Champions League: one point is all for Lille in Norway

In search of a first success in the Champions League this season, Lille could not achieve better than a draw (0-0) Tuesday on the Bodo/Glimt pitch and sees its prospects of qualifying for the play-offs dwindle a little further. In his hand for a good part of the match, Losc never managed to wrap up the match and realize its all too rare offensive situations, in an overall disappointing match. Lille even had to work hard in the final minutes, relying on several interventions from Berke Özer to preserve the score.

With this point, Lille (34th) have provisionally grabbed a place in the standings but remain stuck at the back of the pack in this league phase after four days. While it took at least nine points to reach the play-offs last season, Lille will have to completely reverse the trend in the last four matches to hope to reach this total. A task that promises to be very difficult with a reception from Bayern Munich at the end of November and a trip to AS Roma on the final day.

In difficult weather conditions on the synthetic turf at the Aspmyra Stadion, Lille quickly put their foot on the ball, as they did during the success against Lens last Friday (1-0). Opposed to a Bodo/Glimt team initially well grouped around their area and which did not shoot once in the first period, Lille lit the first fuse in the 8th minute, but Soriba Diaoune's attempt largely escaped the frame.

Not much more inspired than the Norwegians with the ball, in the absence of Nabil Bentaleb, Davide Ancelotti's players tried to rely on the percussion qualities of Dilane Bakwa. Holder in the absence of Ethan Mbappé, who served his last match of suspension in C1 on Tuesday, the former Strasbourg player was very messy with the ball on his right wing. He still had the best opportunity and the only shot on target in the first half, but goalkeeper Nikita Haikin relaxed to divert to his right (31st).

If possession became more balanced over the minutes, Losc took advantage of the spaces left by Bodo/Glimt upon returning from the locker room to be more enterprising. But the Mastiffs lacked sharpness when they entered the opposing area, like a too soft shot from Maurits Kjaergaard (63rd).

Opposite, the former Milanese Jens Petter Hauge sounded the revolt. Twirling on his left side, the Norwegian eliminated and found a partner twice in the area but Berke Özer intervened well in front of their strikes (59th, 67th). The entry of Olivier Giroud 20 minutes from time did not change much in the low offensive production of Lille, who were busier on the other side of the field. Fortunately, the Dogues goalkeeper intervened well in front of the heads of Ole Blomberg (79th) and Odin Bjortuft (84th). Enough to bring back a point from Norway and keep a slim hope of qualification.