Ally McCoist reckons it is a "huge ask" for Rangers to take something from their Champions League showdown with Liverpool.
The Ibrox aspect are heading for Anfield on Tuesday evening for an enormous group stage encounter with final season's finalists. Jurgen Klopp's superstars have been largely off-colour to date this season however stay heavy favourites with Rangers nearly fully written off by the bookies.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst has earlier for springing huge upsets in Europa as McCoist pointed to final season's beautiful 4-2 Europa League win away at Borussia Dortmund. The Ibrox legend is aware of it will take one thing just like get any kind of outcome on Merseyside and hinted he feels questions round Liverpool 's defensive worries could also be barely overstated within the context of this fixture. They nonetheless have the likes of Mo Salah, Luis Diaz and Roberto Firmino for Van Bronckhorst's aspect to attempt to get a deal with on, and McCoist admits it is a monumental problem for his outdated membership.
He instructed talkSPORT: “It’s a giant ask. It’s a very huge ask. It is going to want a degree of performances that we did see final yr towards Borussia Dortmund so they're able to it.
“However it's one among these conditions the place you simply suppose, Liverpool at residence, notably on the massive European nights. We're questioning them defensively, nonetheless, they’ve nonetheless obtained some gamers, I feel it’s a giant ask.”