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Peter Green - July 23, 2019
Rangers vs Progres Niederkorn
Europa League Qualification
Date: Thursday, 25 July 2019
Kick-off at 19:45 UK / 20:45 CET
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (Glasgow).
Steven Gerrard’s side posted a massive aggregate 10-0 scoreline against St Joseph’s in the previous round and will be hopeful of winning by similar margins when they take on Progres Niederkorn this week.
More than half of those goals came in their last clash on home soil alone, with the final scores reading 6-0 at the last blast of the whistle. The squad broke the deadlock early on in that game through Aribo and finished with a hat trick from Morelos and a brace by Defoe.
They were all over the attacking third and made twenty attempts at goal, eight of which were right on target, while restricting their foes from taking not more than two feeble shots.
Their counterparts from Luxembourg made it through to the quarterfinals on aggregate, despite losing the second leg of their tie by a 2-1 scoreline against Cork City. The squad did just enough in the first leg and rode on the two crucial away goals that they had scored.
With the kind of form that the hosts are currently in, a win in Glasgow is far from uncertain for the away side.
The visitors are the outright underdogs when they take on the hosts on Thursday at the Ibrox Stadium.
The home team have been stellar in all of their recent games, and have kept a clean sheet in four of their last five matchups.
Their foes, on the other hand, have been struggling to find a consistent winning run of form and have just two wins in all of their last five trips on the road.
Gerrard’s men have not been shy in netting as many goals as possible, and are unlikely to stop at just the one or two when they take on the away side.
So expect a high scoring clash between the two teams, with the hosts likely to pick up both the win and a clean sheet at the end of the ninety minutes.
