No, you won't win.
I don't want to crush your dreams, but no one in Poland is assuming Lech won't advance. We'll play a completely different game at home. We might give you the ball for the first 15-20 minutes so you can run around and get tired. And then players with a history of being in the TOP5 will score 2-3 goals.
The stadium will be so noisy you'll barely hear your own cheering. We have a large stadium with a capacity of 43,000. In 2012, this stadium hosted the EURO 2012 participants. We currently have around 35,000 tickets sold. We'll be screaming for 90 minutes.
The Polish Football Association allows any team playing in European qualifying to suspend any two league matches. Lech is so confident that they haven't suspended the match they'll be playing on Saturday.
The Polish runner-up, playing Galatasaray (they lost 1-0 in the first leg), is postponing their league match. We are not. Frederiksen believes that each additional match played will better prepare us for the season.
A draw will be a major disappointment. As a national association, we want to finish 10th in Europe this season, which automatically guarantees the Polish champions a spot in the Champions League. This is our big goal, which everyone understands and is working towards. Losing ranking points would be met with enormous criticism. Every point is important, so we won't field our reserves, we won't play our youth, we won't give up.
This is our stadium setup from three years ago. We DREAM of the Champions League, because in the entire history of Polish football, only two teams have ever played in the Champions League, and the last time was 10 years ago.
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