Two goals within two first-half minutes from Kasper Hogh and a curling strike from Jens Petter Hauge just before the hour mark did the damage for the hosts.
Rayan Cherki’s deflected strike pulled one back for City before Rodri was sent off after picking up two yellow cards within 54 seconds to dampen our comeback hopes.
We now have 13 points from seven league phase fixtures and our hopes of automatic qualification into the knockout stages of the competition rest on other results going our way, and also on next Wednesday’s final league phase encounter against Galatasaray at the Etihad.
Ait-Nouri, who was deployed at right-back for the encounter in Norway, has promised that the team will do everything they can to be ready for the crucial game.
“To be honest today it was a tough game. We tried to push in the first-half and tried to score a goal. We made some mistakes in the first-half and they scored two goals.
“For sure we still will be together and we need to be ready for next week because we have one more game against Galatasaray at home.
“For sure we will prepare for the game against Wolves this Saturday and will try to give our best for the next week.
“We have one game against Galatasaray next week. We need to be ready, to prepare for the game in training.
“For sure, we’re still together because we have an unbelievable group. We will hopefully make a great game next week.”
Watch Ait-Nouri’s entire interview with City Studios via the video at the top of the page.
