Bodo/Glimt vs Lillestrom - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to widen their pb astatine the apical of the Norwegian Eliteserien table, Bodo/Glimt volition invited Lillestrom to the Aspmyra Stadion connected Friday.

The hosts person climbed to the apical of the array with 4 consecutive victories, portion their visitors beryllium 4th and 10 points worse disconnected aft a defeat.

Match preview

Bodo/Glimt instrumentality to Eliteserien enactment connected Friday looking to proceed a affluent vein of signifier successful their bid to regain the rubric they past won successful 2024.

After finishing conscionable 1 constituent abbreviated of apical spot successful their defence successful 2025, Kjetil Knutsen's broadside person enjoyed a beardown archetypal fractional to the caller campaign, sitting astatine the acme with 31 points connected the committee from 15 outings, having won 11 and mislaid 2 of those.

They person excelled astatine some ends of the pitch, having netted a league-high tally of 37 goals and allowed a league-low 11, and the Superlaget person enjoyed a cleanable grounds since the division's summertime break, winning each 4 games without conceding to spell top.

After seeing disconnected KFUM Oslo, Fredrikstad and HamKam, they visited Sandefjord past play and made it 4 three-point hauls connected the bounce with a 3-0 victory, starring from the outset done Ola Brynhildsen earlier Jens Petter Hauge and Mikkel Bro Hansen added precocious goals.

Still lone starring second-placed Viking by 1 constituent having played a crippled more, Bodo/Glimt volition anticipation to agelong their winning tally successful the coming weeks and physique a comfy pb for the archetypal clip this campaign.

They conscionable a visiting broadside keen to get backmost to winning ways to amended their ain lasting astatine the apical extremity of the part aft a setback past clip out.

After winning an contiguous promotion backmost to the Eliteserien successful 2025, Lillestrom person enjoyed a pleasing archetypal fractional to 2026, presently sitting 4th with 25 points connected the committee from their 14 outings and 8 wins successful that time.

That is mostly acknowledgment to an encouraging distant record, with the Kanarifugla having won 4 and mislaid 2 of their 7 league games connected the road, putting them lone down the apical 2 successful distant signifier with their astir caller travel resulting successful a 2-0 triumph implicit Fredrikstad connected their instrumentality from the mid-season break.

A 2-1 location triumph implicit KFUM Oslo followed for Hans Erik Odegaard's team, but they failed to proceed the winning streak past clip out, hosting Viking and falling to a 2-1 defeat, having failed to find a leveller aft Lars Ranger halved the shortage connected the hr people pursuing goals from Kristoffer Askildsen and Peter Christiansen for the visitors.

Still sitting successful a beardown spot successful their archetypal play back, and six points down third-placed Tromso with a crippled successful hand, Lillestrom volition bid to get backmost connected way and instrumentality a large scalp distant from location successful Friday's contest.

Bodo/Glimt Norwegian Eliteserien form:

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Bodo/Glimt signifier (all competitions):

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Lillestrom Norwegian Eliteserien form:

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Team News

Bodo/Glimt stay incapable to telephone connected August Mikkelsen owed to an ongoing injury, portion Hakon Evjen volition besides miss retired successful midfield having seen his substitute quality chopped abbreviated past clip out.

Knutsen should tract a akin starting XI from past week's 3-0 distant win, though Jens Petter Hauge and 17-year-old Mikkel Bro Hansen some person claims to travel into the onslaught from the commencement aft scoring disconnected the bench.

Top scorer Kasper Hogh precocious departed for Celtic, leaving Ole Blomberg and Andreas Helmersen to pb the enactment against Sandefjord, and they whitethorn some proceed up apical portion Sondre Brunstad Fet volition again articulation cardinal antheral Patrick Berg successful the motor room.

Lillestrom are without Camil Jebara, Eric Kitolano and Linus Alperud, arsenic the trio stay confined to the attraction room.

Veteran Thomas Lehne Olsen volition anticipation to proceed to pb the line, contempt contention from Fredrik Gulbrandsen and caller signing Gustav Nordh, portion Felix Va has managed 5 goals and 5 assists from the helping this term.

Markus Karlsbakk is different cardinal antheral successful enactment of the attack, with 4 goals successful the Eliteserien truthful acold this word aft hitting 13 alongside 14 assists successful their promotion-winning run past clip around, portion Ylldren Ibrahimaj is simply a mainstay successful a deeper cardinal role.

Bodo/Glimt imaginable starting lineup:

Haikin; Sjovold, Bjortuft, Gundersen, Maatta; Berg, Fet; Hauge, Brynhildsen; Helmersen, Blomberg

Lillestrom imaginable starting lineup:

Dahlberg; Ranger, Garnas, Gabrielsen, Elkaer; Ibrahimaj; Nordh, Karlsbakk, Nyheim, Va; Gulbrandsen

We say: Bodo/Glimt 3-1 Lillestrom

Bodo/Glimt look to person recovered their groove since the mid-season interruption successful their complaint to apical spot, and portion the visitors person been resilient distant from location this term, we spot Knutsen's men having excessively overmuch prime and making it 5 consecutive league wins.

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