Giovanni van Bronckhorst probably could have done without playing for most of the second half on Saturday against Hibs with a couple of bodies sitting in the dressing room licking their wounds, I’d have loved to have been a fly on the fall when Alfredo Morelos walked in to join John Lundstram at Easter Road.
For all that Hibs huffed and puffed, they rarely opened us apart, even when we were down to nine men, however, PSV Eindhoven will be an entirely different proposition as we saw in the first leg and we will have to go up another level from our Ibrox display.
Set pieces were an obvious issue and you would like to think that the necessary tweaks have been made either to set up or to the individuals in their respective roles, again though, we looked pretty solid in open play against what has been a free-scoring side.
We will have to score, that much is clear, but how Gio sets his team up will be fascinating. Does he go full Borussia Dortmund away and set up to attack and play on the front foot or, does he play the percentages and look to hit them on the counterattack?
Much has been made of our poor away form in Europe recently but it’s not as black and white as that, over two legs is what is important and on each occasion that we have played away from home first, we have given ourselves a chance at home – this time it’s different, we know exactly what we need to do from the first whistle.
Qualifying for the Champions League was never going to be easy, we could have been drawn against an “easier” team but we are well and truly in this tie – two evenly matched teams, 90 minutes, winner goes through, buckle up!