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Efe: Euro rivals don’t frighten us – Lenny’s

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EFE AMBROSE admits avoiding Neil Lennon’s wrath is driving Hibs’ Europa League exploits.

The 29-year-old Nigerian insists the gaffer’s return to the dugout tonight after a UEFA ban is both good news and bad.

A third round first-leg qualifier against Norwegian side Molde awaits and Ambrose is determined to keep the anger management at a minimum.

He said: “You know the manager is coming to you when you’re not doing things and you expect that from him if you’re not getting things right.

“He’s the kind of manager you need sometimes to get where you want to be.

“He’ll always tells you to your face if you didn’t get it right or you’re not trying your best or in your best form. He’ll tell you if you let the team down or if something is your fault and he’ll get in a rage if we don’t play well as a squad. He has helped us be strong mentally because coming in to face him is something else.

“We never want to see him like that so we always try to please him and he gets the best out of us that way.

“You have to understand him because some people just hear him raging at us and he was like this on the

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