Thousands of football fans have voted after the official UEFA Europa League Twitter account pitted Rangers and Borussia Dortmund against each other in a pre-match poll.
The two sides are set to do battle in the first leg of their Europa League knockout playoff tie at Signal Iduna Park tonight.
It’s an exciting challenge for Rangers against a top European club and they’ll have to be at their best to keep the tie alive going into next week’s second leg at Ibrox.
The visitors have been boosted ahead of the game by the news that Erling Haaland has failed to recover from a groin injury in time to feature, despite taking part in training on Wednesday.
Highly-decorated former Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Juventus midfielder Emre Can is also unavailable to Dortmund manager Marco Rose due to suspension.
Rangers aren’t at full strength either, though.
Ianis Hagi is a long term absentee and Leon Balogun has been ruled out with a muscle injury.
That’s drawn attention to Gio van Bronckhorst’s decision to leave Filip Helander out of the European squad, as it’s likely that Calvin Bassey will once again have to fill in at centre-back.
Dortmund are big favourites for the first leg on their own patch and it seems most people are backing them to come out on top overall, too.
Rangers and Dortmund face off in pre-match poll
This morning, the official UEFA Europa League account tweeted a poll with the caption: ‘Which team goes through?’
Within hours, thousands of votes had been cast and although the poll will remain open for another 20 hours or so, it seems clear that it’s a win for Dortmund.
At the time of writing, after 8704 people had had their say, the German giants had 66.3% of the votes to Rangers’ 33.7%.
Bears will be hoping it’s a much closer contest on the pitch this evening.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old talent is targeting a first-team breakthrough at Ibrox in the near future.
