Rangers – Betis data and statistics from the European League | European League

The first confrontation in history between Rangers and Betis opens the third group of the Europa League.

The Scottish team returns to the competition for the first time since reaching the final in 2021/22, while Betis is participating in this stage for the third consecutive season.

Group C is completed with Sparta Prague and Aris Limassol.

Model status

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Balance against Spanish teams: V3 E8 D13 GF18 GC39
Balance at home against Spanish teams: V3 D5 D4

Since 2006, Rangers have drawn five of their last six home games against Spanish teams (one loss).

Most recently, the Glasgow club faced Villarreal in the group stage of the 2018/19 Europa League, drawing 2-2 thanks to goals from Scott Arfield and Kyle Lafferty, before drawing 0-0 at Ibrox and finishing third in their group.

Thus, Rangers extended their streak to seven matches (five draws and two defeats) without achieving a win at home against the Spanish visitors, since beating Osasuna 1-0 in the first leg of the first round of the UEFA Cup 1985/86, a draw in which the Scottish team lost 2-1. In the aggregate of the two matches.

Last season, in its return to the Champions League for the first time since 2010/11, Rangers suffered a difficult experience, as it finished last in Group A after losing all six of its matches, two of which were against Ajax (4-0 and 4-0). 1-3) and 1-7 against Liverpool, which was the largest defeat for the Glasgow club at home in the UEFA competition.

Rangers scored only two goals in the group stage of the Champions League last season, conceding 22 goals.

Their last season in the Europa League was in 2021/22, when they finished second in Group A, behind Lyon. Wins in the knockout stage against Borussia Dortmund (2-4 away, 2-2 at home), Red Star (3-0 at home, 2-1 away), Braga (1-0 away, 3-1 away) his land). Leipzig (1-0 away, 3-1 at home) led them to the final, where they lost 5-4 on penalties to Eintracht Frankfurt after a 1-1 draw in Seville.

Michael Bell’s team, runner-up in the Scottish League in the 2022/23 season after Celtic, failed to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League on this occasion, since PSV Eindhoven, which Rangers defeated in the qualifiers last season, turned in the round of 16. The standings are at the same stage this year with a 7-3 aggregate win (2-2 at home, 5-1 away).

Rangers have won just two of their last seven home games in Europe (two draws and three defeats), conceding 18 goals.

Betis

Balance against Scottish teams: W1 D0 D1 GF6 GC6
Away balance against Scottish teams: W0 D0 D1

Betis’ only two previous meetings against Scottish clubs came in the 2021/22 Europa League group stage against Celtic.

The Spanish team won in Seville 4-3 with two goals scored by Juanmi. But Betis fell at Celtic Park 3-2.

Betis has qualified for three consecutive European campaigns for the first time in their history, having reached the last 16 in each of the last two editions of the Europa League.

Manuel Pellegrini’s team finished first in its group last season, and was unbeaten in its six matches (five wins and one draw), including a memorable 2-1 away win over Roma, but was defeated by Manchester United in the round of 16 (4-4). 1 away, 0-1 home).

This defeat is the second in two seasons in the same stage for the Green and White, which lost by a goal to Eintracht in the last minute of extra time in the round of 16 2021/22 (1-2 at home, 1-1 away). Betis had finished second in its group behind Bayer Leverkusen, before defeating Zenit in the qualifiers (2-3 away, 0-0 at home).

Betis finished sixth in the league in the 2022/23 season, with 60 points from 38 matches, and automatically qualified for the group stage in the Europa League.

Betis has won four of their last six away matches in Europe, with one draw. The 4-1 defeat to Manchester United in their last match was the only setback in that series.

Curiosity

Manuel Pellegrini led Villarreal’s away win over Rangers in the round of 16 of the 2005/06 Champions League (2-2 away, 1-1 at home).

The Chilean was also coaching Betis when they lost 3-2 to Celtic in Glasgow in December 2021.

One of Betis’ founders, Manuel Asensio Ramos, spent time studying in Scotland and chose the green and white colors after watching Celtic.

Marc Barta was in Barcelona’s 2-1 loss to Celtic in the Champions League group stage in November 2012.

Isco’s Real Madrid lost 2-1 to Rangers at Ibrox in a pre-season friendly in July 2021.

Borja Iglesias was also beaten in Glasgow earlier this year. The Betis striker came on as a substitute in Spain’s 2-0 loss to Scotland in a Euro 2024 qualifier at Hampden Park on 28 March.

Felipe was on the losing side in Celtic’s 2-1 win away to Lazio in the Europa League group stage in November 2019 to qualify for the last 32.