A potential £40 million prize awaits but in the first leg you couldn’t slip a fiver between Rangers and PSV Eindhoven. And now that lucrative place in the Champions League group stage will go on the line in the Philips Stadium in the second leg.
A ding-dong battle with the Dutch side ended with the sides sharing four goals on a nervy, entertaining night at Ibrox. The sides went toe to toe, both enjoying the lead at one stage and both being pegged back.
In the end they simply couldn’t be separated as they slugged it out for a tension-filled 90 minutes in front of the watching Sir Alex Ferguson. Ivorian Ibrahim Sangare fired in the opener but Rangers roared back and Antonio Colak netted his fourth goal in as many games before Tom Lawrence netted a free kick with 20 minutes left after a huge blunder by PSV keeper Walter Benitez. But that lead last just eight minutes as Armando Obispo headed the Eredivisie side back level and it’s now all to play for across the North Sea next week.
