COMING from behind twice to snatch an unlikely 2-2 draw against Villarreal; it is as if Rangers have never been away. Well, not exactly - that famous night when Alex McLeish’s side drew with a Juan Roman Riquelme and Diego Forlan-inspired outfit at Ibrox en route to an away goals elimination was in the last 16 of the Champions League back in 2006, rather than an opener in the continent’s secondary competition, the Europa League. But there was still plenty to admire about how Steven Gerrard’s side acquitted themselves in the club’s first match in the group stages or beyond of either European competition since a draw with PSV in 2011. Here Herald Sport does its best to make sense of a harum scarum night in the Estadio de la Ceramica.

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