Norwegian national coach Solbakken says Sporting players sabotaged their own team at Bodo

[p][b]"[a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/sporting-cp/tljXuHBC/"]Sporting[/a] have deadly attacking players who usually do the job for them. They became lightweights; they had two who didn't do the defensive work up front. It was almost sabotage"[/b], he said to NRK after the match.[/p][p]UEFA statistics show that star striker [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/suarez-luis/fV4fAvB8/"]Luis Suarez[/a] covered 9.2 kilometres throughout the entire match. As many as three of the Sporting players who played the entire match ended up running less than 10 kilometres.[/p][p]In comparison, all ten [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/bodo-glimt/S0WZMUNG/"]Glimt[/a] outfield players who started the match ran more than 10 kilometres. In total, the Norwegian team ran 123.5 kilometres against Sporting's 113.2.[/p][p][b]"We were far from where we wanted to be. It's tough for us", [/b]said coach [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/borges-rui/vocqEUBt/"]Rui Borges[/a] at the press conference after the match.[/p][embed guid="9cb851fe-6e65-41c0-a8bd-550766e2257b" url="https://x.com/ChampionsLeague/status/2031860509146800533" social-type="twitter" /][p]Bodo/Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen did not use as strong words as Solbakken.[/p][p][b]"No, I will not express myself like that. They have two incredibly good players, and we were given a surprising amount of space in the first half"[/b], Knutsen said to NRK after the match.[/p][p]He believes Sporting's top players rose above the rest in the match.[/p][p][b]"I feel they put in more work in the second half and were a bit surprised by how solid or how good we were in our free play. That is exactly the scenario we have been working on a lot"[/b], Knutsen said.[/p]