Rangers let lead slip twice in draw with PSV Eindhoven
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Rangers twice let a lead slip away in a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven within the first leg of a Champions League qualifying playoff on Tuesday.
PSV captain Luuk de Jong’s header within the eightieth minute — although he appeared to know little in regards to the decisive contact he made — was a second leveler for the 1988 European Cup winner which hosts the return recreation subsequent week.
In different playoff first legs, Royal Antwerp held on with 10 males from the fiftieth minute for a 1-0 win over visiting AEK Athens, and Copenhagen gained 1-0 in Poland towards competitors debutant Raków Częstochowa.
Second-leg video games are on Aug. 30 and winners advance to the profitable 32-team group stage which is drawn the following day in Monaco.
Rangers and PSV performed to a different 2-2 attract Glasgow as they did on the identical stage in Champions League qualifying precisely one yr in the past. Then, Rangers went on to win 1-0 in Eindhoven.
The Scottish membership first led within the forty fifth when Senegal ahead Abdallah Sima despatched a rising shot previous goalkeeper Walter Benítez. It resulted from PSV midfielder Ibrahim Sangaré shedding the ball contained in the penalty space.
Sangaré made amends by equalizing within the 61st. The Ivory Coast worldwide, who has been a reported switch goal for Bayern Munich and Liverpool, positioned his right-footed shot when in house close to the penalty spot after teammate Ismael Saibari cleverly faked to shoot.
Rangers led once more within the 76th when substitute Rabbi Matondo completed a quick break with a sweeping first-time shot. The benefit lasted lower than 4 minutes earlier than veteran Netherlands ahead De Jong struck.
Another Dutch ahead, Vincent Janssen, gave Antwerp victory in its first recreation within the competitors because the European Cup in 1957.
Janssen, the previous Tottenham ahead, scored with a low left-footed shot within the sixteenth. Antwerp had defender Jelle Bataille despatched off within the fiftieth for a nasty foul.
AEK will host the second leg subsequent week at its stadium close to the place one in every of its followers was killed in violent clashes with visiting Dinamo Zagreb followers two weeks in the past.
Copenhagen protected a ninth-minute lead gifted when Raków’s Romanian defender Bogdan Racovițan deflected a cross into his personal web.
Three extra playoff first legs are on Wednesday: Maccabi Haifa vs. Young Boys, Molde vs. Galatasaray, and Braga vs. Panathinaikos.
