RB Leipzig boss Domenico Tedesco revealed he’s going to kip at his club’s training base in order to escape the fuelled-up Rangers fans taking over his hotel.
The former Spartak Moscow boss is still living in a plush city centre lodgings while he looks for a permanent base after making his return to Germany in December.
But with Gers chiefs expecting as many as 7000 travelling supporters to make their way to Saxony, the influx of fans has forced Tedesco to change his sleeping arrangements ahead of Thursday's huge opening Europa League semi-final clash with the Ibrox outfit.
However, the 36-year-old fears it's his side’s chances of reaching the final that could be put to bed if they don’t wake up to the threats of Gio van Bronckhorst’s outfit.
He said: "First of all we are happy that a lot of Rangers fans will come to the city.
"They pay the hotels, pay the restaurants, they buy beer so it is good for the economy of Germany.
"Also, in my hotel, we are living in a really good hotel in the centre and they told me that 200 fans are coming to the hotel so I will sleep here in the academy in the next two days.
"But we are happy, playing at home with a good atmosphere is the best that can happen.
"I am happy to play here and I am already happy to play at Ibrox so we have to collect these moments, that's the most important thing in football, to collect moments and situations and we are very happy.”
Leipzig ousted Italian outfit Atalanta to make the last four but saw their 15-game unbeaten run shattered by Union Berlin at the weekend.
Now Tedesco has warned his team they will face more misery if they don’t take Rangers’ threat seriously.
He said: “Like Atalanta or most recently Union Berlin, Glasgow is a very robust, physically strong, man-oriented and defending team.
“In general, Scottish football is much more one-on-one.
“If you let the Rangers come into play, their physicality allows them to crush any opponent. This is also shown by their last results, where they were able to win against Borussia Dortmund and SC Braga - and not even close.”
