Glenavon's manager Nigel Best will be relying on the power of the telephone when his side take on Legia Warsaw in tonight's European Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round second leg in Poland.

Best is a Belfast school teacher and is unable to travel to Warsaw due to a clash with a seminar which he is conducting.

He intends keeping in touch with his assistant Colin McCurdy by a 90-minute telephone satellite link between Belfast and Warsaw.

"It is not ideal but it is the best we can do in the circumstances," he said.

The teams drew 1-1 in the first leg at Mourneview Park two weeks ago.

Best has omitted midfielder Jonathan Prizeman from the starting line-up in favour of wing-back James McCartan, a second-half substitute in the first leg.

Glenavon will operate with three centre-backs in an attempt to shut down the Poles. Gary Smyth, recovered from a summer groin operation, returns to play alongside Nigel Quigley and Paul Byrne with Tony Grant and Glenn Ferguson the twin strikers.

Skipper Lee Docherty, a former Northern Ireland international who has made more than 30 European appearances for Glenavon and Linfield, said: "We can do a job. I'm confident we can perhaps get something out of this game."

Goalkeeper Dermot O'Neill was equally confident after today's training session. "We troubled them in the first leg when they looked vulnerable at the back. There is a feeling we can upset them again."

Glenavon, however, are very much the under-dogs against a team packed with Polish internationals and who have an outstanding European record with victories over Manchester United and Rangers.

"Our approach to the Poles will be positive," said McCurdy. "We are not in any way inferior even though we realise the magnitude of the task. We won't lose out on commitment or organisation."