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Mark Walker

Rangers have starstruck Saint-Gilloise star giddy but team-mate boasts 'I'm not nervous'

Buzzing Ross Sykes admits he's living the dream with Union Saint-Gilloise after going from Accrington Stanley to a shot at Rangers in the Champions League.

The Europa League finalists travel to Belgium to face their league runners-up in Leuven for the first leg. Union have got off to a good start this season with a draw at Sint-Truiden and a home win against Charleroi. Sykes, 23, netted the game's only goal at the weekend after his surprise summer move from Lancashire club Accrington to Belgian football.

And he admits he has to pinch himself that he's gone from the English League One club Stanley, who have an average attendance last season of 2,776, to a chance of testing himself against the Europa League runners-up. He said: "Playing against Rangers in the Champions League is the kind of match you dream about when you are a kid growing up.

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