When Covid-19 suddenly stopped the world in March 2020, it also marked the derailment of the European race that reintroduced Rangers to a continental audience after so long on the stickers.
A few hours after Steven Gerrard’s team has been surpassed 3-1 for the last 16 years against the draw against Bayer Leverkusen on Ibrox, blinds have been knocked down in football across Europe and Momentum Rangers had won with a number of attractive results.
A 4-2 added success from Ianis Hagi-inspized Braga had established this draw with the Germans, who would continue to finish work with a 1-0 win in Germany when the second hand was finally rescheduled at the end of that year.
Europe had become a distant memory during the difficult years after administration, and the eventual return of the club to continental action in 2017 ended in misfortune in the hands of Progres Niederkorn.
So that the race under Gerrard really served to give the supporters a sense of belonging again. After all, such deep races in Europe don’t appear very often, right?
Well, the following season, the forest guards simply caught where they stopped. An amazing European Group D campaign has seen in unbeaten and is a section with a section with Benfica, Standard Liege and Lech Poznan.
Connor Goldson leads the inquiry as Rangers grants Leverkusen on Ibrox in March 2020
Moussa Diaby Scores in the second stage with covid delay, which ended the Rangers European Run
Rangers stars are left to contemplate the agonizing defeat of the shooting against Frankfurt in 2022
They scored nine goals on two legs while seeing Antwerp in the 32 round before loosening Slavia Prague when a fourth end against Arsenal was there for the socket.
Still, two major seasons of European progress. Restored reputation.
But they didn’t end there. The next campaign may have started with the deflation of a painful defeat in the Champions League Play-Off to Malmo, but ended in an evil race for the European League final in Seville, where only the cruelty of a penalty shootout in the 1972 European World Cup World Cup pup to the success of the European World Cup Cup Cup Cup. ‘
A breakthrough for the Champions League the following season proved to be a worrying alert and the abyss between the two main tournaments in Europe and the dangers of an unpleasant draw at the group stage.
However, season 2023-24 brought with him another group finish in the first place and one last race that ended only in an aggregate defeat by 3-2 for Benfica.
Cyriel Desers opens the score at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium within six minutes
Again, this season’s failure to clean the qualifying obstacle to the Champions League-Dynamo Kiev-Trouxe Large consolation, with some exciting results from Europe League, an end of the first eight in the inaugural section of the 32 team league … and the promise of even more glory to reach incredible scenes of last night in Istanbul.
Here, Mail Choose five of the best moments of Ibrox Club on the road in the European competition since that covid interruption …
February 17, 2022 – Borussia Dortmund 2 Rangers 4
Giovanni Van Bronckhurst’s team had no chance of going to signal Iduna Park to face one side of Dortmund -inspired Dortmund Bellingham, even with Star striker Erling Haaland wounded.
Moreos is received with pleasure by Goldson after marking a memorable night in Dortmund
But when the goals at the end of the first half of a penalty by James Tavernier and Alfredo Morleos were followed by John Lundstram’s attack shortly after the break, Ibrox’s team was suddenly 3-0 ahead against their illustrious hosts.
Bellingham pulled one back before a goal to restore Rangers’ three goals until Dortmund reached 4-2 late.
August 24, 2022 – PSV Eindhoven 0 Rangers 1
Rangers advanced to the Champions League, correctly for the first time in over a decade after Antonio Colak’s goal saw PSV on Philips Stadion.
Colak will always be remembered by the goal that sealed a reward from the Champions League of 25 million pounds
Former Dutch teammates Giovanni Van Bronckhorst and Ruud Van Nestelrooy had fought for a 2-2 draw on Ibrox in the first leg, but Colak’s attack was enough to ensure that the Rangers dropped £ 25 million.
December 14, 2023 – Real Betis 2 Rangers 3
Philippe Clement’s team produced another sparkling road performance to claim first place in a tight section, which also included Aris Limassol and Sparta Prague.
Kemar Roofe groups the goal of victory, while Rangers shocked La Liga Side Betis in Spain
Abdallah Sima and Cyriel Desers scored goals in the first half, but the game was ready for 2-2 when substitute Kemar Roife scored the decisive winner with 12 minutes.
November 28, 2024 – Nice 1 Rangers 4
The pressure was already increasing in Clemente with his team and won only seven points of the previous 15 available on the Premiership, but Europe again proved to be a different ball game, while its team tore in pieces.
Igamane marks his second and the Rangers fourth on a surreal night in southern France
Vaclav Cerny opened the scoring after 35 minutes and the French side turned 3-0 at the break after Mohamed Diomande and Hamza Igamane also found the net.
The Moroccan striker added a second shortly after the break and another unlikely triumph was guaranteed.
March 6, 2025 – Fenerbahce 1 Rangers 3
José Mourinho’s team was enjoying an unbeaten race of 18 matches and would have appreciated the visit on one side of the Rangers collapsing in the domestic front.
Cerny runs to start the celebrations after scoring Rangers’s third goal in Istanbul
But the dexes played like a possessed man and Vaclav Cerny proved his unquestionable class, as Barry Ferguson had a winning return to European football in his first involvement since the final defeat of Uefa Cup for Zenit St. Petersburg.
