Champions League round of 16 second leg: Sporting CP vs Bodø/Glimt facts

Sporting CP face a three-goal deficit as UEFA Champions League debutants Bodø/Glimt come to Lisbon for the second leg of their round of 16 tie.

The Norwegian side took a firm grip on the tie with a 3-0 home win on 11 March thanks to goals from Sondre Brunstad Fet (32pen), Ole Didrik Blomberg (45+1) and Kasper Høgh (71).

Sporting were seventh in the league phase to progress to the round of 16 for the third time. Their Norwegian opponents have won their last five games in the competition – having managed no victories in the first six – to claim 23rd place in the league phase, the penultimate qualifying berth, before ousting last season's runners-up Inter in the knockout phase play-offs (3-1 h, 2-1 a).

Last match

The first leg was the teams' first meeting and also the first-ever European Cup tie between Portuguese and Norwegian clubs.

Sporting have won five of their seven matches against Norwegian teams (L2) including three in a row before losing to Bodø/Glimt, most recently beating Rosenborg home (1-0) and away (2-0) in the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League group stage.

The Lions' record in two-legged knockout ties against teams from Norway is W1 L1. They defeated Lyn 7-0 on aggregate in the 1971/72 European Cup Winners' Cup first round (4-0 h, 3-0 a) but lost 1-3 to Viking at the same stage of the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup (0-3 a, 1-0 h).

Sporting have kept five clean sheets in their seven games against Norwegian clubs and have won all three at home without conceding.

Bodø/Glimt have won all three games against Portuguese sides, beating Porto 3-2 at home and Braga 2-1 away in the league phase of last season's Europa League.

Sporting CP 

The Lions are making their 12th appearance in the Champions League proper, and a fourth in five seasons.

Sporting were 23rd in last season's league phase (W3 D2 L3), bowing out against Borussia Dortmund in the knockout phase play-offs (0-3 h, 0-0 a).

Bodø/Glimt

This is Bodø/Glimt's fourth Champions League campaign – all since 2021. They have reached the competition proper for the first time, the third Norwegian team to do so after Rosenborg (11 times) and Molde (once) and the first since Rosenborg in 2007/08.

Bodø/Glimt entered this season's Champions League in the play-offs, beating Sturm Graz 6-2 on aggregate (5-0 h, 1-2 a).

Key stats

Sporting have lost both their previous round of 16 ties – 1-12 on aggregate against Bayern in 2008/09 (0-5 h, 1-7 a), still the biggest margin of defeat in a Champions League tie, and 0-5 to Manchester City in 2021/22 (0-5 h, 0-0 a).

The Lisbon club have reached the European Cup quarter-finals only once, in 1982/83.

Sporting are without a goal in their last five Champions League knockout matches.

The Lions have, however, won all four home games in this season's competition.

Sporting have twice lost the away first leg of a European tie by a three-goal margin. They beat Manchester United in the 1963/64 Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals (1-4 a, 5-0 h) – and went on to win the trophy – but lost to Norway's Viking in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup second round (0-3 a, 1-0 h).

Bodø/Glimt's win against Inter in the previous round made them the first Norwegian club to win a Champions League knockout phase tie. Rosenborg reached the quarter finals in 1996/97, when they advanced directly from the group stage.

The Norwegian side have won their last five matches, beating Manchester City (3-1 h), Atlético de Madrid (2-1 a), Inter twice and now Sporting. They are the first Norwegian team to win more than three successive games in the Champions League proper.

Bodø/Glimt have scored two or more goals in nine of their 11 games in the Champions League proper.

Victory against Inter was Bodø/Glimt's seventh in their last nine two-legged European ties.

Bodø/Glimt have won all five European ties in which they won by a three-goal margin in the home first leg.

Kasper Høgh has scored five goals in his last five Champions League appearances.