Before Thursday’s match, the Glimt coach is clear that they will attack the opponent. – Our approach to what we do is always to read opponents. In that image, we must be ourselves as much as possible. We go on some bumps, but we have chosen the hard way. He mentioned the previous match against Molde, where the visitors defended themselves in a low 5-3-2 formation. – But we don’t lie down and defend. We dare to attack. That is our approach. Knutsen also mentioned that he was incredibly proud of the players in the second half against Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League playoff. – Then we were ourselves. I remind you that they beat Chelsea 1-0 yesterday. I think it shows that the top level of Glimt is very good. However, he did not hide the fact that they are facing a very talented team from the Netherlands. – There is so much quality in the PSV team that I don’t know where to start or end. PSV have played five matches in the domestic league so far this season. It has resulted in four wins and one loss. But the team has scored a total of 23 goals. That’s an average of 4.6 goals per game. Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen smiled in the sunshine in the Netherlands the day before the match against PSV. Photo: Frida Brembo / news There were many disappointed Glimt players when Dinamo Zagreb emerged victorious from the playoffs for the Champions League a few weeks ago. The smiles probably returned, however, when Glimt’s group in the Europa League was ready. Arsenal, FC Zurich and PSV. The latter is ready to take on Bodø/Glimt in Thursday’s match in Eindhoven. – In my opinion, PSV and Arsenal are teams with Champions League quality. – But everyone who knows Glimt knows that we do things our way. Then we must also dare to do it against good teams in Europe. We face an offensive PSV team with an insane amount of individual quality. So it will be exciting to see how competitive we are. Injury concerns for top scorer One who, however, will not join the Netherlands is Bodø/Glimt’s top scorer, Amahl Pellegrino. – We are losing a good player and someone who is incredibly good at scoring goals. It’s a loss for all teams. But it is part of football and we have solutions for it, says Knutsen at the press conference. The 32-year-old has been in great form for Glimt this season, and has scored a whopping 19 goals in 19 games in the Eliteserien. If you include the games in the qualification for the Champions League, the figure is 23 goals in 26 games. It is uncertain how long the lightning winger will have to be on the sidelines after the injury he suffered in the 1-4 phase against Molde. – We do not know the status of Amahl. But we know his ability to come back quickly from injury, but too early to say anything about that right now. While Pellegrino is out of action for the yellow jerseys, Patrick Berg has returned home. Knutsen assures that. – Patrick is a player of international quality. He knows Glimt DNA and has it in his genes. A big increase for glimmer and this team. Former Manchester United icon Ruud van Nistelrooy together with the great talent Xavi Simons during the press conference, Wednesday. Photo: Frida Brembo / news Big club in Europe PSV stands for Philips Sport Vereniging, and was established as a football club for employees of the company Philips in 1913, 109 years ago. The club took a few years to rise to the top of the Dutch league, but in recent years have been fighting with Ajax to win the league gold, which they have done 24 times themselves. In addition to ten cup golds, they won what is now called the Champions League in the 1987-88 season, and the Europa League, or the UEFA Cup as it was then called, in 1977-78. So it’s a big club that Glimt will be bracing himself for on Thursday. But with great victories against clubs such as Roma, Celtic and Dutch AZ Alkmaar in the Serie Liga, Glimt has shown that they are not being fooled by European giants. PSV has good experience in Europe. Here from a match in the Europa League against Sporting Lisbon in 2019. Pablo Rosario (left) fights for the ball with Bruno Fernandes, now playing for Manchester United. Photo: Armando Franca/AP
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