NEIL Lennon has called on his side to replicate last week’s performance when they meet AIK in the return leg of their Europa League play-off tomorrow night (Thursday).

Celtic will face the Swedish champions at the Friends Arena in Stockholm one week on from their 2-0 win at Paradise. A positive result in tommorrow's game would secure Celtic a place in the group stages of the competition.

Goals from James Forrest and Odsonne Edouard have given Neil Lennon’s side the upper hand for the return leg, but the Celtic manager insists his team will not go into the game looking to sit in and defend their lead.

“We’re a front-foot team,” said the Hoops boss. “We’re not going to ask players to do something alien in the space of two or three days. Setting up defensively might be a recipe for disaster.

“AIK are dangerous. They won at the weekend, they have good strikers and in Seb Larsson they have a very experienced, quality player who’s a threat at set-plays. Set-pieces are something we have to be very wary of. They have a good mentality and will believe the tie’s not over so we have to respect that as well.”

AIK rarely threatened the Scottish champions in the first leg and Neil Lennon attributed that to Celtic’s attacking play. The Hoops manager called for more of the same tomorrow night and said the only factor he could account for was Celtic playing attacking football.

“If the time runs down they might come out and have a real go at us or they might do that to start with,” he said. “They may be patient, let us have the ball and counter-attack us. I can’t predict it but what I can predict is we’ll play how we want to play and impose our game on them.

“We know we’re capable of scoring goals and we’ve shown that this season. If we can score one that would put us in a tremendous position in the tie.

“The psychology of the tie could change if AIK get ahead of stream and we have to be prepared for that. We have players in the team who are very dangerous and we proved that last week. We can’t sit in for 90 minutes, we may be forced to sit in at times and there may be moments in the game where we have to weather but we’re capable of being positive and scoring goals.”

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