UEFA Cup News
Blackburn boss confident ahead of Celtic clash
Submitted By Sandeep
on Wednesday 13th November 2002
Graame Souness believes that Blackburn are capable of overturning Celtic's 1-0 advantage and get themselves a place in the third round of the UEFA cup.
Blackburn will be without skipper Gary Flitcroft and Martin Taylor, the task will be made even harder, but Souness who used to manage Celtic's bitter rivals Rangers is remaining upbeat.
He said: "Our strengths are going forward and going after teams and we will try and do that tomorrow. I have got good players, I have honest players.
"We will try and play the same way as we did in Glasgow. But I expect a very different game.
"I expect Celtic to try and stop it being a game like it was first time round.
"I expect us to be aggressive going forward and hopefully aggressive when we are defending.
"It will be interesting to see how Celtic approach the game holding a 1-0 lead, what their attitude will be like.
"If I felt they had a weakenesses I am not going to tell you. I will talk about my team, where we are weak, where we are strong.
"I can't see us having that much of the ball again as we did at Parkhead and not doing anything with it. We controlled the game for a ridiculous amount of time.
"We lost 1-0 but we think we are in a great position to go through and that's our aim.
"There will be some really big names in the next round of the competition. I am sure Martin O'Neill is like me, he will want to compete against some of those big names.''
Irishman Damien Duff is back after the last match through injury, but he won't be the only Blackburn player providing firepower, with David Thompson, Keith Gillespie, Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke also in the squad.
The fans are sure to get an open encounter full of actions with Blackburn needing a goal, but it's important to remember that Celtic too are more than able in an attacking capacity. |
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