Easy passage from Malmö to Rangers! The Scottish team prevailed by a score 2-0 for her first matchday League Phase of Europa League. Both, we remind you, are rivals of Olympiakos in the competition.
Rangers found a goal from the locker room after o Bairami it took just 56 seconds for him to score and send the ball into the empty net off a teammate’s crossbar. In fact, the Albanian midfielder scored the fastest goal in Euro history last summer, as he opened the scoring within 23 seconds for his country in a match against Italy!
The guests were in control of the match and constantly threatened the opponents, with the Malme on the other hand to play mainly in counter attacks. The Scottish team entered the second half with the same pace and constantly put pressure on the hosts, who usually threatened from set pieces.
THE McCausland in the 76th minute he wrote the 2-0 for the Rangerswith Malme from then on not being able to do much and so the score remained until the final whistle of the game.
Detailed schedule of the 1st matchday:
Wednesday 25/09
Alkmaar-Elfsborg 3-2
(44′, 50′ Van Bommel, 74′ pen. Parrott – 23′ Umma, 53′ Hedlund)
Bodo/Glimt-Porto 3-2
(15′ Hogg, 40′, 62′ Hauge – 8′ Omorontion, 90′ Goul)
Anderlecht-Ferentzvaros 2-1
(60′ Verseren, 66′ pen. Dolberg – 86′ Traore)
Galatasaray-PAOK 3-1
(48′ auto. Bamba, 76′ Akgun – 67′ Konstantelias)
Dynamo Kyiv-Lazio 0-3
(5′, 35′ Dia, 34′ Dele-Basirou)
Ludogorets-Slavia Prague 0-2
(37′ Jurasek, 65′ Chitil)
Manchester United-Twente 1-1
(35′ Eriksen – 68′ Lammers)
Midland-Hoffenheim 1-1
(42′ Osorio – 89′ Mersted)
Nice-Sociedad 1-1
(45′ Rosario – 18′ Barenetsea)
Thursday 26/09
Malmo-Rangers 0-2
(1′ Bayrami, 76′ McCausland)
Fenerbahce-Saint-Zilois 2-1
(26′ Sojontsu, 82′ Burgess own goal – 90’+3′ Sykes)
Ajax-Besiktas (22:00)
Eintracht Frankfurt-Victoria Plzeň (22:00)
Lyon-Olympiakos (22:00)
Braga-Maccabi Tel Aviv (22:00)
Roma-Bilbao (22:00)
Steaua Bucharest-Riga (22:00)
Tottenham-Qarabag (22:00)
Source: Sport Fm
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