Legia stars warn against complacency against Dundalk - ‘Anything can happen in 90 minutes’

“We cannot lose focus or feel as if we are comfortably going to progress, it’s not over yet.”

Legia stars warn against complacency against Dundalk - ‘Anything can happen in 90 minutes’

Dundalk’s 3-0 victory over BATE Borisov in Tallaght was widely acclaimed as perhaps the best ever performance and result by an Irish club in European competition, writes Liam Mackey.

So perhaps the true measure of the task which faces them in the second leg of their Champions League play off against Legia Warsaw in Poland this evening is that, away from home, the SSE Airtricity League champions will have to effectively eclipse even that stunning achievement if they are to salvage their dream of becoming the first League of Ireland team to qualify for the group stages of the competition.

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