Last season’s run to the Europa League Final is again set to pay off big time for Rangers – IF they qualify for the Champions League.
The Gers supercharged their coefficient by going all the way to Seville, where they lost a gut-wrenching penalty shootout to Eintracht Frankfurt on a sweltering night in Spain. Gio van Bronckhorst guided them to the Champions League this term after successfully negotiating two qualifying rounds and dumping out Dutch side PSV to reach the lucrative group stage.
But the Light Blues were given a brutal reality check after being drawn in a group of death alongside Liverpool, Napoli and Ajax. They failed to pick up a single point and took on the unwanted mantle of having the worst record of any team to have played in that stage of the competition. They conceded a whopping 22 goals in their six games, which included a club-record defeat after Liverpool dismantled them 7-1 at Ibrox.
