UEFA Europa League semifinal continues Thursday, May 8 with the second part of a match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bodo/Glimt At the ASPMYRA stadium in Bodo, Norway.
This football game is scheduled to start at 3 pm EDT and will be transmitted Telemundo and Paramount+. Fans seeking to see this match can do it for free by using Directv flowthat offers a free judgment or FUBOTVIt also offers a free test and up to $ 25 off the first month. Paramount+ It also offers a free test and has exclusive access to the UEFA Champions League along with NWSL Action. SLINGTV It does not offer any free test, but it has promotional offers available for the transmission of the party.
Tottenham has a 3-1 lead in participation in this contest after scoring at 1 ‘and then taking a couple of goals for the next 60 minutes. Bodo/Glimt fell the goalkeeper at 83 ′ to create a better trait of going back to the second stage.
The winner will continue to take on Manchester United or Atlético Club in the European League final.
WHO: Bodo/Glimt vs. Tottenham Hotspur
When: Thursday May 8 at 3pm EDT
Where Aspmyra Stadium in Bodo, Norway
Stream: DirectTV Stream (Free Test); FUBOTV (Free Test); Paramount+ (Free Test); SLINGTV
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The Ultimate Leveler: Bodø/Glimt has a secret weapon to demolish Europe giants
By James Robson AP Writer Football
Located to the north of the Arctic Circle and that needs to deal with brutal weather conditions, the Norwegian Bodø/GLIMT football team has an artificial playing field built to handle almost anything.
Including much larger rivals.
This could be bad news for the Premier League Tottenham Hotspur giant when teams meet in the second half of the Europa League semifinal on Thursday.
Spurs is leading 3-1 after the first game, but this advantage might seem slender once the game at Aspmyra stadium in the fishing city of Bodø, more than 1,000 kilometers north of Oslo.
Despite the fact that the city has a population of about 55,000 towns, Bodø/Glimt, without stopping outside Norway, continues to achieve shock victories against the famous home grass opponents.
And the artificial surface that seems to be such a high level for teams that are not used to play in sometimes arctic and far from traditional grass.
Evangelos Marinakis, president of the Greek team Olympiacos, was critical after a 3-0 defeat in Europa League in March, saying that “we played a playing field that is not like other European stadiums” and that one of its players “was injured due to the conditions of the pitch.”
Olympiacos won the second game 2-1 at home, but was eliminated by 4-2 in total, with Marinakis, lamenting: “What really matters is what happened in the first game.”
Forbidden
It is certainly unusual to see a high -level game like the semifinal of an important European competition performed on the artificial grass, which is criticized for the way the ball occurs compared to the grass. Now it has been twice in a season. The Swedish club Djurgården hosted a semifinal of the conference league last week that Chelsea won 4-1.
Sometimes called plastic launches, they were banned in England in 1988 due to the highest rates of injuries and the inconsistent gameplay. But the UEFA allows them to use artificial releases approved until the semifinals of its competitions: the Champions League, the Europa League and the league league.
“High level football in (A) The plastic field is not high -level football,” said Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho, after a champions league classification game against Lugano last July, which was also played on artificial turf. “The ball is slow, the players cannot haggle, they run with the ball and the ball is behind. The game is slow, so I honestly do not understand why UEFA allows Champions League to (a) plastic.”
The Netherlands League has now banned the artificial releases of next season, and Scottish top club clubs voted to ban them from the 2026-27 season.
The FIFA World Government body also allows for artificial surfaces approved for national team games, but synthetic launches are transmitted as a grass to the NFL stages used for the 2026 world cup of men in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The controversy in women’s football followed a decision of FIFA’s previous leadership to let the World Women’s Cup 2015 in Canada reproduce on the artificial grass. Players including the North -American Star Abby Wambach went to the court trying to stop this gender discrimination.
Advantage
The Bodø/Glimt record at its 9,000-capacity stadium seems to indicate an advantage and has played an important role in becoming the first Norwegian team to reach the semifinals of a highest European club competition.
In addition to Olympicos, he has won home games against Lazio, Porto, Besiktas and FC Twente this season. He won the red star Belgrade in a classification of the Home Champions League before the campaign, but it came out total.
He also threw Rome-Despissal managed by Mourinho-6-1 at home in the conference league in 2021.
A Tottenham source is the fact that Bodø/Glimt has lost four games against English opposition, including a 3-2 defeat at Manchester United this season.
Tottenham’s manager, Ange Postcoglou, however, lost 5-1 in total against the Norwegians when Celtic’s position in 2022 included a 2-0 defeat at Aspmyra’s stadium.
“It’s on artificial grass, but it is still a football game and I’ve been there, I played there with Celtic,” he said after the first leg last week. “I know the experience and what is important for us is that we have to replicate what we have done today (in the first stage).
“Regardless of the surface, if we are as disciplined and organized as we were today, with and without the ball, no matter what the surface is, I think it will be really difficult to leave us.”
Why artificial?
The Bodø/Glimt stadium is one of the northernmost of the world football at 67 degrees latitude. The city, on the west coast of Norway, is known as the destination to see the northern lights.
Unlike most of Europe, the Norwegian football league begins in spring and ends in the fall to avoid playing during the long winter. Bodø has less than an hour of sunlight on its shortest winter days, making the pitch expensive and difficult. Temperatures can be immersed in the freezing point even in May.
Bodø/Glimt’s synthetic grass and synthetic grass allowed him to stage his quarter -last against Lazio last month, despite heavy snowfall that completely covered the game on the day of the party, which would have been unlikely to the grass.
The Tottenham midfielder, Dejan Kulusevski, predicted that the game in Bodø would be difficult because playing artificial grass is almost like a “different sport”.
Bodø/Glimt Ombudsman Jostein Gundersen laughed his comment.
“I wonder what he thinks we should have done differently than Bodø,” Gundersen told the Norwegian TV2 station. “If we had seen where we are, it is not so easy to have more than the artificial grass.”
Associated Press contributed to this post