Atletico Madrid, Newcastle United, and Bayer Leverkusen advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League, while Bodo/Glimt defeated last season’s runners-up Inter Milan 2-1 at San Siro to reach the next stage with a 5-2 aggregate triumph on Tuesday.
Bodo/Glimt, the modest outfit from north of the Arctic Circle, were looking to follow up their stunning 3-1 win last week in Norway in the first leg of their knockout phase play-off tie.
Inter, the three-time European champions who are currently 10 points clear at the top of Serie A, were expected to pummel their visitors in an attempt to turn the tie around.
Bodo/Glimt, however, survived at the back before finishing off the tie in the second half, pulling off one of the most remarkable results in modern Champions League history on Tuesday.
Bodo/Glimt, who had won four Norwegian Eliteserien titles in five years before finishing as runners-up last season to Viking Stavanger, are the first side from the country to go so far in Europe’s elite club competition since Rosenborg reached the quarter-finals in 1997.
They will find out their last-16 opponents on Friday but already know it will either be Sporting of Portugal or Manchester City next – they defeated City 3-1 at home last month during the league phase.
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Newcastle followed their 6-1 win away to Qarabag in Azerbaijan in last week’s first leg with a 3-2 victory in the return at St James’ Park, as Eddie Howe’s team ensured there will be six English clubs in the next round.
Newcastle can now look forward to a heavyweight tie in the next round against either Chelsea or Barcelona.
Atletico had been held to a 3-3 draw by Club Brugge in Belgium last week, but they ran out 4-1 winners in Tuesday’s return in the Spanish capital to advance 7-4 on aggregate.
Diego Simeone’s team will play either Tottenham Hotspur or Liverpool in the next round.
Meanwhile, Leverkusen followed a 2-0 win away to Olympiacos in Greece last week with a 0-0 draw at home in the return.
The 2024 German champions now face a huge test next against either Arsenal or Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich.
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