After heavy defeats against Ajax and Napoli, Rangers may have been thinking they could have done without a double header against Liverpool.
Then again, that would be a tad defeatist. True, Gio van Bronckhorst's men need to get points off the board after being blown away in their opening two Champions League Group A fixtures. Their slim hopes of making it out of the group will be ended with two defeats to the Reds in their next two encounters. At this stage, perhaps the best they can hope for is sneaking into third place and keeping their Euro campaign alive by dropping into the Europa League. However, even that looks a big ask at this stage.
Jurgen Klopp 's men have only won two matches in the English Premier League this season and were held at the weekend by Brighton and even found themselves 2-0 after just 17 minutes. Just a couple of hours earlier, Rangers cruised to a 4-0 win against 10-man Hearts at Tynecastle to temporarily go top of the Scottish Premiership before Celtic returned to the summit with a 2-1 victory over Motherwell.
