– It will be in the Bodø / Glimt form – VG

Bodø / Glimt’s successful coach left no doubts about how Bodø / Glimt will look at San Siro when there were many more questions about future prospects against Milan than Zalgiris ended up at the press conference in Aspmyra on Thursday evening. :

They have to play as they usually do.

– It will be in the usual Bodø / Glimt way. If we want to have a chance against them, we have to be solid defensively, smart and handle a lot of one-on-one situations. If we play a different football than we do week after week, we have no chance. We must dare to be ourselves, but being smart will also be a mental test in many areas, Knutsen says.

He describes it as the test of time for Bodø / Glimt, and VG asks him to extract a “disadvantaged moment” from the football scrapbook that he likes to think about. He then chooses between his own coaching career and the Fyllingen era, when one of Football-Bergen’s little brothers kicked Brann out of the cup in 2010.

The shocking loss to Knutsen’s men was Steinar Nilsen’s last game as Brann’s coach. A suitable choice. Because Nilsen has at least one past player in Milan …

– Either we win or we learn. I think it was the Atalanta coach who said that. That should be our starting point, continues Knutsen, expressing that he does not like the term “parking the bus” when it is presented as an opportunity on one of the most powerful venues in Football Europe.

– We have to defend ourselves low, but we can’t just do it. Is it to defend yourself under “to park the bus?”. When we defend low, we have to play with their first pressure. Because we have to have more than two and three passes before we lose the ball. The instruments are the same, but the opponent is on a higher level, continues Knutsen.

Undefeated Milan

He flies his victory machine to northern Italy and lands with another one. The Italian greatness has not lost since March and went undefeated in Serie A (9-3-0) on this side of the crown bud.

Scores for the team’s biggest star, Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Turkish Hakan Çalhanoğlu, passed comfortably from the away game against Irish Shamrock Rovers yesterday.

Just before Bodø / Glimt played their 20th consecutive home game without losing and have not lost in the Elite Series in 2020:

– It will be an incredibly great opportunity for us to test what we have done in recent years: focus on ourselves and our own performance, and then the results will come. There, we may have a million reasons not to trust our own abilities and achievements. But we will try to do it anyway, says Ulrik Saltnes, the man who can perhaps teach the Italians a word for inside runners after the big match next Thursday.

The winner of the singles match in Italy moves on to the playoff battle for a place in the Europa League group stage. The San Siro match takes place without spectators. Both Philip Zinckernagel, Saltnes and Knutsen cite it as a possible advantage for Glimt. But all had preferred a noisy arena.

– Soccer is much more fun with the audience. Yes, I think in terms of escaping from a team like that, it’s an advantage that there are no people. But God, how much more fun would it have been with 60,000, Knutsen thinks.

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