Allan McGregor fumbles as he tries to save at the feet of Alexsandr Katai and the Red Star striker stays on his feet to slot into an empty net.

The offside flag is up. VAR has a look and agrees.

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The ref has given it!

The referee is coming over to check out the monitor. The home fans are getting very excited.

Alexsandr Katai looks a real handful already as he dinks in a cross that causes some concern for the Rangers defence before the hosts spring forward, Ryan Kent leading the counter-attack.

The Rangers winger is clipped but it looks like he'd lost control of the ball.

Another VAR decision coming up...

Glen Kamara is Rangers' most advanced player as he chases after a ball dropping from a great height. The first defender doesn't deal with it very well but a second arrives to clear up and draw a foul from Kamara.

The whistle had gone for an offside as Aleksandr Katai whistles a cracking shot into the top corner.

The VAR team has a look and confirm the decision.

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Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

A peep of the whistle from Dutch referee Serdar Gozubuyuk and away we go.

The players are out - Rangers in all blue, Red Star in their red and white stripes, white socks and shorts.

The home fans are making an almighty racket.

Rangers manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst tells BT Sport: "[The Dortmund win] gave us confidence, but we've forgotten about that tie, we need to start all over again.

"We're very dynamic in our formation. It's always good to look at the opposition and if we need an alteration we will do that.

"[Red Star] were first in their group. Defensively they are very strong and they have technically gifted players. It's an opponent that can be dangerous."

Ohi Omoijuanfo joins Aleksandr Katai up front tonight and the big Norwegian has made an instant impact at Red Star with four goals in five games since his January move from Molde.

Red Star are on a run of six successive league wins, scoring 18 goals and conceding just three.

Aleksandr Katai netted a hat-trick in Sunday's 5-0 thumping of Novi Pazar, taking his tally for the season so far to 23.

He's another one a booking away from a suspension in this tournament.

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Neither side has anyone missing through suspension this evening, but Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos will need to be careful since he is a booking away from missing the return leg.

The same applies to midfielder John Lundstram and substitute Fashion Sakala.

Morelos led the line fantastically well in both legs against Dortmund and the Colombian really comes alive in this competition. He's knocked in 31 Europa League goals in total, with only Henrik Larsson (40) and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (34) scoring more.

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In a game of 'show us your medals', rival managers Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Dejan Stankovic are right up there.

Both captained their nations and both amassed over 100 caps.

Stankovic has six Serie A titles to his name, the same number in the Coppa Italia, and lifted the Champions League trophy with Inter Milan after picking up the Cup Winners' Cup and Uefa Super Cup with Lazio.

As a young man at Red Star he won a league title and was part of three cup celebrations.

Van Bronckhorst also has a Champions League winners' medal in the collection with Barcelona, along with league titles in Spain, England (with Arsenal) and five domestic honours from his time as a player at Ibrox from 1998-2001.

Rangers are the the 47-year-old Dutchman's third club as manager, while Stankovic, 43, remains in his first post, having taken over in 2019.

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Rangers' recent league form has been a bit underwhelming, with draws against Dundee United and Motherwell followed by 1-0 wins over St Johnstone and Aberdeen, but it's been enough to hang on to the coattails of Premiership leaders Celtic.

It was a completely different story over two legs against Borussia Dortmund though, with Rangers full of attacking vigour against the Germans.

The atmosphere in the 2-2 draw at home a fortnight ago was absolutely crackling, with manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst saying yesterday that it is "time to turn up the volume" again.

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There has been one other tie between these two, which went to a third leg in neutral London way back in the 1964/65 European Cup first round.

Rangers won 3-1 at Ibrox and repeated the trick at the Arsenal Stadium after a 4-2 defeat in Belgrade.

The most recent meeting of the clubs came in the 2007-08 Champions League third qualifying round.

Nacho Novo's 90th-minute strike in the first leg at Ibrox was the only goal in the tie.

Rangers would finish third behind Barcelona and Lyon in Group E before embarking on a memorable Uefa Cup run, beating Panathinaikos, Werder Bremen, Sporting Lisbon and Fiorentina before coming unstuck against Zenit St Petersburg in the final.

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