James Tavernier ready for old Rangers pal Malik Tillman and PSV but warns they must sharpen up to put Ibrox marker down

James Tavernier knows there have been plenty of changes at Rangers and PSV Eindhoven since the sides met in the Champions League last season yet it’s a familiar face who sums up how they will be very different.

Malik Tillman has swapped the light blue of the Ibrox side for the red and white of the Dutch giants and last season’s Rangers loanee is now on a collision course with his old team-mates after they came through their respective qualifiers to set up a play-off round showdown.

Both managers have changed - former Dutch team-mates Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Ruud van Nistelrooy went head to head 12 months ago - with Michael Beale and Peter Bosz in the dug-outs. And Rangers have had a summer of change with Tillman one of the players who left and he has joined PSV Eindhoven from Bayern Munich. PSV hammered Sturm Graz 7-2 in aggregate with Tavernier’s goal in Geneva earning Rangers a 1-1 draw to take them through.

And the Gers skipper said of the rematch: “You've got to wipe the slate completely clean. It’s a different team, we’re a different team but I’m sure we’ll see a familiar face in Malik when he comes over but we’ll fully concentrate on ourselves and it’s a massive game at Ibrox in the first leg and we have to put a real marker down and put is in good stead for the return.

“The most important thing is we’re through to the next round. We were disappointed not to get the clean sheet but happy to get to the next round. We came in at half time quite disappointed. We built up really well and got through to their final third but weren’t clinical or patient enough.

“We were much better second half and the boys who came on contributed. We had to get closer to them. We felt they were building up too quick and getting