Sporting staged a stunning comeback to beat Bodø/Glimt 5-0 after extra time and reach the Champions League quarter-finals with a 5-3 aggregate victory in their last-16 tie.
Trailing 3-0 from the first leg in Norway, Sporting attacked from the kick-off and went ahead in the 34th minute when Gonçalo Inácio headed in from Francisco Trincão’s corner.
Bodø/Glimt struck the crossbar before half-time, but Sporting scored again when Pedro Gonçalves swept in Luis Suárez’s cross in the 61st minute. The hosts levelled the tie when Suárez converted a penalty in the 78th after a video assistant referee review for a handball.
Sporting needed less than two minutes of extra time to score the fourth as Maxi Araújo slotted in, with the substitute Rafael Nel adding a fifth in added time, ending the Norwegian side’s fairytale run and sending the back-to-back Portuguese champions through.
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