Hearts head coach Wouter Vrancken tells BBC Scotland: "In sport, anything can happen. We have to be realistic, of course. We're playing a top European team.

"Laurent Mendy was playing fifth tier in England a few weeks ago and now he's playing Benfica. That's football and we have to put everything on the pitch and stick together.

"When you press them, you have to be perfect. You cannot leave spaces.

"They're comfortable on the ball, they will play through the gaps. It will be difficult, but we have to take our moments to try and play football."

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Brian McLauchlin
BBC Sport Scotland in Lisbon

The pre-match show here in Lisbon is well and truly under way and, despite the stadium only being around half-full at the moment, the atmosphere is really cranking up.

Not sure how these Hearts players will cope with this. A huge task tonight.

Motherwell manager Alfred Johansson tells BBC Scotland: "I think it was a good performance. I'm very, very proud of the players.

"I think we dug deep, I thought the young players who came on in the second half impacted the game. I think we played parts of the game at a high level.

"It was an unfortunate situation where we conceded a goal. It's a very experienced number nine they have, it can happen. I'm proud of the performance and I think we did a good job here.

"The players started to be even more brave in their decision-making. It's mainly the players who decided to say 'let's play'. The players turned up the heat a little bit and that was good to see.

"Home advantage is always a thing. To be able to play at Fir Park with all of our people in the stands, it's something to look forward to."

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Andy Halliday
Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Sportsound

The positives would be the introduction of the half-time subs, Findlay Curtis and Nico Raskin in particular. Both played with so much enthusiasm.

Curtis had a fearless nature to try to make a positive impact. Not everything came off, but when he gets the ball, he drives at players, he plays one-two, he's running off the ball and having efforts at goal.

That alone sparked Rangers into that 5% or 10% more on the ball.

Steven Thompson
Former Rangers striker on BBC Sportsound

The second-half performance was better, in an attacking sense. Findlay Curtis had a large part to play in that. He didn't have that first thought of, when he received the ball, laying it back or looking for a sitting midfielder.

He wants to go and take people on. It's brilliant to see that, because there's not enough of that in this Rangers side. He put in a number of good deliveries.

His performance was one of the major positives from the evening.

Derek McInnes will be angry at the first half, but he can take positives from the second half.

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Andy Halliday
Former Rangers and Hearts midfielder on BBC Sportsound

I always love when we've got a positive outlook and our sides have a bit more of a go, but Hearts need to take a bit of realism into account.

He's got four forwards on the pitch, Blair Spittal as a deep-lying midfielder. Altena and Milne, both attack-minded full-backs.

To say that's bold would be the understatement of all understatements.

Shkendija have made three changes from their 3-1 victory over Slovenian side Bravo in the previous qualifying round.

In goals, Ferat Ramani replaces Astrit Amzai, while outfield, versatile defender Bojan Dimoski and midfielder Sebastjan Spahiu are replaced in the starting line-up by Jovan Manev and Endrit Krasniqi.

David Gray goes with the same starting line-up from Scottish Premiership defeat by Motherwell at the weekend.

Forward Martin Boyle, who was a doubt for the game, is fit enough to start for Hibs.

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Back-up goalkeeper Samuel Soares gets a rare start for Benfica in place of number one Anatoliy Trubin.

That's one of three changes to the side that thrashed St Gallen 5-0 in their last game.

There's another in defence, with Antonio Silva out after joining Bournemouth for a reported £26m. Tomas Araujo comes in to replace him and captain the side, having reported back from the World Cup with Portugal.

And, on the wing, 20-year-old Gianluca Prestianni starts after serving his Uefa ban for using a homophobic slur towards Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior.

Two changes for Hearts from the side that threw away a win at Pittodrie on Saturday evening - and they come at the top end of the pitch.

Pierre Landry Kabore is in, with Amadou Ba-Sy dropping to the bench. Neither have scored yet this season.

Winger Alexandros Kzyiridis also comes in, with Sabah Kerjota named among the subs after his very first start in a Hearts shirt.

On the bench, there's places for young defenders MJ Kamson-Kamara and Matthew Gillies, who could both make debuts if called upon.

Hibernian: Sallinger, Passlack, Kerr, O'Hora, Obita, Mulligan, Chaiwa, Mayor, Elding, Boyle, Lowe.

Substitutes: Smith, Owens, Hanley, Newell, Klidje, Molotnikov, Suto, Wright, Megwa, J MacIntyre, Campbell, Abdulai.

Shkendija: Ramani, Trumci, Manev, Melliqi, Zejnullai, Rafael Freitas, D Islami, Tamba, Krasniqi, Kryeziu, Ndzengue.

Substitutes: Amzai, B Ibraimi, Murati, Ceka, Krstevski, Isa, Spahiu, Ramadani, Gjorgjiveski.

Benfica: Soares, Dahl, Lenglet, Araujo, Bah, Barrenechea, Rafa Silva, Barrerio, Suakov, Prestianni, Pavlidis.

Substitutes: Trubin, Lukebakio, Kaminski, Manu Silva, Dedic, Rios, Schjelderup, Duran, Indio, Neto, Cabral, Figueiredo.

Heart of Midlothian: Reus, Altena, McEntee, Findlay, Milne, Spittal, Mendy, Miller, Braga, Kyziridis, Kabore.

Substitutes: Clark, Fulton, McCart, Renaud, McPake, Guendouz, Wilson, Magnusson, Kamson-Kamara, Kerjota, Gillies, Ba-Sy.

We'll bring you more reaction from Finland and Poland while turning our attention to Hearts against Benfica and Hibs against Shkendija.

Andy Halliday
Former Rangers, Hearts & Motherwell midfielder on BBC Sportsound

Opening minutes of the second half, Motherwell were outstanding.

They got their penalty and HJK Helsinki didn't look like they were going to get back into it.

But Teemu Pukki did what he does best and flashed in the equaliser.

Rangers have it all to do in the second leg.

It could be argued that it could have been a bigger defeat after Jagiellonia threatened to add to Kajetan Szmyt's double.

Derek McInnes' side failed to build on an early own goal, but half-time changes shifted the momentum in their favour and Findlay Curtis was unlucky not to find an equaliser with a shot off the post.

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Lawrence Shankland nods it down well for Findlay Curtis, who steps onto the ball well and rattles the post.

The young winger has been the brightest spark for Derek McInnes' side since coming on as a substitute.

We've got two minutes left of stoppage time.

On the balance of the game a draw probably feels like a fair result. HJK Helsinki controlled the first half, while Motherwell, particularly at the start of the second, looked the better side.

Still, a draw to take back to Fir Park for the second leg next week is a very decent result and one you've got to assume visiting manager Alfred Johansson will be happy with.

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Lawrence Shankland almost scores with his first touch.

The ball falls to the Rangers striker from a corner just a yard or so from goal, but the home goalkeeper does well to smother the attempt immediately.