RIKARD Norling, the AIK head coach, has promised the second leg of their Europa League play-off against Celtic this evening will be a completely different to the match at Parkhead last week.

The Swedish champions played with five at the back in Glasgow and hardly tested their Scottish counterparts’ keeper Craig Gordon in a game they lost 2-0.

But Norling, who will have his first choice striker Tarik Elyounoussi available for the game in the Friends Arena, has warned his players they can’t afford to be naïve.

“We have had the opportunity to analyse the first leg thoroughly,” he said. “We know that it can be different in the Friends Arena. There are things that we have seen that we would have done anyway.

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“Are there areas of Celtic we can exploit? If I say no to that question, it would be terrible because there is always something that you think you can use or you hope you can use.

“How much do we go for it? We can’t be naive because we are facing a very good side with a lot of individual skill who are good on the transitions. We need to be clever at the same time.

“It’s all about us. It’s about us on our own pitch. That’s what we take our steps from. It is important that playing on our own pitch is advantage, but how big it is will only be shown by the result. There is definitely power here to start with.

“The first goal will be important of course. We have to talk about how to attack the game and maybe divide it into different stages.”

Norling, like his opposite number Neil Lennon, has a massively important derby game coming up this weekend. His AIK side will play Allsvenskan leaders and Stockholm rivals Djurgarden on Sunday.

But the 48-year-old is determined to secure a place in the group stages of a European competition for the first time in seven years before that crucial league game.

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“We have two massive games coming up,” he said. “Celtic have the same. I don’t know how they look on this game, but their next one is definitely a big one. The good thing with this game is that I think both sides go into it with the same set-up and the same mindset.

“How big would it be if we qualify? I have been in the group stage before so it wouldn’t be the first time. AIK is the same. As a club are quite big in that sense, we just need to do it more often.

“I don’t think any of us would get carried away in any sense. It would mean that all the hard work we have put in over a long time would pay off.”