Bodo/Glimt spring upset to send Inter crashing out of Champions League

MILAN, Italy, Feb 24 : Bodo/Glimt dumped last season's finalists Inter Milan out of the Champions League with a remarkable 2-1 win at the San Siro in their playoff second leg on Tuesday that sealed a stunning 5-2 aggregate triumph for the Norwegian minnows.   

Having stunned Inter with a 3-1 victory in the first leg in Bodo, the visitors increased their aggregate advantage when Jens Petter Hauge fired home a rebound in the 58th minute and they were in dreamland 14 minutes later when Haakon Evjen effectively put the tie to bed and sent them into the last 16.

The team from the Arctic Circle have been the fairytale story of this season's competition, having sneaked into the playoffs with stunning victories over Manchester City and Atletico Madrid in their final two league-phase matches.

"It has been a journey. There is a large group of us who have been part of it. There are unbelievably many people behind this who have such strong belief in the project," Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen said to TV2.

After making it three wins in a row in the competition in the first leg against Inter, the Norwegian side named an unchanged starting lineup for the return fixture.

It turned into a relatively comfortable evening for the visitors, who rarely looked in danger of missing out on a first Champions League last-16 appearance as they became the first Norwegian side to advance from a knockout tie in the competition.

"Look at that amazing group. It's surreal and insanely cool, I don't know what to say," goalscorer Evjen said, while team captain Patrick Berg added that it was "the biggest thing I've experienced in the course of my career."

INTER DOMINATE EARLY STAGES

Needing goals, Inter were on the front foot immediately, with Pio Esposito heading