The 37-year-old spent the summer coaching 17-year-olds at TPS in Finland and is looking to build on that experience at Motherwell.Free Motherwell V Inverness CT Stream Free Online Video Of Scottish Premier League Sunday 2nd September 2012 Kickoff and Time Table scheduled for 16:00 CET.Five teenagers played for Motherwell during their 1-0 Europa League defeat by Levante in Spain on Thursday night and with Stevie Hammell (hamstring) and Michael Higdon (Achilles) nursing injuries, manager Stuart McCall could have to field another youthful team when Inverness visit Fir Park.Johansson is the man charged with preparing the Under-20s for the rigours of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League and he appreciates the task requires an all-encompassing approach.
"It's a great challenge for me as a new coach to come to a club like this, which plays in Europe and is one of the best teams in Scotland,'' Johansson told MFCTV.
"It's known for having a great youth system, a lot of the players in the Under-20 team play for the first team.
"It's a great challenge to help these 17,18 and 19-year-olds break into the first team.
Shaun Hutchinson is suspended while Steven Saunders remains on the sidelines after knee surgery.
Inverness are boosted by the return of Richie Foran from suspension.
The Highlanders will be without Nick Ross (shoulder) and Chris Hogg (knee) for the clash at Fir Park.
Boss Terry Butcher has no other injury or suspension worries as they look to build on the midweek Scottish Communities League Cup win over Arbroath.
Motherwell captain Keith Lasley : "It was a bit of the same old story with our European campaign.
"Apart from the home leg against Levante, we've done ourselves justice.
"Unfortunately, from the outside looking in, it doesn't look great with the scorelines.
"But certainly again we put on a decent show and we might have found ourselves ahead in the game and you never know what could have happened."
Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Terry Butcher : "It was nice to have a good solid team performance on the back of a poor display against Celtic.
"The lads felt rightly aggrieved after the Celtic game that we had been judged immediately on that one match.
"In the three previous games, we had done very, very well. In five games this season, one we haven't really performed in and four we have done very well in.
"Wednesday night was a case of just getting back out on the pitch again and the whole team was just eager to show that they are good players and that we have had a good start to the season.
"We know what we are up against. We had a mixed bag of results against them last year and we know what they can do."
"It's a great challenge for me as a new coach to come to a club like this, which plays in Europe and is one of the best teams in Scotland,'' Johansson told MFCTV.
"It's known for having a great youth system, a lot of the players in the Under-20 team play for the first team.
"It's a great challenge to help these 17,18 and 19-year-olds break into the first team.
Shaun Hutchinson is suspended while Steven Saunders remains on the sidelines after knee surgery.
Inverness are boosted by the return of Richie Foran from suspension.
The Highlanders will be without Nick Ross (shoulder) and Chris Hogg (knee) for the clash at Fir Park.
Boss Terry Butcher has no other injury or suspension worries as they look to build on the midweek Scottish Communities League Cup win over Arbroath.
Motherwell captain Keith Lasley : "It was a bit of the same old story with our European campaign.
"Apart from the home leg against Levante, we've done ourselves justice.
"Unfortunately, from the outside looking in, it doesn't look great with the scorelines.
"But certainly again we put on a decent show and we might have found ourselves ahead in the game and you never know what could have happened."
Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager Terry Butcher : "It was nice to have a good solid team performance on the back of a poor display against Celtic.
"The lads felt rightly aggrieved after the Celtic game that we had been judged immediately on that one match.
"In the three previous games, we had done very, very well. In five games this season, one we haven't really performed in and four we have done very well in.
"Wednesday night was a case of just getting back out on the pitch again and the whole team was just eager to show that they are good players and that we have had a good start to the season.
"We know what we are up against. We had a mixed bag of results against them last year and we know what they can do."