Cork City boss John Caulfield has told his players attack is the best form of defence ahead of their Europa League clash with Linfield on Thursday night.
Cork hold a 1-0 first-leg advantage in their first qualifying round tie, after squeaking a victory at Windsor Park thanks to Sean Maguire's penalty.
The winners of the tie will travel to Sweden next week to face BK Hacken, but Caulfield has called for caution and focus at Turner's Cross as the Airtricity League Premier Division side look to finish the job.
“There’s still a lot of work to be done," he said. "I said from the start that this would be a 50-50 game.
"I said it wouldn’t be a typical European game as both clubs would be going at it hell for leather. We have a massive job to do once again tomorrow night.
"Being 1-0 up is an advantage but it would be foolish to think that the game wasn’t in the balance.
“Linfield play very direct. They play 4-4-2, they don’t mess around, they play ball into the channels and have young Paul Smyth playing in behind. They play a lot off setpieces and you could see that (last week) because every setpiece that they got inside our half and every corner, the delivery was good.
“When we got it down and passed it, we caused them problems.
“We plan on going on the attack. We didn’t have any particular approach last week, we felt we could win the match. We felt we could score and tomorrow night, we don’t see any difference.
"We’ll be at home, we know the way they’ll play. We just have to be on our game and be ready from the start. You’d be foolish to go out and sit back. Our plan is to go out and score, and that’s the only way to approach it.”
Caulfield is hopeful a couple of niggling injury concerns will clear up in time for the game.
“Alan (Smith) hurt his ankle in training a week ago," he added. "He won’t be involved in the game tomorrow and will be out for about three weeks.
"We were hoping to have John Kavanagh back involved, certainly for the Fulham match, but the news for him isn’t good either and he’s out for another four weeks.
“Regarding the lads that were involved last week, we’ll give him every opportunity to be involved. Some of them took part in light training this morning (Wednesday). A couple of them are touch and go, but we’ll wait until kick off because it’s such a good game.
“Michael (McSweeney) is okay again. He had only been back in training a couple of days before last week’s game, so we decided not to play him. He’s trained away this week though so he’s back in contention.”
Club captain John Dunleavy will miss the game because of a long-term injury, while John Kavanagh and Alan Smith are also sidelined for the encounter. Karl Sheppard, Steven Beattie and Greg Bolger are all rated as doubtful and will be assessed closer to kick off.
Injury News: John Dunleavy (out), John Kavanagh (out), Alan Smith (out), Karl Sheppard (doubt), Steven Beattie (doubt), Greg Bolger (doubt).
