Bilic asks Croatia to put Euro 2012 party on hold

Any premature celebrations over a 3-0 win in Turkey in the first leg of their Euro 2012 playoff could be fatal for Croatia and invite history to repeat itself, coach Slaven Bilic said ahead of Tuesday's return game.Although they have one foot in next year's finals in Poland and Ukraine, the Croatians will take nothing for granted against the team that knocked them out of the Euro 2008 quarter-finals after equalising with the last kick of extra time.With the score 1-1 after 120 minutes, the Turks won the penalty shootout and sent their fans into raptures in Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium but they were powerless against a galvanised Croatia side in Istanbul on Friday."I don't think we will ever be able to get the 2008 defeat completely out of our system but we have already forgotten the game in Istanbul," Bilic told reporters."The first thing we all said in the dressing room was that we are only halfway through our task because we face a difficult 90 minutes on our own turf."We will head into the game confident after earning a three-goal cushion in the Turk Telekom Arena, where all the pieces came together for us."Although he will miss suspended defender Vedran Corluka and midfielder Tomislav Dujmovic, Bilic has plenty to choose from in a squad eager to kickstart a party in Zagreb's Maksimir stadium.Danijel Pranjic will stand in for Corluka at left back while Ognjen Vukojevic should step in as the holding midfielder and Borussia Dortmund's in-form forward Ivan Perisic could be preferred to veteran striker Ivica Olic.