'Shoddy and shabby' Rangers do what they need to

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Rangers have ridden their luck in the Champions League qualifiers but have ultimately been good enough to reach the play-off round Thomas Duncan BBC Sport Scotland

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"It's better to be lucky than good."

An old adage which sums up Rangers' run in the qualifiers of the Champions League so far rather neatly.

The good news is they are now just two games - or one tie - away from the league phase, with Club Brugge of Belgium standing in their way.

Making it to the play-off round is arguably an over-achievement in itself, given the tricky draw away against Panathinaikos in the last round and a squad being rebuilt under a new head coach.

But boss Russell Martin is under no illusion about the scale of the impro

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