Giovanni van Bronckhorst, the manager of Rangers, expects that his team will take lessons from the current Champions League campaign. After four games in a group with Ajax, Napoli, and Liverpool, the Gers are still without a goal at the bottom.
Van Bronckhorst still has a chance to qualify for the knockouts in Europe with two games left (Ajax at home and Napoli away). The Scots still have a chance to get to the Europa League because they are three points ahead of Ajax, who are ranked third.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst intends to continue the fight in Europe
Rangers shocked everyone by making it to the Europa League final last year. But they fell short in the Champions League this time around. PSV paid a price to advance to the group stage. “We performed admirably in Europe the previous year. But this season we are playing at a far higher level,” Van Bronckhorst told Scottish media. This is also the level of football we want to continue to participate in.
“The Conference League or Europa League are the simplest for us to compete in since there are fewer opponents there, but as a player or manager, you always want to play against the greatest clubs. We need to rotate our players more because we have just lost a number of guys to injuries,” he added.
Van Bronckhorst, who will lead Rangers against Dundee FC in the League Cup on Wednesday night, says that we must strike a balance between the workload on the players and the workload on the team. The Scottish Premiership rival of Ajax is two points off of league leader Celtic.
In addition to the fast and furious domestic schedule. They have arguably a tougher, yet lesser significant set of matches in the Champions League to complete their campaign. They will travel to Naples towards the end of this month. Before wrapping up their UCL campaign hosting Ajax next month.
