Rangers v Club Brugge
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The Club Brugge manager has revealed that his men “knew where the spaces were” in the Rangers team before they took to the field at Ibrox.
RANGERS have already come through two qualifying rounds just to get to this point. ut if they’re to reach the promised land of the Champions League, Russell Martin’s men will need to
Rangers have left themselves a mountain to climb next week in Belgium after losing 3-1 at home to Club Brugge in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie.
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Rangers are having a difficult star to the season but can hugely improve it in the Champions League play-off round when they take on Club Brugge. New manager Russell Martin has started Rangers’ Scottish Premiership campaign with back-to-back draws against Motherwell and Dundee.
Brugge made it through the group phase and beat Atalanta in the first knockout round before losing to Aston Villa in the last 16, so they've got European pedigree which is why they're 13/10 favourites to win ths first leg even though it's at Ibrox.
Rangers head coach Russell Martin: "We gave them a goal with the first kick of the game in our half. "We concede a crazy goal and don't respond to it anywhere near as well enough as we should and then we concede a goal we shouldn't - we don't do our jobs from our set play, which is really frustrating.