Scotland's hopes of holding on to a spot in UEFA's top 10 rankings are hanging by a thread.
Celtic have been blamed for the run in Europe that has seen Fiorentina emerge as the only side that can rescue Scotland's top 10 coefficient spot.
With Viktoria Plzen reaching the Europa Conference League quarter-finals, any positive result for the Czechs against the Serie A outfit would see Scotland drop out of the 10 best performing nations in the UEFA rankings. And Record columnist Tam McManus was hovering over the panic button with Scotland's spot for automatic qualification for Europe's elite competition hanging by a thread.
View gallery McManus told PLZ: "It's huge. Plzen got Fiorentina which is pretty good from our point of view. I think they are second favourites to win the competition so you would hope Fiorentina can beat them home and away and Plzen don't get any coefficient points. "So I think there would have been a lot of people wanting Rangers to get through that tie from a Scottish point of view, but unfortunately they didn't. So hopefully Fiorentina turn Plzen over and we can just cling on to that 10th spot."
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