Rabbi Matondo arrived at Ibrox armed with a list of questions for his new Rangers team-mates on their astonishing Europa League adventure.But now the Welsh winger admits it’s time he started providing answers of his own as he looks to inspire Gers on a new continental crusade.
Matondo joined Gers last summer just 55 days after their brush with Ibrox immortality in Seville. And the £3million recruit from Schalke was desperate to hear all about it, wasting no time as he set about quizzing his new colleagues on the remarkable run that took them from delight in Dortmund to within a couple of kicks of glory at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.It was the smallest of margins that denied Gio van Bronckhorst’s team their place in history that night in Andalusia but since then, you could drive a bus through the gap separating Gers from success and failure in Europe.
Having been humiliated in last year’s Champions League group stages and pummelled again by PSV in this season’s qualifiers, Gers now return to the Europa League facing fresh questions over whether they can still cut it in UEFA's second tier tournament.
9 things we spotted at Rangers training as 3 vie to replace Danilo and Cifuentes takes the bull by the horns Matondo himself has doubts to settle having failed to make any kind of mark during his first 12 months in Glasgow.
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