Host of the ease of victory in the third qualification round of the Champions League
The Rangers ran comfortable winners in the first leg of their third qualification round in the Champions League with a 3-0 victory against Czech Viktoria Plzen.
The new signature Djeidi Gassama also attached to the faithful of Ibrox with its third and fourth goals in three consecutive European games.
The 21 -year -old marked each side of the penalty of striker Cyriel Dessers while the Russell Martin team gave himself a foot in the playoffs before a trip to the Doosan arena next week.
Martin, who took over to the Scottish Giants in June, exploded his players after the 1-1 draw to Motherwell on Saturday and made major selection calls before this confrontation, dropping Captain James Tavernier and Nico Raskin on the bench.
But the decision seemed to bear fruit as a largely controlled Rangers of the procedures and emerged from the winners deserved at night.
New signatures impress in Ibrox
Gassama, who joined the Scottish team of Sheffield on Wednesday in summer, gave Martin men the perfect start when he gratified the careful layoff of the descriptions after a quarter of an hour.
The winger took a touch before finishing coldly in front of Florian Wiegele to give the head to his new employers.
Another of the new faces of the Rangers, Oliver Antman, was then denied a first goal because his low journey was blocked on the line by Vaclav Jemelka.
The young Finnish player may not have obtained the match sheet, but he played a huge role in the second goal of the Rangers, the 23-year-old in the Plzen box before being brought back by Matej Vydra.
DESSERS sent confidence the resulting spot kick to double the advantage of hosts while Martin’s team entered the break in a dominant position.
It was almost the same after restarting, with rangers under total control of the tie.
An effort Mohamed Diomande rocked the transverse bar before Gassama nodd in Antman’s peak cross for his second of the evening.
From there, Plzen offered very little postponement. The Rangers saw the game and took a good lead in the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
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