Tottenham v Bodo/Glimt: Line-ups, stats and preview

Tottenham v Bodo/Glimt match preview

The doubtless defining house match of Tottenham’s curious season arrives on Thursday when Ange Postecoglou’s facet tackle Bodo/Glimt within the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals.

Spurs suffered their third successive Premier League defeat with a 5-1 thrashing at champions Liverpool on Sunday, taking their whole to 19 league losses in a season that also holds the promise of silverware if they will oust the reigning Norwegian champions and beat Manchester United or Athletic Bilbao within the remaining.

“I don’t assume so,” Postecoglou replied when he was requested if he might want to carry his gamers after their troubles at Anfield. “We had some key gamers lacking who I believe will are available in and kind of make certain there isn’t any hangover.

“We had a very younger midfield with Lucas [Bergvall] and Archie [Gray] and also you’re asking a large job of them. It was all the time going to be an enormous ask for us and it proved an excessive amount of.”

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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) April 29, 2025

Bodo/Glimt beat Lazio on penalties within the final eight, changing into the primary Norwegian staff to achieve the semi-finals of a European competitors.

“I don’t consider in miracles,” supervisor Kjetil Knutsen mentioned afterwards. “I consider in our journey. The magic was with us. We performed a rare match and we’re extremely proud to be within the semi-finals.”

Ahead Jens Petter Hauge known as Glimt’s progress “loopy”. “Every thing is feasible now,” he added. “There are 4 groups left and now we have to maintain working laborious to organize for Tottenham.

“They’re a powerful staff with many good gamers. It’s going to be robust – like [against Lazio] – however this group can do it and we consider in ourselves.”

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— FK Bodø/Glimt | Seriemester 2024 🏆 (@Glimt) April 27, 2025

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As Postecoglou’s remarks recommend, Spurs are prone to make wholesale adjustments for a match they’ve clearly been prioritising since advancing with a formidable 2-1 mixture win over Eintracht Frankfurt.

“Plenty of our gamers have missed a variety of this season with accidents and it [is about] managing their minutes, as a result of we wish them prepared,” the Australian advised Tottenham’s website.

“Guys like Micky [van de ven] and [Cristian] Romero might have performed [on Sunday], however they’ve missed a lot of the season that we’ve simply acquired to be actually cautious about after we use them.

“Guys like Pedro [Porro] and [Rodrigo] Bentancur have performed rather a lot this 12 months.”

Defender Radu Dragusin is out with a knee damage and Heung-Min Son is out due to a foot problem, with Postecoglou hopeful the ahead shall be prepared for the second leg.

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— FK Bodø/Glimt | Seriemester 2024 🏆 (@Glimt) April 30, 2025

Bodo/Glimt have issues of their very own. Ahead Andreas Helmersen and midfielders Hakon Evjen and Patrick Berg are suspended, whereas winger Ole Didrik Blomberg and centre-back Odin Bjortuft are damage doubts.

Bjortuft has performed all through a lot of their European marketing campaign however was compelled off by means of damage throughout their 3-0 house win over KFUM on Sunday.

“He was disillusioned and advised me that he his groin was painful, however you possibly can really feel ache with out that essentially which means it’s one thing [bad],” teammate Ulrik Saltnes was quoted as saying by Football London.

“I have no idea something,” Knutsen reportedly mentioned. “I by no means get pleasure from a participant laying down, however the medical workers are wanting into it.”