Champions League Rangers' 12-year 'suffering' is over

 

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A year ago, he played against Rangers in Malmö's jersey.  In the match of the third qualifying round, he scored two goals and became Rangers' number one enemy.  Antonio Colak has 'atone' for that 'sin' over the years.

 Scored this time for Rangers, the Scottish club reached the Champions League final after 12 years.  In the space of one year, the Croatian forward from Rangers' "destroyer" is now "savior"!

But the individual is not Kolak, the 'hero' in Scottish football is now Rangers.  The club last played in the Champions League in 2010.  Then in the last era things got so bad that Scottish football had to be relegated to the fourth division during a period of financial strain.  However, Rangers have been staying at the top level of football for four or five years.  Last year also played in the Europa League final.

The opponents in the play-offs were PSV Eindhoven from the Netherlands.  Last week's dramatic first leg ended in a 2-2 draw.  On the way back on Wednesday night, however, nothing happened.  Eindhoven scored only one goal.  Kolak scored the goal in the 60th minute of the game.  The goal that finally decided the match.  Rangers won 1-0.

 Rangers got a ticket to play in the Champions League with a 3-2 win over the two legs.  In this year's Champions League, in addition to Rangers, there are league champions Celtic from Scotland.  The two Scottish clubs will play together in the main stage of the Champions League for the first time since 2007.

No new teams:

 Every year one or more new teams appear in the Champions League.  As last year Moldova's sheriff was Tiraspol, in 2019 it was Italy's Atalanta.  Two years ago there were four new teams together.  But this time, Frankfurt is in the Champions League for the first time.  The German club has previously played in the European Cup, the previous edition of the tournament.  Considering the European Cup, there is not even a new team this time.

 All 32 teams that have made it to the main stage of the Champions League have played in Europe's top club competition at least once before.  Norwegian club Bodo/Glimt had a chance this time, but the team lost in the playoffs to Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb.  Among the teams that are participating this time, 14 clubs are former champions of the European Cup or Champions League.  There are seven other clubs who have played at least one final.

Who is in the group stage draw:

 The Champions League group stage draw will begin today at 10 PM Bangladesh time in Istanbul, Turkey.  32 teams will be divided into 8 groups.  Clubs are already divided into four pots based on several criteria.  Each group will be formed with one team from each pot.  Manchester City, Frankfurt AC Milan, PSG, Porto and Dutch club Ajax are in the number one pot along with the current champions Real Madrid.

 At number two are Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Sevilla and Tottenham.  Dortmund, Leverkusen, Salzburg, Napoli, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting CP, Inter Milan and Benfica are in the third place.  And in the fourth pot there are Celtic, Club Brugge, Dinamo Zagreb, Copenhagen, Marseille, Rangers, Maccabi Haifa and Viktoria Plzen.