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Rangers' Wee Spot in Europe - Season 2023/24


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From stadiums with hedges and managers in hedges. It shows how far we've came that drawing with Benfica seems like a loss.

Some great fitba from the team let down by silly errors from Helander and Arfield. 

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Few observations from that.

1. Kent is a really frustrating player. His workrate and runs caused problems all night, but his lack of quality arguably costs rangers the game. He and Darwin similar chances. The better player of the two (technically) scores his.

2. What is Arfield doing a goal up in stoppage time giving the ball away under no pressure

3. Kamara was outstanding, but out on his feet the last 10 minutes. Gerard doesn't make a change and they lose a cheap goal through the centre of the park.

4. Helander isnt good defending against any sort of pace or movement. At fault for all 3 goals and looked like he would struggle all second half. Easy in hindsight, but should have been Balogun based on that and surely will be in the return game.

It's great seeing a Scottish team play so well against good European opposition, but there's also something typically Scottish about blowing a 2 goal lead in the last 15 minutes against 10 men (as it had been for 70 minutes) and it being completely self inflicted.

Also worth pointing out that they looked stronger than rangers in the last 10, having played a man short for an hour by that stage. Their manager made changes to keep his side fresh, Gerard didn't (1 sub?). That was a poor call IMO.

A good point before the game, a poor point afterwards.

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2 minutes ago, gaz5 said:

Few observations from that.

1. Kent is a really frustrating player. His workrate and runs caused problems all night, but his lack of quality arguably costs rangers the game. He and Darwin similar chances. The better player of the two (technically) scores his.

2. What is Arfield doing a goal up in stoppage time giving the ball away under no pressure

3. Kamara was outstanding, but out on his feet the last 10 minutes. Gerard doesn't make a change and they lose a cheap goal through the centre of the park.

4. Helander isnt good defending against any sort of pace or movement. At fault for all 3 goals and looked like he would struggle all second half. Easy in hindsight, but should have been Balogun based on that and surely will be in the return game.

It's great seeing a Scottish team play so well against good European opposition, but there's also something typically Scottish about blowing a 2 goal lead in the last 15 minutes against 10 men (as it had been for 70 minutes) and it being completely self inflicted.

Also worth pointing out that they looked stronger than rangers in the last 10, having played a man short for an hour by that stage. Their manager made changes to keep his side fresh, Gerard didn't (1 sub?). That was a poor call IMO.

A good point before the game, a poor point afterwards.

That's a decent post and pretty-much sums up my own view.  The only thing missing is that, after Kent's miss, we were far too lax and played at training pace and got what we deserved.

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