Key events
75 mins: Now Solanke is down, and feeling his left thigh. He’s being taken straight off, and Wilson Odobert is coming on.
74 mins: Romero gets booked for pretty cynically checking the run of a Bodo attacker. “As a presumptuous Spurs fan, I much prefer facing Man U than Athletic in a final,” writes Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo. “Losing to Man U would be more painful, but I also think Spurs have a better chance against them than against Athletic in a final in their own stadium.” This is surely right, though I’m not really a fan of same-country European finals.
72 mins: The ball pings and also pongs around Tottenham’s penalty area for a while, with a couple of defenders improvising backheeled clearances to stop Bodo/Glimt from having a third shot.
71 mins: That’s Tottenham’s 19th shot of the match. Their season high is 24, against Manchester United in September.
70 mins: … from which Romero heads a food wide of the far post!
69 mins: Bissouma does well to steal the ball inside the Bodo half. It runs to Solanke, whose shot deflects off a defender’s boot for an eighth Spurs corner.
66 mins: Bodo/Glimt have also made a second substitution, bringing Auklend on for Määttä.
65 mins: That substitution has now been made, and the game has restarted.
64 mins: Maddison is on the floor, and has been since the goal. He doesn’t exactly look in agony, but there’s clearly an issue with his right calf/knee/something in that limb, it’s not worth taking any chances and Dejan Kulusevski is getting ready.
GOAL! Tottenham 3-0 Bodo/Glimt (Solanke penalty, 62 mins)
Solanke takes his slow, stuttering run-up, and as Haikin takes half a step to his left, rolls the ball the other way!
61 mins: Solanke places the ball.
Tottenham have a penalty!
60 mins: Both players tried to volley a bouncing ball in the area. Romero got the ball, Sjovold got there second and made contact with Romero’s calf. There was no intent and not a huge amount of contact, but it was a foul.
60 mins: After Romero goes down the ball pings around a bit, ending with a shot rebounding off a defender into the referee, who stops the game. He’s now been called over to the monitor to have a look at that incident.
59 mins: Romero goes down inside Bodo’s penalty area after a coming-together with Sjovold, and I think Spurs might end up with a penalty here.
57 mins: Bjorkan earns the game’s first yellow card, for landing his foot on top of Johnson’s as he tried to poke the ball away.
55 mins: Gundersen goes down on the touchline under the most feeble pressure from Johnson. The referee gives the free-kick, and Johnson is a bit miffed about it.
54 mins: Another Spurs corner, which is headed clear to Udogie, whose deflected shot is gathered by Haikin.
52 mins: Tel wins the header from the corner, but doesn’t control it at all, and Bodo collect the loose ball and launch a briefly vaguely threatening break.
51 mins: A foul is rather generously given for a foul on Van de Ven on Tottenham’s left. Maddison takes the free-kick and this time Bodo do with the header, but the ball bounces behind for a corner.
48 mins: It was in fact a linesman who had pulled his calf, and he has now swapped roles with the fourth official. “Still second halves and second legs to play of course,” writes Gareth Beale, “but has it occurred to anyone that if the promoted teams had been just a little better we could have had the weird situation of an English team in the championship playing in the Champions League?”
46 mins: Peeeeeep! Finally, Spurs had the game restarted.
Now the rest of the players, and the officials, are coming out. Bodo are also going to make a substitution, bringing Brede Moe on for Nielsen.
The players actually haven’t come out – only Tel has. Apparently the fourth official has suffered a strained calf, forcing a delay while the officials reshuffle.
The players are on their way out for the second half, and Mathys Tel is among them. He’s coming on for Richarlison, who had a wonderful first minute but didn’t achieve much thereafter.
Half-timely scorecheck:
Premier League
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Brentford (65 minutes played)
Europa League
Athletic 0-3 Manchester United
Tottenham 2-0 Bodo/Glimt (obviously)
Conference League
Djurgarden 0-2 Chelsea
Real Betis 1-0 Fiorentina
Half time: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Bodo/Glimt
45+2 mins: Spurs have controlled – yes, you read that right – a half of football, scored two goals, and take a deserved lead into the break.
45+1 mins: Bodo/Glimt have a chance! Maatta beats Udogie on the right and crosses, Blomberg’s diagonal run from the left to the near post coincides perfectly with the arrival of the ball, and he volleys over from about eight yards!
45+1 mins: There’ll be about two minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half.
44 mins: Surprisingly the two teams have attempted and completed a very similar number of passes. Spurs have done almost all of the dangerous attacking, but they’ve been quite direct about it. Not a lot of extraneous passing going on.
41 mins: Another long ball out of defence for Spurs. Solanke profoundly outpaces a lumbering Gundersen to reach it first, but the defender gets back to block the shot.
39 mins: Save! Bentancur chests down a clearance and slams a volley from the edge of the area that was roaring into the net until Haikin turns it over the bar (I think Udogie took the ball out of play in the build-up, so perhaps it wouldn’t have counted).
38 mins: Spurs have now had 10 shots, three of them on target (I’m not sure those Bissouma volleys should count, mind). Bodo have had one shot, and it wasn’t on target.
GOAL! Tottenham 2-0 Bodo/Glimt (Maddison, 34 mins)
For the third time already Spurs play a high pass from their own defensive line – Porro this time – behind the Bodo defence. Maddison runs on to it, his first touch takes him wide of goal but forces Haikin to shuffle across, his positioning now uncertain, to cover him, and then he scuffs his shot, which bounces behind two covering defenders and inside the far post!
