Bordeaux midfielder Yoann Gourcuff is relishing the pressure as the Ligue 1 outfit prepare to host Olympiacos in a battle for a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Laurent Blanc's men have one foot in the final eight after triumphing 1-0 in Greece a fortnight ago and are now looking to complete the job on Wednesday.
Should they do so it will be Bordeaux's first appearance in the quarter-finals of Europe's premier club competition since 1988 and Gourcuff is looking forward to the challenge.
"It's obvious that it's nice," he told the official club website.
"There's pressure for this match, that's true, but it's positive.
"It's great to be playing a Champions League last-16 tie in front of our supporters.
"We're in a good position to qualify. To be playing to qualify for the quarter-finals in our own stadium is something lovely.
"It's up to us to see to it that we have a wonderful night."
Gourcuff has warned his team-mates against the danger of underestimating Olympiacos, who will not have given up on their Champions League dream.
"They lost their first match so they will want to put everything into this match," he added.
"They're not going to ask themselves too many questions. They're just going to try to attack and put us in difficulty.
"They have their backs to the wall, so they will try to put us under a lot of pressure at the beginning of the match.
"It's up to us to play intelligently and to recover the high balls in their area."
Since securing a 1-0 victory in Greece, Bordeaux have struggled somewhat domestically, drawing against Montpellier and Monaco and losing to Auxerre.
Les Girondins have seen their lead at the top of the Ligue 1 standings evaporate to nothing, although they do have a game in hand on Montpellier, who are now level on points, and other teams immediately below them.
Gourcuff knows victory tomorrow could serve as a timely boost for their title defence.
"The league and the Champions League have nothing to do with each other," he said. "The matches are different.
"But if we manage to progress it's true that it would boost the whole group and everyone at the club.
"It could only do us good."
Bordeaux captain Alou Diarra.is back after playing his first 90 minutes against Monaco since his injury at Rennes at the beginning of February.
History is against Olympiacos as only once has any team lost the first leg at home but then progressed to the next stage - when Ajax were beaten 1-0 by Panathinaikos before triumphing in Athens in the 1996 semi-finals.
Moreover, the Greek outfit have only won two away games in the competition - with their last success coming nearly three years ago.
Bozidar Bandovic's men are facing even more of an uphill battle after the news that Diogo, Dudu Cearense and Jesus Datolo are all out of the clash.
Top goalscorer Konstantinos Mitroglou has recovered from a broken nose, however, and featured at the weekend, while Oscar Gonzalez and Michal Zewlakow were fit enough for places on the substitutes' bench so could start.
Olympiacos will be hoping for some joy after a miserable league campaign.
They are six points off Super League leaders Panathinaikos, who they play this weekend and face the very real prospect of not winning the title for only the second time in 13 years.
