Shelbourne

Linfield supervisor David Healy says his facet are “stuffed with perception” that they’ll overturn their one-goal deficit from the primary leg of their Champions League first qualifying spherical tie in opposition to Shelbourne when the groups meet once more at Windsor Park on Wednesday night time.

The sport can be broadcast reside on BBC iPlayer and on the BBC Sport web site, with the sport kicking off at 19:45 BST.

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The League of Eire Premier Division champions take a into the return fixture because of Mipo Odubeko’s second-half strike at Tolka Park final week.

Healy believes the Irish Premiership champions stay effectively within the tie nonetheless and has indicated that they may undertake a extra offensive strategy to the sport in Belfast whereas not beginning out in a “gung-ho” style.

“It’ll be an enormous problem however we’re stuffed with perception coming into it. We’re nonetheless barely behind the eight-ball however one factor we cannot do is be gung-ho from a really early stage.

“We’ll look to place extra stress on in fact however you do not wish to waste 95 minutes of arduous work to be out of the tie 15 or 20 minutes on this week.

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“We must be stronger in possession. We have got to verify we’ve good choices, higher choices than we did final week.”

The 95-times capped Northern Eire worldwide provides that earlier expertise in continental competitors ought to stand his group in good stead and he expects “a a lot improved efficiency” from his facet.

“Nearly all of the lads within the dressing room have been by means of the highs and lows in European competitors.

“It’ll be arduous however we’ve a robust file at Windsor Park and these gamers imagine there is a chance.

“We gave the ball away cheaply [in the first leg], weren’t capable of maintain the ball to create the alternatives. I’ve little doubt we can be higher in possession [in the second leg].”

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The south Belfast facet can have Chris Shields getting back from suspension for the second encounter with Shels.

“Shelbourne will benefit from the large open pitch, they’re an excellent footballing facet with good gamers who can deal with the ball in tight conditions, they’re very neat and tidy on the ball,” continued Healy, who will take cost of the Blues for a five hundredth time.

“We did not have sufficient possession final week to go and damage Shelbourne. Hopefully this time, with one other week’s coaching beneath our belt and having had a take a look at them, higher health among the many gamers, and with a robust assist behind us, we will.

“I am simply asking the gamers to exit and carry out as I do know they’ll do, extra on the entrance foot. Momentum is essential.”

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‘Away video games so totally different’

Shelbourne supervisor Joey O’Brien welcomes the truth that his facet go into the second assembly with their opponents with a one-goal benefit however is anticipating a very totally different sport.

“Away video games in European competitors are so totally different and the lads know that. Wednesday night time is a totally totally different sport.

“We’ve a small benefit. The lads have seen them on the pitch – their pace, their motion, how good they’re, so you might have that really feel of who you’re up in opposition to now.

“These are the form of video games you wish to be concerned in however in the end it is about who goes into that subsequent spherical.”

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The winners of the tie will face Qarabag of Azerbaijan within the second qualifying spherical, with the losers dropping into the Convention League qualifying second spherical the place they may play the defeated facet between FK Zalgiris of Lithuania and Hamrun Spartans of Malta.

Watch highlights of each Champions League sport from 22:00 on Wednesday on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport web site and app.

There can even be a Champions League Match of the Day on BBC One on Wednesday, from 22:40 to 00:00.