Scotland could slip a place in UEFA 's coefficient ranking on Thursday night with Belgium poised to move up the table. It's been a chastening campaign on the continent for Premiership sides with Celtic, Rangers and Hearts all likely to bow out out of the Champions League and Europa Conference League, respectively.
Celtic and Rangers have found life tough at the top in UEFA's flagship competition. Ange Postecoglou's side, although competitive across their five matches so far, have already bowed out of Europe for the season, while their Ibrox rivals require a minor miracle to salvage a place in the Europa League.
More likely than the five-goal win required over Ajax next week is the proposition they could finish the campaign as the worst-ever group stage team.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst's team have lost all five of their matches and sit on -19 goal difference with one left to play. Hearts, meanwhile, must win their last two games to stand any chance of remaining in the Conference League beyond Christmas, with Fiorentina very much in the driving seat to progress alongside Istanbul Basaksehir.
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