Champions League/Panathinaikos 1; Rangers 1: Rangers produced a brave performance against all the odds as Panathinaikos and their fans soured the Champions League.
The Athens club were reduced to 10 men after substitute Ioannis Goumas was sent off early in the second half and they had four others booked as their supporters rained a torrent of missiles and flares down on to the pitch.
The Scots kept their cool and went ahead through the Brazilian Emerson in the first half but lost a late equaliser to Pantelis Konstantinidis.
The Scots surprised the Greeks by taking the game to them from the outset and three times in the opening few minutes they had them in serious difficulty.
Perhaps the best of the early opportunities came from a Mikel Arteta free-kick that the midfielder drove across the six-yard box. It begged for a touch but none was forthcoming.
The Panathinaikos response was swift and while Rangers had gone close they went even closer after 11 minutes when a volley from Silvio Maric beat Rangers goalkeeper Stefan Klos but not Arteta, who headed off the line.
Unshaken, the visitors continued to play the ball around purposefully.
So much so that the Panathinaikos coach Itzhak Shum was summoned to the touchline by the referee Arturo Dauden Ibanez after a display of petulance from the Israeli and perhaps inevitably the meeting was greeted by a volley of plastic bottles and cups.
Undaunted, Rangers actually took the lead after 34 minutes. Mols sent Nuno Capucho scampering down the right and the former Porto star measured his low cross to perfection as Emerson slid in ahead of Giorgos Seitaridis to stab the ball home from a couple of yards out.
Just how rattled the home team were was amply illustrated inside the first two minutes of the second half when Ioannis Doumas, just on for Sotirios Kirgiakos, sent Peter Lovenkrands hurtling into the advertising hoardings and was booked.
Then it became a Greek tragedy for Goumas. The substitute pulled at Arveladze as the striker tried to burst through and the Spanish official did not hesitate before producing another yellow card and therefore a red. Goumas had lasted just 11 minutes.
That decision, however, was met with further dissatisfaction as more missiles, plus two flares hurtled on to the pitch.
The fans indiscipline was matched by the home players and Joel Epalle was next to be booked for a ridiculous foul on Zurab Khizanishvili.
The home team appeared to have no run out of attacking ideas before, with just two minutes remaining, Papadopoulos crossed for Konstantinidis to head home from close range.
PANATHINAIKOS: Chalkias, Seitaridis, Maurice, Kirgiakos (Goumas 45), Fyssas, Michaelsen, Maric, Epalle (Konstantinidis 79), Zutautas, Vlaovic (Papadopoulos 63), Konstantinou. Subs Not Used: Nikopolidis, Munch, Sanmartean, Basinas. Sent Off: Goumas (56). Booked: Maric, Vlaovic, Goumas, Epalle. Goal: Konstantinidis 87.
RANGERS: Klos, Khizanishvili, Moore, Berg, Ball, Capucho, Arteta, Emerson, Lovenkrands (Vanoli 76), Mols, Arveladze (Nerlinger 85). Subs Not Used: McGregor, Ostenstad, Malcolm, Ross, Hughes. Booked: Arteta. Goals: Emerson 35.
Referee: Arturo Dauden Ibanez (Spain).
