After a thoroughly depressing start to the UEFA qualifiers last week, Hearts, Hibs and Motherwell go into this week's second legs facing varying degrees of difficulty as they try to progress.
Motherwell are the only one of the three playing away, but a 2-0 home win should give them confidence before their Conference League second qualifying round return in the Faroe Islands.
Hibs bring their Kosovan opponents back to Easter Road after an embarrassing 2-0 defeat last week. They are hoping to produce only the 11th occasion on which a Scottish club has overturned a first-leg deficit of two or more goals in Europe.
Hearts are up first though, and they have an almost impossible task after losing the first leg in Austria 4-0. However this article will still show that it is possible to progress from this seemingly helpless situation.
This article will look at the best ever European comebacks, before focusing only on the Scottish comebacks. It ends with a plea for Motherwell to not become the 14th Scottish side to blow a first leg 2 goal victory to then be eliminated.
Hearts - After Losing a 1st Leg By 4+
Hearts had faced four previous European ties in which they lost the first leg by at least four goals. They failed to progress from all four, although they were unbeaten in each return match. That run includes a 0-0 draw at White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur in 2011, when a young Harry Kane had a penalty saved.
Hibs - After Losing a 1st Leg By 2+
Hibs have now lost the first leg of a European tie by two or more goals on 12 occasions, progressing only once. That famous comeback against Napoli is covered in more detail below.
The closest they have come to repeating it was against AEK Athens 25 years ago. Hibs took the Greek giants to extra time at Easter Road before being eliminated 4-3 on aggregate.
The Best European Comebacks
The graphic below includes every occasion on which a European club progressed after losing the first leg by four goals.
It also includes teams that fell four goals behind at another stage of the tie. That covers clubs who lost the first leg by three before conceding first in the return, along with teams who trailed by four during the first leg before reducing the deficit before full time.
Only six clubs have progressed after losing the first leg by four goals in the history of men's European club competition.
Including every recovery from four goals behind at any stage of a tie adds another seven, giving us 13 four-goal comebacks. One of them is almost certainly the greatest ever Scottish comeback in European football:
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