Bodø/Glimt 0-0 Lille: a goalless draw gives Lille their first point of the Champions League campaign

Bodø/Glimt and Lille shared a goalless draw in Norway, a result that leaves both clubs in the bottom third of the Champions League's 36-team table but means rather more to the visitors than the hosts. It is Lille's first point of the league phase, after three straight defeats to open their campaign, and it arrived in a game neither side managed to turn into the kind of chance that usually settles these contests.

Bodø/Glimt's front line of Jens Petter Hauge and Ole Didrik Blomberg could not find a way past a Lille defence that had conceded 10 goals in its first three Champions League matches, and Olivier Giroud was introduced from the bench for Lille in search of a winner Les Dogues never created. The only card of the night went to Nathan Ngoy, booked for Lille with seven minutes left, by which point both sides looked content to take the point on offer rather than risk losing it.

A first point after three defeats out of the gate

For Lille, the context is what makes the draw worth more than a point suggests. They had opened the league phase with defeats to Real Betis, Arsenal and Galatasaray — the last of those a 2-4 scoreline at home — scoring five goals across those three games and conceding ten. A trip to Bodø/Glimt, a side already responsible for one of this season's Champions League upsets, was not an obvious place to end that run, and Lille's ability to see out a clean sheet on the road says something about a defence that had looked exposed in open play through the opening month of the competition.

Bodø/Glimt stay a point shy of the play-off line

Bodø/Glimt's own European season has swung wildly: a 5-0 defeat at Bayern Munich on matchday 1, a famous 1-0 win away at Borussia Dortmund on matchday 2, and a 4-3 defeat at Napoli on matchday 3 in which they scored three without getting anything from the game. Against that backdrop, a goalless draw at home is a quiet result, but it keeps the Norwegian champions ticking over rather than losing further ground — their issue through the league phase has been leaking goals rather than failing to score them, and for once in Bergen they did neither.

Both results sit either side of the cut-off

The draw leaves the two sides either side of the line that currently separates the Champions League's knockout play-off places from elimination. Bodø/Glimt's four points put them just outside the top 24, while Lille's solitary point leaves them deeper in the bottom third of the table — a reminder, with four matchdays still to play, of how much work is left for both clubs if their European seasons are going to extend into February.

Match facts

• 83' — Nathan Ngoy booked (Lille)
• Aspmyra Stadion, Bodø — Champions League league phase, matchday 4, Tuesday 3 November 2026

What's next

Bodø/Glimt stay 25th in the league phase on 4 points from four games, just outside the knockout play-off places that run from 9th to 24th. Lille move to 35th on 1 point, still deep in the bottom third of the table, but with a first point of the campaign finally on the board heading into the final four rounds.