Giovanni van Bronckhorst keeps believing after Rangers’ Champions League draw

Giovanni van Bronckhorst believes Rangers can still qualify for the Champions League, despite a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven in the first leg of their play-off tie at Ibrox.

The visitors took the lead in the 37th minute through defender Ibrahim Sangare but  Antonio Colak levelled three minutes later, the Croatia striker scoring for the fourth game in a row.

PSV goalkeeper Walter Benitez blundered in the 69th minute, allowing Tom Lawrence’s free-kick to cross the line, but PSV defender Armando Obispo headed in an equaliser with 12 minutes remaining to keep the tie in the balance ahead of next week’s return in Eindhoven.

The Dutchman told BT Sport:  “We got the free-kick from Tom to go 2-1 up but you know, all goals count. How you score doesn’t matter.

“In the end, we lost a goal from a set piece and that was disappointing. But the tie is still open and we have the chance to go through next week.

“Of course we can do it. It’s the second leg, they play at home and hopefully we can get more space and try to win. We have to do that to get our goal and we will give everything.”

Van Bronckhorst will be looking for his side to defend set pieces better after they conceded two goals from corners.

He said: “We were a bit unlucky with the first goal. We had the first contact but the ball stayed in the area.

“The second? We have to be stronger and get first contact on the corner.

“It was a very close game. The differences aren’t that big and we saw that in this game.

It was a very close game. The differences aren't that big and we saw that in this game- Giovanni van Bronckhorst

“PSV got the first goal and that’s always important but we fought back well.

“We scored a good goal to make it 1-1 and then you saw the game we wanted with