Every match is away for Dynamo - Mikhailitchenko

Rangers v Dynamo Kyiv (1-1) - Champions League 3rd qualifying round, 2nd leg

Date: Tuesday 13 August Venue: Hampden Park Kick-off: 19:45 BST

Coverage: Watch unrecorded connected BBC Scotland, perceive to BBC Sportsound connected Radio Scotland, matter updates connected BBC Sport website & app

Aleksey Mikhailitchenko enjoyed 5 trophy-laden years pinch Rangers, calling it "the champion clip of my career".

However, nan 61-year-old will beryllium rooting for Dynamo Kyiv astatine Hampden connected Tuesday and believes his chap Ukrainians will prevail to scope nan Champions League play-off round.

"I was calved successful Kyiv and played for Dynamo for 20 years," he told BBC Sport Scotland. "They are my squad and I make them nan favourite, moreover successful Glasgow.

"It’s nan only clip I can't afloat support Rangers... But it will beryllium close."

There was small to abstracted nan teams successful nan first leg, pinch Cyriel Dessers uncovering an equaliser pinch nan past footwear of nan shot successful Lublin, Poland.

Kyiv are incapable to play European matches astatine location owed to nan warfare successful Ukraine, while delayed building activity astatine Ibrox intends Rangers are temporarily rehoused.

"I felt Dynamo were a spot amended than Rangers and they were devastated by nan draw, but yet it doesn’t make a awesome woody of quality to them," said Mikhailitchenko.

"Dynamo person an advantage coming to Scotland successful that nan ambiance astatine Hampden is wholly different to playing astatine Ibrox.

"Playing distant from Ibrox will beryllium much difficult for Rangers, whereas each lucifer is an distant crippled for Dynamo."

Mikhailitchenko won back-to-back titles pinch Dynamo and Sampdoria successful Italy earlier his five-in-a-row for Rangers from 1991-96.

"Rangers, aft Dynamo, are nan first squad successful my bosom but unluckily Rangers and Celtic person swapped places since nan nineties," he added.

"Sadly, I cannot comparison nan squad now pinch nan squad I played in. It was afloat of awesome players, for illustration McCoist, Durrant, Gough and Laudrup.

"I americium judge Rangers will beryllium nan number 1 squad again though, location are ups and downs and location will beryllium an up soon."

Mikhailitchenko, who steered Dynamo to 5 trophies complete 2 spells arsenic caput coach, picked up 3 cups while successful Scotland.

There was besides a memorable tally successful nan inaugural Champions League play 1992-93 erstwhile Rangers came wrong a extremity of nan final.

But his favourite lucifer came not astatine Ibrox but Celtic Park successful 1994.

"The crippled that stood retired was nan New Year derby astatine Celtic," he said. "We won 4-2 and I scored doubly and Oleg Kuznetsov scored one.

"Walter Smith and Archie Knox told everyone astatine training aft that not to fuss nan Ukrainians for a week! There were galore bully memories, though."

Mikhailitchenko will beryllium bringing his youngest son, calved aft he near Rangers, to Glasgow and hopes to drawback up pinch immoderate aged friends.

"It has been a difficult clip successful Ukraine but nan group will ne'er springiness up truthful either it’s a affirmative outcome, aliases we proceed arsenic we are," he said. "There are similarities betwixt Scotland and Ukraine – nan group are truthful patriotic."