{"id":780578,"date":"2026-09-24T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780578\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:12:17","slug":"rangers-face-europa-cup-exit-but-hearts-still-in-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780578\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers face Europa Cup exit but Hearts still in tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers are staring at elimination from the Europa Cup after losing 2-0 to Swedish side Hammarby in the first leg of their second qualifying round tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elin Sorum finished at the back post to give last season&#8217;s runners-up the lead just before the half hour mark in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts also hit the bar before finding a crucial second goal three minutes from the end, when  substitute Fanny Peterson struck from outside the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It leaves Leanne Crichton&#8217;s side with a difficult task to progress at Broadwood in next week&#8217;s second leg, after Sunday&#8217;s derby with Celtic in the SWPL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Scottish champions Hearts will take a 0-0 draw over to Spain after they survived a late penalty scare against Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">La Real were given the chance to win the first leg at Ainslie Park in stoppage time when Carly Girasoli was penalised in the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Nerea Eizaguirre missed the resulting penalty as the match ended all square. Both return legs are on Wednesday 30 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers are staring at elimination from the Europa Cup after losing 2-0 to Swedish side Hammarby in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}