7 things to know about PSV as Rangers Champions League foes boast familiar faces and frightening scoring record
Rangers showed their Euro pedigree once again on Tuesday night when they roared back against Union SG to set up a Champions League playoff. But it gets no easier from here as Eredivisie giants PSV stand between Gio van Bronckhorst 's team and a long-awaited return to the group stage.
It will be a meeting of two Dutch football legends as Van Bronckhorst takes on Ruud van Nistelrooy's charges, who fought off Monaco in a hammer-and-tong tie to get this far. They showed both their fearsome attacking presence and a few defensive deficiencies in that one and there will be plenty for Gio and his scouts to sink their teeth into from their 4-3 aggregate win.
As one of the best known teams in European football, PSV hardly need any introduction. But Record Sport have dug deep for seven big talking points from the Eindhoven camp ahead of next week's clash at Ibrox.
It took them two legs, four goals, and 120 minutes to fight off Monaco. But after a dramatic night at a roaring Phillips Stadium in Eindhoven, it is PSV who eventually earned the right to take on Rangers in one final face-off before the group stage commences.
As Eredivisie runners-up from last season, they went straight into the same round as Rangers, so just like the Ibrox side, their third-round qualifier was their first European tie of the season. They initially led in Monaco before being pegged back, to set up one of the best one-off games you're likely to see this season.
They led through former Rangers target Joey Veerman on 21 minutes, but a Monaco fight-back had them facing elimination as the 90th minute approached. But Erick Gutierrez levelled to take it to extra-time, and familiar hero Luuk de Jong struck with 109 minutes on the clock to finally decide


