Rangers have taken a big step towards their first European quarter-final for 14 years. James Tavernier and Alfredo Morelos struck in a hurly-burly first half before Leon Balogun headed into the net at the start of the second to give the Scottish champions a plump cushion to take with them for next week’s second leg in Belgrade.
However the Rangers manager, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, warned that Red Star remain a threat. “We played really well. If you’d seen the game you would think more goals were in it, also for them,” he said. “We go to Belgrade next week, it is going to be hard, maybe harder than today. We have a three goal difference to take with us but this tie isn’t over yet.”
