Daryl Horgan: Dundalk must show no fear

Having drawn a team of proven European pedigree in the Champions League, Dundalk’s Daryl Horgan thinks it’s important the club learn a lesson from last season’s narrow Europa League exit to Hajduk Split, when the Lilywhites lost the home leg 0-2 before going to Croatia and winning 2-1.

“We probably feared Hajduk Split a small bit (in the first leg), maybe gave them a bit too much respect,” he reflects, “whereas we went over there and beat them and had them on the ropes. If we’d got one more goal we would be through.”

While Horgan accepts that BATE Borisov are a step up again in quality, he insists that Dundalk should have no inferiority complex about taking on the Belarus side.