Source: PA
Redknapp: We'll throw everything at Milan
Harry Redknapp will urge his team not to restrict their attacking principles and insist they throw everything they have got at AC Milan when they take on the Italian giants on Wednesday.
Redknapp's team hold a 1-0 lead thanks to Peter Crouch's late strike in the first leg of the last-16 tie in the San Siro two weeks ago. The club's debut season in the Champions League has been characterised by a series of stunning attacking performances which has seen them rack up 25 goals in nine pulsating matches.
At the same time, they have shipped 14 goals at the other end, leading to suggestions they will find it hard not to concede an away goal on Wednesday night despite the first leg shut-out.
But Redknapp insists that with a squad blessed with the attacking talents of Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Rafael van der Vaart, he will find it impossible to tell his side to sit back and hold out for a goalless draw.
"When you have that advantage in a two-legged game, if you sit back and think you have the lead then you find yourself in trouble," Redknapp said.
"We have to treat it as a one-off and we have to go for it. We're at home and we have to go and try to win the game. It's not natural for us to sit on a 1-0 lead for 90 minutes. We will pick an attacking team and have a go at them, that's how we have got to play."
