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.

Veteran midfielder and captain Hans Vanaken has come up with big moments in the Champions League regularly for Brugge and is good for a goal and an assist from midfield. If Rangers give up 27 shots, like they did in Plzen, they will be punished by Brugge despite their lack of a clinical centre forward.

Rangers are two games away from making it into the Champions League proper as they vie with Club Brugge for a place in the league phase of the competition. The two sides will contest a spot over two legs with the Scottish side having already progressed through the second and third qualifying rounds.