Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley has warned his players not to go gung-ho in their quest to overturn the deficit to Ballkani in the second leg of their UEFA Conference League third round qualifying clash at Tallaght Stadium on Thursday night.
The Hoops are trailing to Sunday Adetunji's goal in the Fadil Vokkri Stadium last week and must score to have a chance of progressing.
Bradley’s men were far from their best in the clash in Kosovo and an improvement will be needed to reach a play-off round, likely with Portuguese side Santa Clara.
Asked what the approach will be to overturning the 1-0 scoreline from six days ago, Bradley told RTÉ Sport: "It’s just do what we do, it’s perform to the levels that we know we can perform to.
"We know we always create chances and score goals and we've just got to be nice and relaxed and understand what we do works.
"We don't need to go chasing the game from the first minute, we have to respect them but when we get our moments we have to try to punish them.
"Our focus is to try and win the game.
"If that comes in 90 minutes, extra-time penalties, whatever way it comes it comes, you can't control that.
"What we can control is our performance and if we look after our performance everything else will be fine."
The Tallaght side have been near faultless in the Premier Division in recent months and cruised through their Conference second round clash with St Joseph’s, leaving many predicting that they would have too much for Ballkani.
However, Bradley feels tomorrow's opponents are strong and will prove a difficult nut to crack, as evident last week.
He likened them to Slovenian outfit Celje, a team the champions-elect disposed of last year in a Europa League qualifier in what was one of their best European performances under the former Arsenal player.
Bradley said: "I said before the first game they remind me very much of Celje and I felt that again after we played them. I thought they were very, very similar.
"Their wide players are good, the centre forward (Adetunji) is a handful. It was nothing that we didn't expect and nothing that we didn’t see coming. We just got to make sure we're better in every department on Thursday.
"We want to go as deep as possible in Europe.
"We want to win the league. We want to win the FAI Cup. We’ve said that from day one, there's no shying away from that, that's why we're here. That's what this team and this club is about. Can we do it? Time will tell.
"But if you want to go deep in Europe, we've got to make sure we win Thursday, obviously. We've got to make sure that we're at our levels."
Graham Burke returns from injury in a boost for the home side, but the now fit Jack Byrne and Aaron McEneff will not be available after being omitted from the squad submitted to UEFA for these matches.
He said he will look to his senior players as well as using some recent additions to the squad.
"It is important to get that mix but I think the group as a whole is really experienced," Bradley stated.
"I think if you look around the group we've got a lot of players that played a lot of games in Europe throughout the year so we've got a lot of experience.
"That will be needed at different stages but it's important you get that mix right."
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