Champions League: Inter Implodes Against Bodø/Glimt — Italy Left in Doubt

They needed a miracle. They got a slap.

Beaten 3-1 in Norway, Inter never found a way back. A 2-1 loss at San Siro. Out 5-2 on aggregate. And beyond the numbers, a feeling of helplessness that chilled Giuseppe Meazza.

Against a bold, disciplined and ruthlessly efficient FK Bodø/Glimt, Inter walked out of the Champions League the ugly way. To whistles. To doubt.

A fatal slip — the stadium goes quiet

Inter started with intent. Dimarco kept sending balls in. Frattesi pushed on. Akanji tried to tidy things up at the back. But the fragility showed sooner than later.

From the build, Manuel Akanji hesitates. Too slow. Too long. Blomberg bursts in, confronts Sommer. The Swiss keeper parries. Hauge follows and buries it. 0-1. Silence at the stands.

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That mistake flipped the script. It handed the Norwegian block the confidence it needed. It summed up a team that unravels the moment pressure rises.

Bastoni pulled one back later. But Evjen had already struck on the break. Too late. Too little.

An impotent Inter, a surgical Bodø

Inter had the ball. Lots of it. But inside the last 30 yards there was nothing. Dimarco’s crosses found no one. Barella ran himself into the ground. Zieliński fired shots that never worried anyone.

Bodø mixed pinpoint pressing with lightning transitions. The first goal came from intelligent pressure. The second from a clean central move. This wasn’t luck. It was a plan executed to the letter.

In his press conference, Cristian Chivu admitted the opponent was the better side. Nicolò Barella blamed individual mistakes. Their words were measured. The pictures were brutal.

The Italian press shows no mercy

Headlines slammed down the minute the final whistle blew. “Debacle”. “Humiliation”. “Catastrophe”. Papers tore into the lack of intensity, the failure to unlock the tie, the energy gap.

On social media, players were ripped apart. Akanji’s error. Thuram’s squandered chances. Some leaders with zero impact. Nothing was spared.

In a European season already bruising for Italian clubs, this exit leaves a stain. Napoli’s slipping. Juventus are fighting for survival. Atalanta walk a tightrope.

Inter — recent finalists against Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain — were supposed to be the proof the revival was real. Tonight they looked like the problem.

A worrying sign for Italian football

This was more than an exit. It was a diagnosis.

The gap in intensity, in mental freshness, in collective coherence was on display. Bodø/Glimt played free. Inter played tense.

Norway keeps stinging Italy, months after the national side’s disappointments. While Bodø celebrate a historic night, Italian football asks where it really stands in Europe’s pecking order.

San Siro has hosted nights of glory. This one will go down as a slap.

And slaps can wake you up. Now it’s down to Inter to prove it learned anything.

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