#gunnar

#gunnar

I feel pride in the performance as they gave it their all. I feel gratitude to the supporters who showed up and supported the team throughout and even after the loss, but I and I know the players feel only pain.

Sporting CP became the fifth team to overturn a three-goal first-leg deficit to progress in the Champions League knockout rounds with a 5-3 aggregate win over Bodo/Glimt. The Portuguese club were swept aside 3-0 in the Arctic Circle last week. But a 5-0 win after extra time at Estadio Jose Alvalade on Tuesday saw Sporting reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1982-83.

Ngumoha was handed just his fourth senior start, yet he played like someone far more experienced, driving relentlessly at defenders, injecting tempo into Liverpool's attack, and offering the kind of directness and unpredictability supporters have long craved.

Man Utd director of football, Jason Wilcox, and the Red Devils' CEO, Omar Berrada, are 'trying to bring' Kinteh 'to Old Trafford' this summer, according to the report. The Premier League club are 'preparing to organise a trip to Norway' in the beginning of March to follow the teenager closely.

Bodø/Glimt were already admired for their ascent through the Norwegian system-returning to the top flight only in 2017 and winning four league titles in the years that followed. But their leap into the Champions League spotlight this season has been extraordinary. As tournament debutants, they arrived with curiosity surrounding them-but they quickly replaced intrigue with astonishment.

Seeing all these huge teams come to little Bodo is amazing but, of all of them, I like least to lose to Tromso. It is a rivalry as curious as it is passionately contested, with the two clubs lying some 300 miles apart, such is the vastness of the Norwegian north.