Champions League debutants Bodo/Glimt and Pafos claim unlikely away draws

Bodo/Glimt and Pafos each earned improbable draws away from home in their first Champions League matches on Wednesday.

Two of this year’s European Cup debutants were in action at the same time in Wednesday’s early games, playing perhaps two of their kinder fixtures, with Bodo visiting Slavia Prague as Pafos faced Olympiacos.

Bodo have greater European pedigree than Pafos, having reached last season’s Europa League semi-finals, but their introduction to the Champions League threatened to be a brutal one.

Slavia left-back Youssoupha Mbodji scored in either half to give the home side a 2-0 lead, his second goal coming with just 16 minutes to play.

But Bodo, who had earlier squandered a penalty as Kasper Hogh’s effort was saved, staged a remarkable recovery in the closing stages to draw 2-2.