Bayern München × Bodø/Glimt · Champions League

Bayern host Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League on Thursday 10 September at 20:00 BST. The tie sets one of the continent's most consistent clubs against a representative of Norwegian football that has built a European reputation by doing what almost nobody expected from a club based that far north in Scandinavia.

The format has given this kind of fixture weight it did not previously carry. Because there is a single table, Bayern must turn favouritism into points and into goal difference, not simply into a win. For Bodø/Glimt, every trip like this measures how far the project has come, and a result in Germany would serve as an argument well beyond this season.