Rangers boss Philippe Clement has named his starting eleven to face Benfica tonight as both Cyriel Dessers and Fabio Silva start.
The Light Blues suffered a rare setback in the Scottish Premiership last weekend - with Motherwell triumphing 2-1 winners at Ibrox. Rangers blushes were spared by title rivals Celtic also dropping points on Sunday and now the focus turns to a crunch Europa League last 16 first leg tie against Portuguese opposition.
And manager Clement has made two changes for the first leg over in Lisbon. Tom Lawrence and Fabio Silva come into the side as Nico Raskin and Ross McCausland, who was a potential injury doubt, drop to the bench.
Benfica themselves were humiliated 5-0 by Porto to knock them off top spot in Primeira Liga and have made a staggering five alterations this evening.
RANGERS XI: Butland, Tavernier, Yilmaz, Lundstram, Souttar, Goldson, Silva, Dessers, Lawrence, Sterling, Diomande
SUBS: McCrorie, K.Wright, Jack, Roofe, Davies, Barisic, King, Raskin, McCausland, Yfeko, Fraser, McKinnon.
BENFICA XI: Trubin, A.Silva, Bah, Neres, Aursnes, Cabral, Di Maria, Otamendi, Florentino, J.Neves
SUBS: Soares, Gomes, Carreras, Morato, Kokcu, Tengstedt, Joao Mario, Rollheiser, Leonardo, Araujo, Gouveia, Spencer
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