Rousseau

We've made a good start. 

Aribo is started well. He's playing further forward. 

Davis pulling the strings, and Kent pushing them back.

1 minute ago, les186 said:

Rangers are struggling a bit here. Aribo, Stewart and Arfield aren't contributing enough.

Aribo and Arfield I agree with, but I think Stewart has done OK, although it's not came off for him. 

[HT] 1-1. 

I don't think we've played badly at all.

They scored a lucky goal out of nothing, and, OK, we were a little sloppy in defending it too.

The tempo has been good for large spells, but we've not really created a clear-cut chance; all half-chances. And, we missed a penalty.  

They're are a good side; difficult to play against.

The frustration has come from the piss poor Ref, and their time-wasting tactics.  

1-1. 

Defoe. 

Kent comes on for Barker, who's injured, I think. 

He's hit the post...  

Penalty to Rangers.

Tavernier buys it, I think. 

I'll take it. 

They're taking a minute to take a throw-in. Every time. 

FFS.

Goldson smashed with an elbow. 

Nothing. 

You couldn't write it. 

They've hand-balled it twice in two minutes, with nothing being given. 

I'm not sure Helander is suiting these long balls. If it's close enough to header, then he's fine, but anything where he has to run he's struggling. 

0-1 Motherwell. 

I don't know how they got the chance; it just seemed to bounce for them. 

It was sloppy too, to be fair. 

I'd say we were caught out be 'Well's strong start, aggressive start, but we've started to up the tempo now, hemming them in a little. 

15 minute and the Referee has made a few puzzling decisions. 

It's quite an offensive central three too; with Aribo, Davis, Arfield. 

Stewart should suit this game.

24 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Aberdeen totally lying down to Keltic 0-3.☹️

Did we really expect anything else?

Scottish Premiership

Sunday, 27th Oct 2019, 3:00pm

Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow

AFTER claiming an important Europa League Group G point against Porto last night, Steven Gerrard wants his side to rise to another big challenge on Sunday when Motherwell come to Ibrox.

The Steelmen currently sit third in the Ladbrokes Premiership table and have yet to lose away from home in the league – having won three of their fixtures and drawn one on their travels.

Gerrard expects a tough test against Stephen Robinson’s men and when asked if he could make several changes to his starting eleven on the back of the midweek trip to Portugal, the manager replied: “We’ll freshen it up but it won’t be wholesale changes.

Read more here:

https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/ill-not-make-wholesale-changes/

£20M.  

Man City-Villa, or Wednesday-Leeds? 

I think I'll watch the Leeds game; could be a good game. 

4 minutes ago, Briton said:

Amazing that Cyprus have climbed so high.  

Yeah -- probably because APOEL, I think, have qualified for the CL group stage for a few years on the bounce.

Edit: Just had a look: they've qualified for the CL group stages 4 times in the last 10 years, including reaching the Quarter-finals! They've had a decent showing in the Europa League too. 

32 minutes ago, onevision said:

Brilliant performance last night, only downside for me was that our substitutions although almost like for like seemed to weakens us.

Almost felt like 2 points dropped which is tough to say as we played so well. 

I understand where you're coming from, but after that Swiss game, I'll take the point; we could have easily have let it slip away if it wasn't for a double save from McGregor, even if we deserved the win or not. 

Barker played his role to perfection, I thought.

I cant fault any of them. 

59 minutes ago, JFK-1 said:

Feyenoord 2-0 down at young boys. Crazy group but perhaps YB aren't so bad as they were painted to be.

I don't think they're bad at all; quite the opposite.

We still threw the game away; it was in our hands.

Very proud of that performance.

Porto couldn't get the ball off us for the first 30 minutes of that second half; we passed through them with some delightful interplay.

Couple of glorious opportunities that we really have to take - like the swiss last time out - at this level.

I actually wrote these two matches off when the draw was made; but we can compete with this team, even if they perhaps weren't at their best.

We did need a wonderful save from McGregor to see it out. It's frustrating playing so well and still be in the situation where that one chance, however undeserved, ruins it for us. 

We got the job done; brilliant point.