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Andy Newport & Robert Fairnie

Rangers boss Steven Gerrard says Galatasaray will be hot favourites when they arrive at Ibrox

Steven Gerrard says Galatasaray will be hot favourites when they arrive at Ibrox next week.

Rangers set up a mouth-watering Europa League play-off clash with the Turkish giants after thumping Dutch side Willem II 4-0 in the Netherlands.

Gerrard's side have performed so well in Europe ever since he arrived at the club, however he reckons his team go into next week's match as underdogs to make it through to the group stage.

Galatasaray have Gerrard's former Liverpool teammate Ryan Babel and Colombian striker Radamel Falcao among their ranks.

And the Rangers boss said: "Listen, we will certainly take confidence from tonight and tap into our results from the last couple of years.

"But, let's have it right, Galatasaray are a big club, a massive team and they are certainly coming to Ibrox as favourites, for sure.

"It is very frustrating, obviously, not to have our full house and that atmosphere behind us that would give us some kind of advantage.

"But I think it is going to be a really tough game without that there.

"The players deserve the opportunity and we will give it everything that we have got."

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