Once you have reached the heights in football, you want to experience the thrill again.

DaMarcus Beasley wants to repeat his experience of appearing in the Champions League semi-final and thinks he has a good chance of doing just that with Rangers this year. The USA international is in line for a place when Montenegrin champions FK Zeta come to Ibrox for the first leg of the second round of qualifying tonight night. Zeta have shown they are a team with resilience and should not be underestimated despite this being their first time in Europe's premier club competition. But Beasley, who joined from PSV Eindhoven this summer after a spell on loan at Manchester City, has already seen enough of his new club-mates to be confident of a lengthy run in Europe for Rangers this season. He insists the quality in the Ibrox dressing room is on a par with that of the PSV team who were denied a place in the 2005 Champions League final, in his debut season in Holland, by an AC Milan side who progressed on away goals.

He said: "In my first year at PSV, we had to qualify for the Champions League and we had to go to Belgrade, which was a tough place to play. We were in the same boat as Rangers are now and that was when we made the semi-finals. With the team we have at Rangers, and the desire and commitment that we have for each other, I think we can do the same thing. We have a lot of quality in our group, which showed a lot on Saturday against Chelsea, so I think if we can get through these two games, the sky is the limit for this club."

Beasley has not had much of a break this close season as he was playing in the Gold Cup before he signed and moved to Rangers. However, he does does not think that be a problem tonight. He said: "One of the reasons I came here was because I wanted to come to a club that has ambitions of playing in the Champions League every year. That's where they should be and there is no reason why they shouldn't be in the Champions League this year, next year and the year after that. Hearing that music and playing against some of the best teams in the world, it doesn't get much better than the Champions League. It's not the easiest start to the season but I wouldn't have it any other way."

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