20 July 2011 22:44
Martin Jol said Fulham need to be on their safeguard against Crusaders in the 2nd leg of their Europa League qualifying tie.
Fulham won the first leg of the second-round tie 3-1 in Belfast last Thursday and are overwhelming favourites to build to the 3rd round.
But the English Premier League side were granted a blow in the first leg, as the semi-professional Northern Irish team managed to equal in the second-half before conceding two late goals.
"Of line if you are 3-1 up its invariably a full score but we bear to be focused, we get to focus and not let them score because that's another target - don't concede," Jol said.
"We will score goals, we've got good players."
Jol will take two new faces at his disposition for the match, after the club completed the signings of former Roma defender John Arne Riise and Czech Under-21 international Marcel Gecov this week.
Riise arrives at Craven Cottage after three seasons in the Italian capital, having already spent seven days in the Premier League with Liverpool.
Defensive midfielder Gecov signed for an undisclosed fee from Czech side Slovan Liberec on Wednesday.
"I ask of him (John Arne Riise) that he'll bring the same function as he ever did for Liverpool, for Roma - especially for Roma, because there were really good stories around him," Jol said.
"They probably wanted to support him but he cherished to go backwards to England and that helped us to get a participant of his character so he will act tomorrow and he's only here for 5 days."
"Gecov? Yeah (he) signed and I'm happy with him.He's a very talented player."
"I'm happy with the line we get done so far but as you live we lost six or seven players in a pair of months time so we want to get a pair of players to get a really good, strong squad."
Riise said he was hoping to slot straight into the position for Thursday's tie against Crusaders, and insisted the society was attached to release as far as they could in the competition.
"You can see at the squad the manager puts out.He wants to work to win.I guess we're in this competition because it's capital to be in Europe," Riise said.
"And care I said two days ago, I came to the final (which Fulham lost 2-1 to Atletico Madrid) which was a big accomplishment for the club.If we can get something similar today, this year, this is leaving to be awesome."
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