Thursday 26 February 2015 17:25, UK
Celtic boss Ronny Deila has challenged his team to make history when they take on Inter Milan at the San Siro on Thursday evening.
The Scottish champions came back twice to draw 3-3 with Inter in the first-leg of the last-32 Europa League tie at Celtic Park last week.
Substitute John Guidetti's injury-time strike kept European hopes alive after Celtic struck twice in 73 seconds to level the match in the opening half following a disastrous start which saw then trail 2-0 on 13 minutes.
But Celtic have yet to win in 11 visits to Italy and Deila concedes his side will have to step up a level if they are to break that record and get into the last 16.
"It is going to be a tough game, of course, and we need to win here,” the Hoops manager said.
"But everything is possible in football and if we have our best performance this season and have a little bit of luck, then we have a chance.
"We have everything to win and we are going to go for that victory and go through.
"We created chances and scored three times last time so we have to get Inter Milan in trouble again but we have to defend in a better way.
"A lot of the things we did in the last game was good but we have to defend even better. If we can get a historic win here then it would be the moment of our lives."
Celtic consolidated their position at the top of the Scottish Premiership on Sunday with a 4-0 victory over Hamilton Accies.
And the Norwegian has been delighted with his team’s consistency, with Celtic undefeated in 11 games in four competitions.
"It is important to win matches and get confidence,” Deila said. "We also got confidence from the home match against Inter.
"We saw that we could match them and create chances and that is important. Tomorrow is going to be a very interesting game, exciting, and we are really looking forward to it.
"I feel we have a good chance because we are in good shape now and we have good confidence.
"As I said, we have everything to win so we have to go out there and give everything and be even better organised and then we will get our chances.
"But we can't concede three goals again. Hopefully we have a clean sheet but we have showed we can score a lot of goals and hopefully we can get one more than our opponents."
