Watch the press conference after the match in the video window above. It ended 4-1 after extra time and 4-2 on aggregate to Dinamo Zagreb at the infamous Maksimir Stadium on Wednesday evening. Thus, it is Dinamo Zagreb that is qualified for the group stage in the Champions League, while Bodø/Glimt will have to settle for the group stage in the Europa League. Glimt led 1-0 after the match at Aspmyra, but in Zagreb the Croatians fought back. The yellow jerseys got off to a nightmare start with a late goal after just three minutes, and when Bruno Petkovic kicked in 2-0 ten minutes before the break, it looked terribly difficult for the Norwegian team. Bodøværing’s hopes of promotion were renewed when 25-million-euro signing Albert Grønbæk reduced midway through the second half, and the match thus went to extra time. Two late goals by Josip Drmic and Petar Bockaj towards the end of the second extra period ensured that Dinamo Zagreb won the playoff duel 4-2 on aggregate in dramatic fashion. After Glimt’s dominance in the second half, the loss is an extra bitter blow. They had Dinamo on the fork, all that remained was to take the decisive bite. Now they have to wait at least one year for the next opportunity to qualify for the Champions League. – It hurts in the way that I feel that if we had kept our cool, even though they were empty and had only moved the ball in the second half, then we control the whole game, says coach Kjetil Knutsen to TV 2. – They run between each other , can’t take it, we could continue with that, but we give them momentum back. We start losing the ball at stupid times. Bitterly, I feel we made an honest attempt. The definition of the degree of disappointment is not so important. We didn’t make it. HIGHLIGHTS: See the highlights from the match here. Nightmare start As you know, Glimt had a 1-0 victory to go on from the first game at Aspmyra, and the return match at Maksimir began as many had imagined; a big push from the home team. After just three minutes, they could have gone up in the lead, but the finish from short range went over. Some Glimt fans had made the trip to Maksimir. Photo: Marius Guttormsen / news It should have been a warning, because only a minute later it crashed again. Mislav Orsic got the ball unmarked on the left side after Petkovic won the duel up front, and after a little bit of fumbling, he hammered the ball high into the net behind Nikita Haikin. Thus the start of Glimt’s nightmare was a fact. – That goal is Isak Helstad Amundsen’s responsibility. Marius Høibråten is going the right way in the duel, Isak will secure, analyzed football expert Lars Tjærnås on Twitter after the late goal. The home team continued to run the game. First they called for a penalty kick when Helstad Amundsen was in contact with the ball with his arm, but were not heard by the match’s referee Mateu Lahoz. before a short time later they shot into the crossbar and out from 20 metres. Brasses kick Ten minutes before the break, goal number two of the evening arrived. An imprecise play from Marius Høibråten was intercepted by the hosts, who sped up and played out on the right. A cross was taken down by Bruno Petkovic in front of the goal, and the Dinamo profile beautifully put the ball into the goal with a brass kick. – This is simply football art. It is fully deserved that they double and lead 2-0, said TV 2’s expert Jesper Mathisen after the goal. 2-0 was also the result when the teams went to the break. Kjetil Knutsen says he is “incredibly disappointed” about the first half. – Then we are the exact opposite of what we should be. We should be brave and dare to be ourselves. Then we are not willing to create an imbalance from behind. We go and move the ball and concede two absolutely horrible goals, says Knutsen. In the second half, another Glimt team took to the pitch. Knutsen’s men took hold of the game and pushed the home team backwards, but it would still take a quarter of an hour before they created the big chances. Then Høibråten rose to the air on a corner from substitute Albert Grønbæk, but Dinamo Zagreb saved on the line. Magic from the record purchase A short time later, Grønbæk took matters into his own hands. The newly acquired record signing from Denmark received the ball in space, dribbled away three Croatians and put in the 1-2 reduction for Glimt in beautiful fashion. And suddenly the teams were the same distance. – This (Grønbæk) could turn out to be the investment of the ages for Glimt. Look at that individual performance, Grønbæk does it beautifully, commented Jesper Mathisen on TV 2. Glimt pushed for the decisive score, but the match ended at 2-1 and thus 2-2 overall. This led to extra time in Zagreb. In the 116th and 118th minutes, Josip Drmic and Petar Bockaj provided the goals that sent the hosts on. These started Glimt’s fateful 4-3-3: Nikita Haikin, Alfons Sampsted, Marius Høibråten, Isak Helstad Amundsen, Brice Wembangomo, Hugo Vetlesen, Elias Hagen, Ulrik Saltnes, Joel Mvuka, Lars-Jørgen Salvesen, Amahl Pellegrino.
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