Rangers and PSV will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Champions League Play-offs battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Rangers form and stats
Action has already taken place for Rangers in Champions League as they have defeated Union Saint-Gilloise to reach the Play-offs. Rangers was eliminated in the 3rd qualifying round last season in the Champions League. Malmö FF was too strong.Rangers's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-0 versus St. Johnstone. The home side are looking to build on that result. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Rangers played a great game against St. Johnstone and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. Čolak has scored in three games in a row. Outstanding! Matondo, who usually features in attack, was the best performer for the team in that fixture, scoring a rating of 8.42 (out of 10). Matondo hit the woodwork once, signed up for two assists, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 6 of 10 times and had 21 successful passes (of 26 total).
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Rangers have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 4 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 0 and lost 1.
Rangers are traveling soon after this match as the Premiership match at Hibernian awaits in four days.
PSV form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Monaco in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. PSV was sent out of Champions League in the play-offs last season, when Benfica turned out to be too strong.The visitors are W1-D0-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Eredivisie.
PSV play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-2 victory visiting Go Ahead Eagles. As you can tell from the result, the match against Go Ahead Eagles was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? Midfield player Simons was the top player of the team with a match rating of 9.01/10. Simons scored two goals, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 35 successful passes (of 43 total).
It's early days yet, but PSV has scored 5 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - one - one (Rangers wins - draws - PSV wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Arfield 2 goals |  A. Čolak 2 goals |   C. Gakpo 2 goals |
Rangers missing players
PSV missing players
| Rangers | PSV | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | ||
| 49 | 28 | Scored | S | 25 | 69 | ||
| 23 | 8 | Conceded | C | 17 | 36 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 84% | ||
| 32% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 4% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 44% | ||
| 60% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 68% | ||
| 24% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 8% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.1 | 17.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.7 | 14.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 44% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 42% | ||
| 8.1 | 6.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.6 | 12.2 | ||
| 2.6 | 1.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PSV | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Excelsior | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | AZ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Ajax | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | FC Twente | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | RKC Waalwijk | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | FC Utrecht | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | SC Heerenveen | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | FC Volendam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Sparta Rotterdam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | SC Cambuur | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 |
| 14 | FC Emmen | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 15 | Fortuna Sittard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | NEC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Vitesse | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 18 | Go Ahead Eagles | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -5 | 0 |
