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Home comforts help trio close in on Champions League

Former winners Red Star Belgrade are on the verge of missing out on playing in the Champions League group stage after losing the first leg of their play-off tie.

The 1991 champions will head back to Serbia trailing 2-1 after going down to Bodo/Glimt on Tuesday night.

Odin Bjortuft's brave header in off the underside of the bar put the hosts in front seven minutes into the second half before Isak Dybvik Maatta curled in a brilliant second just after the hour to leave the Norwegian champions on course to reach the competition proper for the first time.

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