What the Rangers pundits said as Gio earns his glass of red, Tillman and Lawrence praised but mixed reviews for Sands

It’s never dull at Ibrox Stadium on a European night and Rangers yet again delivered under the floodlights in Govan with a remarkable 3-0 win over Union Saint-Gilloise to move one step closer to the Champions League group stage. Giovanni van Bronckhorst will go up against former Holland team-mate Ruud van Nistelrooy as he takes his Rangers side across the North Sea and back to his homeland for a shoot-out with PSV Eindhoven to join Europe’s elite.

As bad as the Light Blues were in the first leg in Belgium when they slumped to a 2-0 defeat, they were gutsy in the return with James Tavernier’s penalty, Antonio Colak’s header and a Malik Tillman goal earning them a win in front of a raucous Rangers crowd.

Van Bronckhorst’s former team-mates Craig Moore and Neil McCann were both on club TV duty while another of the Gers gaffer’s old dressing room pals Kenny Miller was working for BBC radio along with ex-Ger Richard Foster. Here’s what the quartet had to say with American James Sands fortunate the referee realised his error in brandishing a second yellow card thanks to his assistant's intervention or Gers could have been in trouble.

Rangers are going to go on and be so much better but it was a really professional job. They limited Union to not many chances although I’d like to have seen Rangers manage the game better towards the very end. We know how important goals are and the timing of the goals were crucial. The one just before half time, the penalty, was massive. And when the game got stuck a bit in the second half Colak getting another goal was brilliant because he worked every so hard and deserved his goal. And to get that winning goal to take Rangers through it was a professional performance. The new boys will