after which dropping downwards onto the woodwork once more, earlier than Sporting had been in a position to get better.
The Portuguese aspect cast their second aim simply after the hour mark with Suarez racing in down the fitting and pulling the ball throughout for Goncalves to faucet house.
The comeback was properly and actually on and Suarez received in on the motion himself with a penalty after 78 minutes, following a handball by Fredrik Andre Bjorkan.
Bodo/Glimt held on to pressure extra-time however after simply two minutes of it Araujo fired house, drilling inside Haikin on the close to publish for Sporting’s fourth.
Sporting correctly stored management by way of the remainder of the extra interval and wrapped issues up on the loss of life when Nel rifled into the highest nook.
