The green rectangle of plastic grass glistened without hint of the demons that are allegedly lurking and the Bodo/Glimt players Fizzes smoothly with arctic drizzle.
Around them, employees were busy adorning the Aspmyra Stadium with the final garnish for the biggest night, repairing UEFA branding in the right areas and TV cables around the simple stands.
Furthermore, the silence of a Norwegian fishing city where the day broke at 3 o'clock. The calls of the seagulls, the rumbling of a tractor that spreads rubber crumb over an artificial training pitch and an occasional fighter jet that tears through the air during a training exercise.
Little else was stirred in Bodo when Tottenham descended.
The Champions League determines its two finalists in the midst of the trembling passion of the San Siro and Parc des Princes. There will be 80,000 in Old Trafford Willing Manchester United to complete the victory over Athletic Bilbao.
Here came the expectation with a small Scandinavian understatement, but there was no one as if it didn't matter. Yellow flags, scarves and shirts were displayed in windows and porches while fans offered their team support.
Spurs can be 3-1 after the first stage, but nobody gave up hope.
“It is the biggest night and the biggest competition I have experienced,” said Jens Petter Hauge, who left Bodo/Glimt for AC Milan in 2020 and won the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt before returning to his hometown club last year.
'It doesn't matter where you are going or who you meet, in the garage or the shopping center, everyone is looking forward to it and everyone says they have tried to get tickets and it is impossible. That shows you how much it means. '
Tottenham dominated the first stage until he has admitted a late goal and will be confidence despite the reactions after the Bodo Rechtsback Fredrik Sjovold match who ridiculed the attempts of the Premier League team to press them in mistakes.
Sjovold, 21, claimed that they had been 'Ræva', which was 'very bad' in his most experienced translation, and that he had played against better in Norwegian football.
Bodo -Baas Kjetil Knutsen tried to put it aside, and put it down on 'inexperience' and yet it has become a talk point in Norway, where the feeling is that the team of Ange Postecoglou was nothing special.
And she can still rattle that Bodo/shines when they first score in the Aspmyra, where the home record is impressive.
In 10 home tires in this European campaign, which started in July in the Champions League qualifications, the Norwegian champions won nine, including victories against established clubs such as Lazio, Olympiacos, Twente, Besiktas and Red Star.
For more than five years they have only lost six of the 37 home tires and beat Roma 6-1 after switching postecoglou's Celtic.
Their artificial pitch is to blame and criticized, but on Wednesday Knutsen said: 'We are in the first place a good football team. Like most teams, we are better at home than gone.
'The grass we have is what we play on. It is due to the climate. And the more you play on it, the better you get. At home we learned to trust ourselves over time. It is a good pitch and good players can easily adapt.
“There is a lot of talk about things that we can't do much about, but we will see a good Tottenham team and hopefully a strong Bodo/Glimt team.”