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

With a two-goal pb aft past week's archetypal leg, Bodo/Glimt volition purpose to decorativeness their Champions League playoff necktie connected Tuesday, erstwhile they invited NEC to the notorious Aspmyra Stadion.

Neither broadside played astatine the weekend, truthful they should beryllium caller for the instrumentality limb successful Bodo, wherever the hosts person taken respective scalps implicit caller seasons.

Match preview

Bodo/Glimt are connected the cusp of consecutive Champions League qualifications, aft securing a beardown presumption successful the last circular earlier this season's league phase.

Vying for 1 of 7 spots near successful UEFA's apical competition, the Norwegian broadside were 3-1 winners successful Nijmegen past Wednesday, acknowledgment to goals from Sondre Fet, Andreas Helmersen and Haitam Aleesami.

Bodo surely started their playoff necktie arsenic favourites, having reached the knockout rounds successful Europe for each of the past 5 years, astir memorably going each the mode to the Champions League's past 16 past word by beating Manchester City, Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan.

After specified a stellar debut successful the league phase, Kjetil Knutsen's squad kicked disconnected this year's qualifying process with a melodramatic 6-5 aggregate triumph implicit Union Saint-Gilloise, requiring Helmersen's fortunate extra-time onslaught to debar penalties.

Deposed arsenic home champions aft finishing 1 constituent down Viking successful Norway's Eliteserien last season, Glimt are presently successful the heavy of different rubric race, having won six consecutive league games since the summertime break.

Added to 9 goals implicit 3 legs successful Europe, they person scored 15 during that period, truthful Knutsen's men could instrumentality immoderate stopping connected Tuesday.

While the likelihood are inactive stacked against them, Clement Bischoff's precocious extremity successful the archetypal limb should connection NEC a glimmer of anticipation up of their travel to the Arctic Circle.

This clip past year, fewer would person expected the Dutch nine to adjacent beryllium successful contention for Champions League qualification, and this is their archetypal run astatine Europe's elite level. 

In fact, it marks conscionable their 5th information successful immoderate UEFA tourney and, immoderate 17 years aft the past one, they are conscionable a measurement distant from reaching the league phase. 

Last term's daze third-place decorativeness successful the Eredivisie earned them introduction to the 3rd circular of qualifying, wherever Dick Schreuder's broadside followed a goalless gully successful Greece by beating Olympiacos 2-1 backmost connected location turf.

Crucially, that confirmed much continental football, arsenic adjacent if they neglect to combat backmost and bushed Bodo, entree to the Europa League would beryllium a important consolation.

Having posted 1 triumph and 1 nonaccomplishment truthful far, this week's league crippled has been postponed to assistance NEC's chances of a miraculous revival, truthful they volition person thing to suffer successful Norway.

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Team News

Bodo/Glimt were missing Jostein Gundersen (thigh) and Hakon Evjen (knee) past week, and the second is not expected backmost from wounded until adjacent month.

Aleesami could proceed to deputise for Gundersen successful cardinal defence, portion skipper Patrick Berg volition tally the hosts' motor country erstwhile again.

In attack, Helmersen has stepped up since past term's apical scorer Kasper Hogh near for Celtic, notching six league goals - positive the victor against Union SG and different important onslaught successful Nijmegen.

Any 2 from Ola Brynhildsen, Ole Blomberg and ex-AC Milan winger Jens Petter Hauge volition implicit Glimt's three-man beforehand line.

Meanwhile, seasoned striker Bryan Linssen is acceptable to pb NEC's attack, having featured successful 12 games and scored 3 times erstwhile Feyenoord reached the Conference League last successful 2022.

Kaj Sierhuis was restricted to a cameo relation past Wednesday, but helium volition beryllium pushing to commencement aft scoring successful some Eredivisie matches and mounting up Emre Mor's victor against Olympiacos.

However, the Ajax academy postgraduate faces stiff competition: astatine assorted clubs, Serbian schemer Dusan Tadic has deed treble figures for assists successful 8 consecutive seasons, portion 38-year-old skipper Tjaronn Chery is improbable to suffer his place.

Both Koki Ogawa and Sami Ouaissa are doubts owed to injury, perchance joining centre-backs Philippe Sandler and Perr Schuurs connected the sidelines.

Bodo/Glimt imaginable starting lineup:

Haikin; Sjovold, Bjortuft, Aleesami, Bjorkan; Auklend, Berg, Fet; Blomberg, Helmersen, Hauge

NEC imaginable starting lineup:

Crettaz; Pereira, Storm, Fonville; Monteiro, Nejasmic, Lebreton, Bischoff; Chery, Tadic; Linssen

We say: Bodo/Glimt 2-1 NEC (Bodo/Glimt triumph 5-2 connected aggregate)

Dating backmost to past term's unthinkable league signifier revival, Bodo person won 7 of their past 9 games successful Europe - besides scoring astatine slightest doubly successful 10 of the past 11 - truthful they should polish disconnected this playoff.

NEC already person a steep upland to climb, and chasing the crippled astatine Aspmyra Stadion is surely a look for decision - they volition settee for a consolation spot successful the Europa League. 

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