{"id":339773,"date":"2025-08-13T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339773\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:17:10","slug":"rangers-discover-champions-league-play-off-round-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339773\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers discover Champions League play-off round opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Russell Martin&#8217;s side face the Belgian club in the final qualifying stage after their 4-2 aggregate win over Red Bull Salzburg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The two-legged tie stands between the Ibrox club and a share of the \u00a340 million prize for league phase qualification.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first leg is scheduled for next week on either August 19 or 20, with the return leg in Brugge on August 26 or 27.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Club Brugge entered their match with Salzburg with a 1-0 advantage after an away victory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, it was level on aggregate with Salzburg 2-1 up on the night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Late goals from Carlos Forbs and Hans Vanaken, in the 83rd and 94th minutes respectively, ensured Brugge&#8217;s place in the play-off round.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rangers<\/a> will now have to overcome the Belgian giants to secure their spot in the UCL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Martin&#8217;s side face the Belgian club in the final qualifying stage after their 4-2 aggregate win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}