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Football: Legia Warsaw to play Rangers in second-leg Europa League qualifier

29.08.2019 07:30
Polish football side Legia Warsaw were set to play Scottish Premiership club Rangers away from home in the return leg of their Europa League qualifier on Thursday evening.
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The match at Rangers’ Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow was due to kick off at 8:45 p.m., with a place in the Europa League group stage at stake.

At a pre-match press conference on Wednesday, Legia manager Aleksandar Vuković, a former Serbian footballer, said: "We demand the maximum from ourselves. We want to be able to say after the game that we gave everything we could."

Steven Gerrard, the former Liverpool and England captain who manages the Scottish side, said Rangers’ Ibrox Stadium was "not the nicest place to come for opposition players and teams."

He added: "We expect the fans to be right up for this one and we expect the place to be rocking and we want to give them a performance that suits that atmosphere."

Legia and Rangers drew 0-0 in the first leg of their Europa League playoff in Warsaw last Thursday.

Gerrard said last week: “I think it’s going to be a very difficult game over the two legs...”

Legia in May finished runner-up in Poland’s top-flight Ekstraklasa football league.

Last summer the Warsaw club saw its hopes of qualifying for the Europa League group stage crushed by F91 Dudelange, a semi-professional side from Luxembourg.

(gs/pk)

Source: TVP