That Bodø/Glimt would qualify for the largest club tournament in Europe was no surprise in all respects. The Norwegians have been crashing against it for a few years. Both in 2022 and 2024 things went wrong in the play-offs. Moreover, last week, the Sturm Graz was won no less than 5-0 last week. The 2-1 defeat in Austria on Tuesday did not hurt a penny.
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For Pafos FC it was a bit different, although the Cypriots had won pretty well last week visiting Red Star Belgrade (1-2). However, the Serbs took the lead on Tuesday to visit the club of the missing Jay Gorter and basic customer Derrick Luckassen. Mirko Ivanic made the 0-1 after exactly an hour of play.
Pafos beats late
The game seemed to be heading for an extension, but in the 89th minute Jaja signed for the equalizer and in this scenario so also winning goal via a beautiful variant with a free kick. The goalkeeper Matheus rented to Ajax last season was no chance.
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Then Pafos still had to survive the injury time, although there was not really much football in it. The most remarkable thing was that players and staff members of Red Star Belgrade were so angry that they wanted to get up the stands to get a story from the crazy Pafos fans.