The Champions League playoffs finish off this week and we will know the final six teams who get to anticipate in the group stage this season. Among the hopefuls looking to get there are Bodo/Glimt, who have a chance to make it to the group stage for the first time in club history. The Norwegian champions enter the second leg against Dinamo Zagreb with a 1-0 lead.
Bookmaker 10bet has the odds at 1.64 for Bodo/Glimt to advance and at 3.75 for them to win the game outright. The odds are at 1.83 for Dinamo to win the game and at 2.25 for them to qualify.
※ Current Odds Date & Time: August 23th, 7:30 A.M. (EST)
The two teams combined for an incredible 28 shot attempts in the first leg last week in Norway, but they are separated by a single Amahl Pellegrino goal. The 32-year-old forward has been in superb form throughout the Norwegian Eliteserien season and he’s been a major force in Europe as well with four goals and two assists in six games.
Pellegrino will enter Wednesday’s action having scored 13 times in his last nine appearances and his work over the course of the season includes 21 goals in total. He rarely stays off the scoresheet and keeping Pellegrino quiet should be the No. 1 priority of Dinamo’s game plan.
The Croatian side has a lot more experience in Europe and Dinamo have featured quite regularly in the Champions League group stage. The team’s European campaign ended in the Europa League playoff phase 12 months ago, but they went all the way to the quarterfinals in the competition a year prior, which shows that they are a quality side.
Zagreb’s main man is Mislav Orsic, who famously bagged a hat trick to take down Tottenham in the successful 2020-21 Europa League campaign. The 29-year-old has registered three consecutive seasons with 20-plus goals and is well on his way to posting another one in 2022-23, having netted six times already in 11 appearances across all competitions.
Big things are expected from Dinamo after the club appointed former Croatia boss Ante Cacic as manager for the season. He lost just four of 25 games in charge of the national team but couldn’t hang on to the job during a rocky 2018 World Cup qualifiers campaign. Croatia went on to have enormous success at the World Cup and Cacic might feel hard done by how things went down at that time. He should have plenty to prove to the local footballing community and getting Dinamo back to the Champions League group stage will definitely boost his reputation again.
