Danilo injured his knee in Rangers' league win over Heart of Midlothian this monthEuropa League: Real Betis v RangersVenue: Estadio Benito Villamarin, Seville Date: Thursday, 14 December Kick-off: 20:00 GMTCoverage: Listen on BBC Radio Scotland Extra, live text commentary on the BBC Sport website & app
Philippe Clement says his depleted Rangers side have "nothing to lose" in their Europa League decider at Real Betis.
Rangers are without Todd Cantwell because of "personal circumstances", Ryan Jack has failed a fitness test, and Danilo will miss several months with a knee injury.
Rangers must equal Sparta Prague's result against Aris Limassol to reach the knockout stages, otherwise they will drop into the Europa Conference League.
Betis are unbeaten at home in all competitions this season, and although Clement believes it will be Rangers' biggest test since he took charge, he says they are going to Spain looking to win.
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"How many home games did they lose this season?" he said. "It is not simple. Otherwise teams would have done it. Good teams like Real Madrid. We have a lot of respect for them but we come here with ambition.
"It's an interesting game. It's a game where Rangers have nothing to lose. We are in Europe next year. But we want to make the next step again in the group.
"I have given them some challenges over the last couple of weeks and almost every time the team passed it. But now this may be the biggest one until now.
"It's going to be a really big test, but I feel something special in the group."
With the Viaplay Cup final looming against Aberdeen on Sunday, this week is pivotal in shaping the Ibrox side's season.
"I'm very excited but I'm also calm and also focused," Clement added. "You need to see when you get too excited you lose all control. That cannot happen.
"The most important thing is the players keep on doing what they are doing. I see it every week. Every training [session]."
Team news
As well as missing Cantwell, Jack and Danilo, Rangers remain without injured duo Nicolas Raskin and Tom Lawrence.
Betis' French midfielder Nabil Fekir is on the sidelines for a lengthy period with a cruciate ligament injury.
The hosts will also be without Claudio Bravo, Marc Bartra, William Carvalho and Yossouf Sabably.
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On the face of it, one win in four outings while sitting seventh in La Liga, already 15 points adrift of surprise leaders Girona, is not particularly impressive form.
However, the latest of those games was a 1-1 home draw with Real Madrid, who currently sit second, a game manager Manuel Pellegrini thought they should have won.
If they had, it would have been a seventh successive home win.
Indeed, they are unbeaten on their own ground in 10 games this season, the last team to beat them there being Getafe in May.
What they said
Real Betis head coach Manuel Pellegrini: "It's important for us to take note if a team goes 13 games in a row unbeaten.
"We know Rangers changed their manager because they wanted to make some changes. It will not be the same team when we played against them in Glasgow. We expect a big team as always when Rangers play in international cups."
Rangers forward Abdallah Sima: "I'm a player who likes to play in behind (the defence) in spaces - [Clement] helped me a lot with that. We are playing the football I like to play. That's maybe why I'm scoring goals and I hope to score tomorrow as well."
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- Real Betis have lost their past two Europa League games against Scottish opponents (3-2 vs Celtic in 2021 and 1-0 vs Rangers earlier this season). Their only home game did end in victory, however, a 4-3 win over Celtic in 2021-22.Rangers have never won an away match in major European competition in Spain in 13 attempts (losing 10 times), failing against eight different teams (Sevilla, Real Madrid, Real Zaragoza, Athletic Club, Valencia, Osasuna, Villarreal and Barcelona).Real Betis have won their past two home Europa League matches, last winning three in a row in major European competition between 1998 and 2002 (a run of six).Rangers are unbeaten in their past three Europa League matches (winning once), their best unbeaten run in major European competition since a run of seven between October 2021 and March 2022.Against Aris Limassol, Rangers' Ross McCausland became the youngest Northern Irish player (20 years, 202 days) to score in major European competition since Michael O'Neill in 1989 in the Uefa Cup (20 years, 118 days), the manager who had given McCausland his Northern Ireland debut earlier that month.
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