Kasper Schmeichel
Former Celtic goalkeeper on TNT Sports

Kasper Hogh is a player I know we were after last season and he had a great season for Bodo/Glimt.

He is a perfect fit for how Martin O'Neill wants to play.

He's a good character, he can hold the ball up and he'll get on the end of crosses from wide areas.

Scott Brown
Former Celtic captain on BBC Sportsound

The main thing for Celtic is not to concede easy corners and not give away easy free-kicks.

Because we're sitting here looking at the LASK players, and they are huge.

If I'm looking at this as their manager and wondering how we can get one over on Celtic, they could play through them too, but I'm thinking, can we go bully them? Can we get it down the line and pull them out of position?

Kasper Hogh will have a different type of game tonight too against a back three.

On Mika Baur coming in to start this evening, Celtic boss Martin O'Neill tells TNT Sports: "He's a fine little footballer. He gives us extra energy in there. He will give us the energy we need.

"It will be really strange [to hear the Champions League music], I must admit. I thought those days were gone. I'll try to enjoy the moment.

"We'll try our very, very best [to qualify], that's all we can do."

This tie marks another surreal moment in a whirlwind year for Martin O'Neill.

"I didn't think last September or October that I'd be sitting here now thinking about a Champions League game," he said. "If I was, I'd certainly be watching it on TV."

It has been more than 20 years since O'Neill managed a Champions League match, or even a qualifier. His record as a manager in the competition stands at six wins from 18 matches.

In three qualification attempts for the competition, he has been successful twice. There was also a Uefa Cup final appearance in 2003 and he made it to the quarter-finals the following year.

A two-legged play-off against LASK stands between an older and wiser O'Neill and a return to the pinnacle of club football, where he could flex his European pedigree.

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Not one, but two former Celtic goalkeepers on media duties tonight.

Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel will be giving their views on the telly.

No goalies will be getting any grief tonight, that's for sure.

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BBC Sport Scotland

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The calamitous Champions League play-off defeat by Kairat Almaty a year ago isn't lingering at the back of Cameron Carter-Vickers' mind as Celtic enter the fray at the same stage this season.

The defender's European experience last season was a difficult one - he ruptured an Achilles tendon against Sturm Graz in October and didn't play for the rest of the campaign.

All water under the bridge as far as Carter-Vickers is concerned.

"The reality of it is as a football player, you've got to get over the losses the same way you do the wins," he said.

"When you come down from a big win, you've got to go again the next week, so right now it's not really on my mind personally. But we're aware this game does come with massive consequences, so we are ready."

Pat Bonner
Former Celtic goalkeeper on BBC Sportsound

Camilo Duran has pace, but he hasn't got Daizen Maeda's pace.

That's one thing missing from this team at the moment, that lightning pace that can frighten people.

You have to make up for it in a different way, and maybe the combination of the three attackers is how you get over it.

Andy Burke
BBC Sport Scotland at Celtic Park

This final round of qualifying for the Champions League has proved troublesome for Celtic for some time.

They have automatically qualified for the league phase in recent times, but their past five ties in the play-off round have all ended in defeat, with last season's exit to Kairat Almaty perhaps the worst of the lot.

With the likes of Kasper Hogh and Camilo Duran impressing since their arrival this summer, Celtic look stronger than they did at this time last year, but tonight will tell us plenty about this side's readiness to step up to top-level European competition.

Celtic will have to deal with more mental pressure than LASK Linz in their quest for Champions League qualification, says the Austrian champions' head coach Dietmar Kuhbauer.

The 55-year-old guided LASK to a league and cup double last season and his team have started this campaign with four straight wins.

"We believe in ourselves," he said. "Celtic have a little bit more pressure because everybody knows Celtic.

"We are a small club, but still a good club. But for Celtic, it's more pressure than for us.

"But I don't go into my meeting and tell the guys they [Celtic] have more pressure.

"We have to believe in ourselves. We have 90 minutes and we have to play at the highest level. We don't care if they have more pressure."

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LASK ended a 61-year wait to win the Austrian Bundesliga for just the second time last season, finishing two points above runners-up Sturm Graz.

The fact Sturm went on to thump Hearts 6-0 over two legs in Champions League qualifying earlier this summer highlights the quality Celtic are going to face.

LASK have not lost a game since March and are unbeaten in their past 12, winning 10 of them.

Four of those victories have come in a relentless start to this campaign, in which they have scored 16 goals.

Attacking midfielder Christoph Lang (six) and striker Samuel Adeniran (five) have already netted 11 of those goals between them. American forward Adeniran also scored 15 times last term.

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Celtic's big-money summer arrivals start in attack.

They scored 10 goals between in the Champions League last term, Kasper Hogh and Camilo Duran.

Can they replicate that in green and white?

They were bought for these nights.

Martin O'Neill refused to put a ceiling on what is possible for Celtic at Champions League level, using the club's 1967 European Cup triumph as a benchmark.

"I've said all along, I think the bar was set here way back in 1967," he said. "And from then on, I believe that Celtic should be aspiring to that.

"We may never, ever, ever get there. And obviously with the way that the financial market has moved in football, it's getting more and more difficult for a team from Scotland.

"But that aside, you should still be aspiring to it. That's what we want to try and do. We may never get there, but this is the bar that's been set down.

"The football club won the European Cup, and really, that's what we should be trying to do. We will make an all-out effort to try and make it."

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Almost exactly a year ago, Celtic were preparing for Kairat Almaty in a Champions League play-off defeat would ultimately set the tone for a campaign of chaos.

In the following months, Brendan Rodgers suggested his team had too many Honda Civics and not enough Ferraris amid a troubling run of form.

Ten months on, Martin O'Neill - the man who saved Celtic's season - has been provided with two Champions League-proven supercars in attack as Austrian champions LASK visit Parkhead.

"Of course it became a major disappointment not to qualify for the Champions League [last season]," O'Neill said.

"But I think based on what happened the previous year [reaching the knockout stage], it then became doubly disappointing not to make it.

"Overall I think that the players who are still here at the football club, they may well remember [last year], they may well think that they've got something to do to try and achieve this time."

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Midfielder Mika Baur comes in for his first Celtic start. Nae pressure.

The new arrival, who made his debut off the bench at Dundee United on Saturday, replaces the suspended Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Meanwhile, Kieran Tierney comes in for Liam Scales at left-back and Sebastian Tounekti is swapped for Yang Hyun-jun.

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Celtic: Sinisalo, Donovan, Carter-Vickers, Trusty, Tierney, McGregor, Baur, Nygren, Yang, Duran, Hogh.

Substitutes: Doohan, Scales, Balikwisha, McCowan, Tounekti, Osmand, Hassan, Kenny, Hatate, Murray, Forrest, Ralston.

LASK: Jungwirth, Mbuyamba, Tornich, Andrade, Jorgensen, Danek, Ljubicic, Horvath, Bello, Usor, Adeniran.

Substitutes: Schutzenauer, Schillinger, Freckleton, Smakaj, Bogarde, Schopf, Verhaeghe, Dibango, Lang, Flecker.

Austrian champions LASK stand between Celtic and a return to Europe's top table.

Twelve months on from a humiliating Champions League exit to Kairat Almaty, Martin O'Neill and his players are out to erase that pain.

The team news for tonight's play-off first leg has landed.

Let's get going...

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