The Faroese dream of the Champions League lives on. The small club’s fairytale continues after beating Norwegian champions

Norwegian champion Molde entered yesterday’s Champions League preliminary round match against Klaksvik as favourites. The Faroese club continues to write a great story and feed the dream of the Champions League.

It seemed like a no-brainer. After all, Norwegian football is still miles ahead of the Faroese one. Paper assumptions, however, play no part in Klaksvik’s case.

Klaksvik is currently the best team in the Faroese league and the reigning champion, and they are going for the top spot this season. However, few expected how much trouble they would give their opponents in the Champions League preliminary round matches.

Here he first measured his strength against Hungarian Ferencváros, with whom he managed to draw the opening match 0:0. This might not have been such a sensation, but the big shock came in the return match. The Hungarian side took three hits before half-time, which they could not answer in the next forty-five minutes.

Even the Swedish champion couldn’t find a recipe for them. Hacken, like his predecessor, failed to score in the opening game and took a goalless draw into the home rematch.

The rematch offered a hundred and twenty minutes of goal scoring that was decided by penalties, which both clubs took after a 3-3 draw.

Even the champion club from Norway has not found a recipe for the small club so far. Molde took the lead shortly after the start of the second half, but did not keep it.

Klaksvik turned the tide by the end of the game and after two goals from Arni Frederiksberg they take a very promising result into the rematch.

It is the thirty-one-year-old midfielder who is the central figure in the club’s current success. He has scored six goals in five games, a respectable number considering their opponents.

Where will their journey continue? If they make it through the return leg and advance to the next preliminary round, their last opponent will stand in their way. That will be one of the Olimpija Ljubljana/Galatasaray pairing.

Source: Twitter, Livesport