Rangers and PSV resume battle

PSV Eindhoven will look to end a dismal record against Scottish sides as Rangers FC welcome the Dutch side in the UEFA Europa League round of 16.

• The first leg ended 0-0. There were few openings during the 90 minutes with PSV enjoying most of the possession, but unable to find a way past a stubborn Rangers rearguard.

Previous meetings
• PSV have yet to win in five matches against Rangers. John Greig's Light Blues eliminated Kees Rijvers' PSV in the 1978/79 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round with a 3-2 win in Eindhoven after a 0-0 draw at Ibrox. Then a Rangers side coached by former PSV boss Dick Advocaat beat an Erik Gerets-led PSV twice in the 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League first group stage.

• That 3-2 win – secured by a late Bobby Russell goal – handed PSV their first ever European home defeat after a 29-game unbeaten run.

• The teams for their first meeting – a 0-0 draw at Ibrox on 18 October 1978, were:
Rangers: McCloy, Jardine, Alex Forsyth, Tom Forsyth, Jackson (Miller 40), McDonald, McLean, Russell, Parlane (Cooper 69), Johnstone, Smith.
PSV: Van Engelen, Deijkers, Stevens, Brandts, Poortvliet, Lubse, Postuma, Willy van de Kerkhof (Hoyer 56), Van Kraay, Krijgh, Van der Kuijlen (Janssen 14).

• The teams for their most recent meeting at Ibrox, a 4-1 win for the hosts on 20 October 1999, were:
Rangers: Klos, Porrini, Moore, Amoruso, Ferguson, Van Bronckhorst, Mols (Johansson 81), Wallace (Kanchelskis 88), Vidmar, McCann (Albertz 71), McInnes.
PSV: Kralj, Faber, Heintze, Van Bommel, Khokhlov, Van Nistelrooy, Nilis (Bruggink 86), Vogel, Nikiforov, Stîngă (Rommedahl 74), Wielaert (Kolkka 32).

• Current PSV player Wilfred Bouma came on as a 68th-minute substitute in the sides' second meeting in Eindhoven.

Match background
• Rangers' record against PSV contrasts with their overall record against Dutch opponents, which reads W4 D4 L7 (W1 D3 L2 in Glasgow). These home results do not include a 3-2 win against Sparta Rotterdam in a 1959/60 European Champion Clubs' Cup quarter-final, staged on neutral territory at Highbury, London. PSV are thus the only Dutch side Rangers have beaten at home in six attempts.

• PSV have never won a game against a Scottish side, recording a draw and a defeat against Dundee United FC in addition to their three losses and two draws against Rangers. Their overall record against Scottish opponents reads W0 D3 L4 (W0 D2 L1 in Scotland).

• Rangers have not won in their last four games against Dutch opponents: two draws and two defeats.

• PSV are unbeaten in ten UEFA Europa League fixtures since opening their 2010/11 campaign with a 1-0 play-off round loss at FC Sibir Novosibirsk. They have not been beaten in 12 European home games (nine wins and three draws) since a 3-1 UEFA Champions League group stage loss to Liverpool FC on 9 December 2008.

• Rangers are without a win in seven European games (five draws and two defeats) since beating Bursaspor 1-0 at Ibrox in the UEFA Champions League in the autumn. They have now not won in 11 on the road (seven draws and four defeats, including the 2008 UEFA Cup final which they lost 2-0 to FC Zenit St Petersburg in Manchester) since they beat Sporting Clube de Portugal 2-0 in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals on 10 April 2008.

• Since losing their opening European away game of the season 1-0 at Sibir, PSV have recorded three wins and one draw on the road, scoring twice in each match.

• The 1-0 win against Bursaspor in the autumn is Rangers' only home success in their last ten UEFA club competition games; they drew five and lost four of the other nine.

Team facts
• Liverpool FC won the UEFA Cup three times (in 1973, 1976 and 2001) and are thus the most successful side left in this season's competition, though PSV (1978), Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1988), AFC Ajax (1992), FC Porto (2003), PFC CSKA Moskva (2005) and FC Zenit St Petersburg (2008) have also won it.

• Of the sides left in the last 16, FC Twente (1975), SL Benfica (1983) and Rangers (2008) have all been on the losing side in UEFA Cup finals.

• Rangers enjoyed a successful spell under Advocaat, who left PSV for Ibrox in 1998, bringing Eindhoven favourite Arthur Numan with him.

• Rangers' eliminated Sporting in the round of 32; every time Rangers have beaten Sporting (as they did in the 1971/72 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the 2007/08 UEFA Cup) they have gone on to reach a European final.

• Rangers are three goals shy of their 100th in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League; this will be their 74th game in the competition.

Penalties
• Rangers have won all three of their UEFA club competition penalty shoot-outs, beating Paris Saint-Germain FC (4-3 away), CS Marítimo (4-2 at home) and ACF Fiorentina (4-2 at home); current squad members Steven Whittaker and Sasa Papac were among the scorers in the latter shoot-out, in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup semi-finals.

• PSV have seen five UEFA club competition ties decided on spot kicks; they have won three of those games – including the 1988 European Cup final against Benfica in Stuttgart – and lost two. They have won their two most recent shoot-outs, against Olympique Lyonnais (4-2 at home, Wilfred Bouma among the scorers) and Tottenham Hotspur FC (6-5 at home, with Otman Bakkal among the scorers).