RANGERS booked their place in the third round of the Europa League qualifiers follwoing their 2-0 aggregate win over Progres Niederkorn to tee up a meeting with Denmark's FC Midtjylland in the next stage.
The Danes will represent a more diffcult challenge to Steven Gerrard's side than either Progres or St Joseph's did as the qualification process starts to intensify. It's at this stage that Rangers become an unseeded team, making their path to the group stages all the more perilous.
The draw for the fourth and final round of qualifying takes place on Monday August 5 in Nyon and Rangers will learn who they'll face in the final qualifier, should they manage to overcome Midttjylland in their next double-header.
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Rangers can be drawn against the winner of one of the following ties:
Torino (ITA) v Shakhtyor Soligorsk (BLR)
Royal Antwerp (BEL) v Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
Feyenoord (NED) v Dinamo Tbilisi (GEO)
Brøndby (DEN) v Braga (POR)
Thun (SUI) v Spartak Moskva (RUS)
Steaua Bucharest (ROU) v Mladá Boleslav (CZE)
Pyunik (ARM) v Wolverhampton Wanderers (ENG)
AEK Larnaca (CYP) v Gent (BEL)
Legia Warszawa (POL) v Atromitos (GRE)
Haugesund (NOR) v PSV Eindhoven (NED)
Vaduz (LIE) v Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
Partizan (SRB) v Malatyaspor (TUR)
Malmö (SWE) v Zrinjski (BIH)
Luzern (SUI) v Espanyol (ESP)
Sparta Praha (CZE) v Trabzonspor (TUR)
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By the looks of it, there are no easy ties at this stage of the competition. Rangers will be keen to avoid heavy-hitters like Torino, Wolves and PSV Eindhoven. Similarly, last seaon's sem-finalists Eintracht Frankfurt or Slavia Praha - who reached the quarter-finals - would provide a very difficult challenge for Rangers to overcome, should they make it to the play-off.
A favourable draw would likely see Rangers pitted against Belgian side KAA Gent, who have failed to qualify for the group stages of the Europa League in each of the last two seasons, or perhaps Legia Warsaw. The Polish side have been knocked out of the preliminary rounds of the Europa League two years in a row, althought they did reach the group stages of the Champions League in 2016/17.
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