GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) – Kemar Roofe struck in extra-time as Rangers reached the Europa League semi-finals by beating nine-man Braga 3-1 (3-2 on mixture) on Thursday to arrange a gathering with RB Leipzig.
Rangers, trailing 1-0 from the primary leg, received off to a flying begin when full again James Tavernier put them forward within the second minute, sliding in on the again publish to join with a ball from Joe Aribo.
Roofe had an effort disallowed for the Scottish facet however a minute earlier than the break, Braga’s Vitor Tormena was dominated to have introduced down Kemar Roofe contained in the field and French referee Francois Letexier despatched off the defender and awarded a penalty.
Tavernier saved his cool and transformed the spot-kick to make it 2-0 on the evening and 2-1 on mixture on the break.
Roofe had one other effort dominated out, however Rangers paid the worth for the dearth of sharpness in entrance of objective seven minutes from the top of regulation time, when David Carmo rose to head in a nook.
In the eleventh minute of the additional interval, nevertheless, Roofe sealed the competition, slotting house a low cross from the superb Aribo.
Braga had Iuri Medeiros despatched off after he was booked for a late problem on Leon Balogun and once more for dissent.
(Reporting by Simon Evans, Editing by Ed Osmond)
