Eintracht Frankfurt v Glasgow Rangers live updates - Frankfurt and Rangers draw 1-1 and go to penalties....

It's nearly time! I cannot wait for this - again, I think it's the contagious excitement of the fans and players. My team were in last season's final and I can't say I wasn't up for it, but I'd seen them win it in 2017 and also seen them win two European Cups, so the levels weren't the same. Other hand, these are buzzing for the greatest time of their life, and it's impossible not to find that moving.

Van Bronckhorst is excited, saying his team are ready. You don't have to prepare differently for a final, he says, though you can't help but feel the pressure because you're so close to the prize. But the team are focused and he's glad to have Aaron Ramsey and Kemar Roofe back on the bench.

It shouldn't be forgotten that Rangers have the Scottish Cup final on Saturday - what a week this could be! In the best and worst possible way! Eeesh!

Talking of whom, this is a great thread on them.

The ground is already close to full, and I can't wait to hear the row when the players join us. I say this every time I cover Rangers, but I've been lucky enough to watch football all over the world, and I've never been anywhere as loud as Ibrox was the first time I went there. Add to that the Eintracht ultras, and you've got a recipe for absolute fireworks, whatever absolute fireworks are.

I'll tell you which Rangers player I've been most impressed with lately: Calvin Bassey. And literally as I type that, Ally McCoist says similar - I didn't copy, I promise - but he's been so solid and inspirational.

In all the excitement, we shouldn't forget the ridiculousness of the job Giovanni van Bronckhorst has done. Arriving mid-season and revitalising a team on the fly suggests he's a very serious individual, able to get the players going but also an extremely astute tactician.

I can't imagine that, obviously.

James Tavernier, leading scorer in the Europa League this season, seems a lovely boy. He says that he needs some serious time to himself to grasp what Rangers have achieved this season, and doesn't think he'll get it until he retires. Imagine that! Doing something so good you literally cannot process it.

In fairness, Rangers were pretty well out of that.

These two have met before.

I love this - a European final should be a treat, not a disappointment.

Oh man, my eyeballs are sweating already. BT just showed us some VT of Walter Smith, their manager when they last made a European final in 2008, losing the Uefa Cup final to Zenit. Then Ally McCoist has to fight back the tears talking about what a mensch his manager and close mate was, and how he can't bring himself to delete his number from his phone now that he's passed, also nothing he was a man of whom no one had a bad word to say. What an epitaph that is!

Rangers, meanwhile, play the same team that beat Leipzig so incredibly in the second leg of the semi-final. They'll need gigantic performances from pretty much everyone to win tonight, but they've become adept and pulling that off, so there's no reason to think they can't do the same tonight.

Eintracht line up as expected, but are without Hinteregger, who's injured; Lindstrom, though, is fit, and is one of the men behind the striker in Oliver Glasner's 3-4-2-1.

Let's have some teams...

Who had this as their final then? Even after the first leg of the semis, who thought this was the match we were getting tonight? Not me, I can assure you, but let me tell you this: I cannot wait for this. Both sides have been nothing short of amazing in reaching this stage, Eintracht in winning away to Barcelona and West Ham, Rangers in beating Dortmund and Leipzig. It's a beauty of the Europa League that it throws up finals like this, played in by players for whom this is the pinnacle of their career, who were desperate to get here, gave everything to get there, and now they're here will compete like they've never competed before. I've not a clue what's going to happen but I'll tell you this much: it's going to be terrifyingly, affirmingly, inspirationally intense. Yes!