Champions League, second qualifying round: While the locals have done just about everything to suggest Rosenborg are headed for a meeting with Deportivo La Coruna in the next round of these Champions League qualifiers bar holding this afternoon's pre-match press conference in a tapas bar, donning sombreros and practising their Spanish on their visitors from Dublin, Stephen Kenny arrived in Trondheim yesterday still insisting the tie is not entirely beyond his side, who trail 1-0 from the first leg.

The Bohemians manager will wait as long as possible before deciding whether Bobby Ryan is fit enough to start tomorrow evening's game and may, he insists, find room for Fergal Harkin even if the Limerickman makes it - in that event, Mark Rutherford is the most likely to be dropped.

Kenny is likely to stick with Colin Hawkins in the centre of his defence, however, despite the ongoing Achilles problem that prevented the centre back training over the weekend.

Despite the concession of a rather soft goal from a corner, Kenny was generally impressed with the way his back four contained the Norwegians last Wednesday but hinted at disappointment with how most of his attacking players failed to impose themselves on the game.

"Don't get me wrong," said the manager, "they're an excellent team but I think our forwards will probably feel that they can still make more of a mark here. I still think that we can create chances in this game, I know it's a step up for us but we usually do. What we know, though, is that while eight of the 11 that started last week played well we need all 11 to perform this time if we're really going to pull it off."

Glen Crowe, he says, will be crucial. The striker has scored against every other team he has come up against in European competition.

"He's made a huge contribution to the club's progress over the past few years and he got a hat-trick against Waterford the other week and then the goal against BATE so he's come into a bit of form. We could do with him being at his best in this game too," said the manager.

Kenny maintains that if Rosenborg play as they did in Dublin they are still beatable. "What we don't know is whether they could take their game to another level if the situation called for it; that's what we're about to find out."

Having played 37 Champions League games at home since 1995, most in the group stages and the vast majority against teams from the continent's very biggest leagues, but lost just six times, Aage Hareide's side are likely to have an extra gear if required.

Hareide certainly seems confident and the club have already included the Deportivo games in their official list of fixtures.

Fate has a way of punishing such presumption but it would rank as perhaps the greatest achievement ever by an Irish side in Europe if Bohemians leave for home early on Thursday without a chirpy "adios amigos" ringing in their ears.