You couldn't have written the script. As bad boy Alfredo Morelos sat at home after being banished from the Rangers squad it was the man who has filled his boots this season who scored the glory goal to end a 12-year wait to take the club back to the promised land of the Champions League as Giovanni van Bronckhorst was rewarded for the boldest of calls.
Many questioned the decision of the Dutchman to leave Morelos behind as his team jetted out to Holland for a winner-takes-all playoff second leg. But it paid off big style as he put all of his faith - and a potential £30 million - onto the shoulders of Antonio Colak. The former PAOK Salonika man, signed for just £1.8 million in the summer and written off in the first couple of weeks of his Ibrox career, delivered with the only goal in the Philips Stadium to seal a 3-2 aggregate win to make up for eliminating Gers from the Champions League in Malmo colours last season.
It was a nerve-shredding night in the heat of Holland but Colak kept his cool to slot away the simplest of chances in the second half - his fifth goal in a Gers shirt - as the visitors punished PSV for schoolboy defending as Van Bronckhorst won the battle of the Dutch legends to leave Ruud van Nistelrooy gutted and ensure Rangers name will be alongside Celtic's in the group stage draw in Istanbul on Thursday tea time.
