Rangers will have history on their side when they travel to Eindhoven for Wednesday’s Champions League play-off against PSV.
The last time these two sides met in Europe, back in October 1999, Lorenzo Amoruso, Neil McCann and Michael Mols all found the net as Rangers stormed to a thumping group-stage win at a rocking Ibrox.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst got the better of Ruud van Nistelrooy on the pitch that night. Can he repeat the trick, albeit from his watching brief in the dugout, 23 years later?
Who played for Rangers in that 4-1 PSV Eindhoven thrashing?
Stefan Klos
A veteran of over 200 games and nearly ten years at Ibrox, long-serving shot-stopper Klos picked up no fewer than 15 trophies during spells with Rangers and Borussia Dortmund. Few players can legitimately claim to be a legend at two of Europe’s most historic footballing institutions. But Klos is certainly part of that elite club.
Beaten by a Ruud van Nistelrooy penalty that night at Ibrox.
Sergio Porrini
It’s a testament to the pulling power Rangers enjoyed in the 1990s that they could lure a two-time Italy international away from Juventus and to the blue side of Glasgow. Porrini is an assistant coach with the Albanian national team these days.
Lorenzo Amoruso
It was his bullet header that set Rangers on their way in 1999; A captain’s goal if there ever was one. Amoruso spent a brief spell as a scout at Fiorentina after hanging up his boots.
Craig Moore
The Australian will have been breathing an almighty sigh of relief after Mols scored his second of the night nearly a quarter of a century ago; the penalty he gave away with a reckless lunge inside the box counting for nothing in the end.
Moore had two spells at Ibrox, either side of a stint with Crystal Palace, winning five Premiership titles.
Tony Vidmar
One of two Aussies in Dick Advocaat’s XI, Vidmar is coach of the Socceroos’ U23 side these days. A true example on and off the pitch, he is probably best remembered for a crucial penalty kick that earned the Australia a place in the 2006 World Cup.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst
It was Van Bronckhorst who dragged Rangers to victory over 20 years ago. GvB set up Amorosu’s opener with a wicked corner kick, and it was his thumping long-range strike that led to McCann’s second-half tap-in.
Now, his influence is limited to the touchline. Fortunately, he’s proved at Ibrox that he is capable of outwitting even some of Europe’s finest managers on the big stage.
Derek McInnes
If things had worked out differently, McInnes would potentially have returned to Ibrox as head coach around five years ago; such was his standing in the Scottish game at the time.
His reputation has suffered post-Aberdeen, however, and McInnes now finds himself bottom of the Premeirship table with Kilmarnock.
Barry Ferguson
The driving force in this Rangers midfield, academy graduate Ferguson lived his dream in that iconic blue shirt. Still an outspoken supporter of the Gers 23 years on.
Ferguson was last seen in the Alloa Athletic dugout before departing in February.
Neil McCann
Scorer of Rangers’ third goal against PSV, McCann joined the club from Hearts for a fee just shy of £2 million in 1999. The former Scotland international’s most iconic moment undoubtedly came in 3-0 obliteration over Celtic at the end of that season. He scored twice, thus securing the Premiership title.
Rod Wallace
As debut seasons go, there aren’t many that could rival Wallace’s at Rangers in 1998/99. 27 goals, a domestic treble, and the winner against Celtic in the Scottish League Cup final. The stuff of dreams.
Michael Mols
The six-cap Dutchman had never scored a European goal in Rangers colours before PSV came to town. He soon put that right; two goals on the night for the former Ajax youngster.
Mols remains a popular figure at Ibrox, despite an injury-hit time in Scotland. He is currently the youth coach at FC Utrecht.
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