“Rangers’ European run will be a welcome distraction from the pressures of league football. The comeback last night wasn’t too much of a surprise, the result in Belgium was just a case of Rangers not turning up. Rangers would’ve known that if they’d shown the levels that they have previously in Europe then they were going to turn the deficit around.”

“PSV and Monaco were two of the toughest fixtures they could’ve got in the next round. Rangers will take pride in a lot of the results they’ve previously had over the last two or three years. You only need to look at last season with RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund. Rangers were under-dogs for both ties and ended up winning both, also beating teams like Feyenoord and Benfica before that so Rangers have shown that they’re more than capable of playing in Europe.”

“Rangers aren’t at a disadvantage with the extended cup run. If you look at some of the Rangers players last year, they played upwards of 60 games and were still finishing strong towards the end of the season. The fitness of the squad is next level, even worldwide players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are very rarely injured and obviously Celtic have the same fixture congestion with the World Cup being so early in the football season. Most teams will have almost 26 games towards the World Cup break. Clubs recruit in the summer to cope with fixture congestion and I’m sure the mentioned clubs will feel as though they have done just that.”