Ibrox icon Brian Laudrup is banking on a trio of stars to have games of their lives – and send Rangers racing into the Champions League group stage.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side face the Dutch giants in the first leg of the playoff tonight in what will be a raucous atmosphere on the southside of Glasgow. Laudrup knows the players will need to be on point against Ruud van Nistelrooy’s men, with little margin of error available.
And the former winger has picked out three key men he believes must be at the top of their game so the Dutch can be vanquished. Laudrup is counting on John Lundstram – a huge influence in Rangers’ march to last season’s Europa League Final – to again be pivotal. He said: "Against PSV Eindhoven, I will be looking to big-game players such as Lundstram. When Lundstram plays in European football, he really comes alive. That's why he is trusted so much on the big occasion by van Bronckhorst."
