Rangers managed to top group A thanks to a second half header from defender Alan Hutton but they missed a bucket load of chances along the way.

Paul Le Guen rested key players such as Barry Ferguson and Dado Prso ahead of the Old Firm derby and bought in Thomas Buffel, Filip Sebo, Julien Rodriguez, Makhtar N'Diaye and captain for the night Gavin Rae.

Rangers were looking to equal there record of 12 european games undefeated and they managed it tonight and they maybe should have had a penalty when Thomas Buffel went down in the box after just 5 minutes but the Referee wrong in my view from where I was sitting waved play on.

Partizan nearly scored on 9 minutes when a cross into the box should have been headed in however Nenad Mirosavljevic headed it across the box and Rangers cleared the danger.

However soon after Rangers hit the post when after nice play beetween Nacho Novo and Gavin Rae. Gavin Rae hit the post to the annoyance of the Rangers fans.

Rangers were dominatinating but were struggling to create real chances but the first fell to Filip Sebo who with his first shot was blocked by the keeper and the second hit the keeper's legs the pain was evident to see.

Rangers seemed to up the tempo after this miss with Buffel shooting straight at the keeper and then flighting a free kick over before the best chance of the half for Rangers fell to Nacho Novo but the keeper blocked well again with his feet.

When the team came out for the 2nd half Rangers coutined to control the game and the goal came through a Nacho Novo free kick when he flighted it in and Alan Hutton powered a header home.

Rangers relaxed and Partizan started to come back into to the game with Allan Mcgregor forced into a decent save from Ivan Tomic.

However Partizan should have equalised when Mirosavljevic held off Karl Svensonn to set up Ljubisa Vukelja who from 8 yards out fired wide. Then Allan Mcgregor made a great save from a Nenad Marinkovic's close range shot.