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Kamara got caught on the ball the first minute of the second half, almost leading to a goal, but since then he's been brilliant. He regained possession numerous times. I think it's because he's kept it simple. 

Davis also gave it away on a couple of occasions. 

I think we've been well on top.

Polster playing DM has been quite assured, albeit safe.

Ojo should have scored, being played through one on one, but his shot is saved.

Katic powers a header in from the resulting corner.

From what I've heard - haven't been able to see it, yet - we've played well. 

Docherty, Jones and Defoe seemed to be most lively.

[HT] Rangers 0 - 0 Derby

1 minute ago, der Berliner said:

I would assume we line up something like this ...

 

Foderingham

Tavernier - Helander - Katić - Bariŝić

Davis - Kamara

Docherty - Arfield -  Jones

 

Defoe

Subs: Firth, Edmundson, Goldson, Ojo, Flanagan, Halliday, Aribo, Morelos, Polster

How many times are you going to post the 4-2-3-1?!

It'll be the normal 4-3-2-1:

Foderingham

Tavernier - Helander - Katić - Bariŝić

Docherty - Davis - Kamara

Arfield -  Jones

Defoe

I've seen the Sky Sports ticker, showing the Scottish League Cup scores, go past about three times, and each time I've thought, 'Oh--were we playing Raith today?'.  

Cove Rangers.

Aren't Raith in the Championship? Cove just beat them 3-0.

What about a #10?  

Oh, no! Madagascar 2 is on at the same time!

Schadenfreude.

1 hour ago, Gaffer said:

I agree with your observations regarding the width, but that width should be provided in addition to the central three midfielders (or at least the two furthest advanced midfielders, which last night were Jack and Aribo), but Tav was constantly sitting so far forward that Jack was sitting in as the right back for at least 20 minutes in that game.  That's surely not right.  Tav needs to be selective in when he goes forward.  His time to move forward is as the right attacking midfielder is receiving the ball, not when McGregor has it.  I really don't want anyone to take this as anti Tavernier because nothing could be further from the way I feel.  I really like the guy but he was ineffective last night and I had hoped this would have been obvious and therefore resulted in him being smarter about when he made forward runs, at least enough to allow Jack to get in the middle of the park and get forward.  Jack was eliminated from the midfield because Tav sat forward.  That's surely not being disputed, or is it?  This then caused us to be weaker in the middle of the park, reducing how effective our central attack was, and allowing them more space to break.

To build out from the back, that's where Jack should be. IMO.  

I thought Tavernier was ineffective in his end-product, but not in his positioning; he was isolated, one-on-one, against that left-back time and time again, which is what we should be doing, IMO.

I do agree that Jack can move further forward to aid in the attack and ball-recycling -- that was arguably our biggest success last night, at least in the first half: Aribo, Jack and Davis occupying the half-space to aid control, ball-recovery and keeping the pressure on; while also getting into dangerous areas.  

19 minutes ago, DMAA said:

Let's not get carried away. The season has barely started, traditionally we would still be in pre-season right now. I know this is an opinion you've held for a long time but I think his strong performances will return when the league season starts. A reminder of the final assists standings from last season...

 

Assists
Tav - 20
Candeias - 10
Arfield - 7
Jack - 6
Kent - 6

 

And 17 goals. 

Milan will be in the market for a Striker, as they're selling Cutrone to Wolves. 

That's pretty much full-strength, for me, excepting the odd change. 

9 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Rangers website reporting that Kyle Lafferty leaving Rangers by mutual consent.

RANGERS can today confirm that Kyle Lafferty’s contract has been terminated by mutual consent.

https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/kyle-lafferty-2/

I'm disappointed Candeias has gone, but I can see the logic in it.

I say My-tja-land. 

I'm pretty sure I've heard it before. 

Mmm...

We're not getting past Wolves, IMO. 

I think Legia (finished 2nd in their league), Gent (5th), Midtjylland (2nd) and Alkmaar (4th) will be tricky ties. We'll need to be at our best.  

If he dominates in the next 50+ games for Pompey, then he'll return a much better player. 

Sloppy performance. It is the game for it, however.

We're under quite an intense press, but we're still keeping the ball, impressively, although it's nervy.  

5 minutes ago, Tannochsidebear said:

1-1 Sloppy defending allows an equaliser.

 

Kamara gives the ball away at edge of our own box, nice 1-2 and while McGregor saves the first shot the rebound is a tap in.

The ball from Katic into Kamara was piss poor, to be fair. 

Sloppy possession, by several players, gifts them a goal. Stupid. Self-inflicted.