Coolen: We will gamble
RINI COOLEN admits Rosenborg must take risks if they are to rescue their Champions League hopes against Celtic tonight.
Interim boss Coolen, who took over just before the trip to Glasgow after Rosenborg axed boss Kare Ingebrigtsen, reckons they’ll have to gamble to try to upset the odds and secure a meeting with AEK Athens in the next round.
Coolen said: “Celtic deserved the win last week and in the end we were lucky we didn’t lose more goals.
“But hopefully we can do some things differently. We are playing at home and we have our supporters.
“We have a chance to win the game but we have to create those circumstances and yes we have to take some risks and yes we have to give away some spaces but we will not open the door.
“We know things happen in football you don’t expect.
“But realistically it will not be easy. Celtic have a bigger chance to go through than us but it doesn’t mean we don’t have a chance at all.”
Rosenborg skipper Mike Jensen does not have to look too far back to find reasons to be hopeful.
After the Norwegian side were knocked out of the penultimate Champions League qualifier last season by Celtic, they were paired with Ajax in their Europa League play-off and beat the previous season’s finalists home and away.
Jensen said: “It is always small margins and some luck and sometimes you need that. But we have to step up from the game we played at Celtic Park.”