With their comfortable aggregate victory over FC Midtjylland, Rangers booked their place in the Playoff Round of Europa League qualifying.
Their opponents at the fourth and final stage are Legia Warsaw after they sneaked past Atromitos Athens.
Encouragingly, the Polish giants haven’t enjoyed the best of starts to their league campaign. Heading into today’s fixture, they had won one, drawn one and lost one in the Ekstraklasa, scoring just three goals in those opening three matches [Soccerway].
However, they picked up a welcome three points and confidence boost on Sunday afternoon.
They defeated Zaglebie Lubin 1-0 at the Polish Army Stadium, courtesy of an excellent 19th-minute glancing header from Marko Vesovic.
The wing-back got ahead of his marker from a corner and steered his effort beyond the sprawling keeper.
Judging by that goal, the Gers should be ready for another side who, like Midtjylland, can be dangerous from set-pieces.
Although the hosts emerged with a clean sheet, they did exhibit defensive fragility at times, which should encourage the Rangers forwards.
Shortly after the hour mark, the Legia defence parted to allow a Zaglebie forward through to score, but the goal was eventually ruled out courtesy of an extremely tight VAR call.
Then, in injury time, Legia keeper, Majecki, was called upon to make a sharp reflex save after an opposition player was allowed a free header in the area.
Not a perfect or overly convincing performance from Rangers’ opponents then. Nonetheless, the victory is bound to give them confidence ahead of the first leg which takes place on Thursday evening.
