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Mohamed Diomande’s Rangers display has earned him a comparison to Zinedine Zidane as blown away Turkish legend and TV pundit Nihat insisted every top club in the country will be chasing Cyriel Dessers.

Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce couldn’t live with Barry Ferguson’s Gers in Istanbul, who won 3-1 to give themselves a huge advantage to take into the second leg at Ibrox And former Real Sociedad and 69-times capped ex-Turkey ace Nihat couldn’t praise the performance of Rangers highly enough. He said: “I still can’t believe what we watched. But let’s be honest here – it should have been 5-1 and if Cyriel Dessers’ shoulder wasn’t as muscly, it would have been. Every top club in Turkey should be fighting to sign him. But there were plenty of others.

“Mohamed Diomande was brilliant – like the best of Zinedine Zidane – thank God they substituted him. And what a player Vaclav Cerny is.

“Honestly, the goals Rangers scored were like from a Playstation game – they were all so easy for them. How can Fenerbahce – a team who restricted Galatasaray to almost no chances at goal last week – give Rangers so many opportunities?

“Jose Mourinho went all-out attack in the second half and treated a team like Rangers like they were playing Rizespor. It was incredible because Fenerbahce were in such good form and then produced that. It was a crazy match and the tie should be over.”

The Italian giants or this season’s hosts – the final will be played at Athletic’s Estadio de San Mames in May – lie in wait if Rangers can hold firm against Fenerbahce.

So the Gers have a vested interest in the result between these two sides, with AS Roma giving Athletic a late bloody nose in Rome to take an advantage to Spain.

Inaki Williams had given the La Liga outfit the lead on the road after a goalless first-half, popping up at the back post to nod home a corner five minutes into the second period.