Manager Martin O’Neill expects Celtic to come under severe pressure in their Champions League play-off second leg – but stressed they will not simply try to protect their advantage.<\/p>\n
They lead Austrian champions LASK 3-0 from the first leg and arrive in Linz on the cusp of a return to the league stage.<\/p>\n
O’Neill cautioned straight after that impressive victory that the tie was not over, given LASK created a series of chances and had two goals chalked off for offside.<\/p>\n
“They will get opportunities to attack and they are a formidable team, there’s no question about it,” said the Celtic boss, who hopes to have defender Austin Trusty available after a stomach upset caused him to miss training on Monday.<\/p>\n
“I expect to be put under pressure quite a lot, but we just can’t sit in there, and that’s not our intention at all.<\/p>\n
“I feel as if we’re capable of scoring a goal in the game, and that’s at least grounds for optimism. It’ll be a tough old night for us, but we’re capable.<\/p>\n
“We want to try and get through. We’ll throw absolutely everything at it to do so.<\/p>\n
“I think that if we could qualify, it would give us a massive lift in every aspect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Martin O’Neill expects Celtic to come under severe pressure in their Champions League play-off second leg –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-868179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}