Rousseau

We've given them two goals.

Unbelievable.

Oh--we've scored.

I actually thought all South American's went down easily. 

Luis Suarez and Diego Costa can be a dirty buggers, but the least wee touch and they're throwing themselves to the ground like they've been shot. 

Morelos needs to learn that. 

When Morelos feels anything like that he needs to go down. 

Brown's thrown himself to the ground, giving the ref an easy decision.

It's going to be a cricket score. 

Probably a red, to be fair. 

Played right into Brown's hands. 

Brown knows what he's doing with the little dig.  

Morelos sent off?

Why?

Individually we look so bad. 

What an embarrassment. 

Well covered there from Goldson, but what is Worral doing!? He's given it away a couple of times now!

He actually did well coming out of defense, initially.

Fair tackle there from Brown...   

It was almost at his knees!

Arfield looks ready for it, though.

Their CB's are better with the ball: Ajer brings it out constantly when there's nothing on, opening up the space. 

Our's try to force it, giving it away. 

It's a simple thing, IMO.

We're compact but we're not marking their midfielders! Ntcham especially has had too much space.

Suicide. 

I think Lustig, Boyata, Tierney and Ntcham were all doubts for today according to the press.

Oh--look at that: they all play. 

The first two are actually a bonus for us, anyway!  

I think that's a solid team.

It'll be a counter-attacking game for us today. I hope our forwards are ready to take their chances. 

Sorry -- I should have cobbled together a match thread, but I suppose this will suffice. 

The Sky Sports Preview focuses on Lennon, so we'll give that a miss...

It's a rumour; no one knows for sure, @RANGERRAB.

I agree CB will be needing strengthened, but I still think we need options up front too (that's Forwards and Wingers).  

I saw a rumour of Lewis Holtby (#10), who's leaving Hamburg at the end of the season. 

He's German, but with an English mother or father, I think?

He's the type of player I'd like. 

I don't think there's anything in it, though. 

That was quite interesting. 

I think having some sort of communication with the Referee during a match would be quite good, going forward. 

3 hours ago, Rousseau said:

He smashed his goal in from 2 yards when it was loose. 

 

If he was playing LB--which I believe is true--I think he was responsible for their first goal; his man should not be scoring from there. 'Keeper probably takes some of the blame too. 

 

Still, it's nice to see a Rangers player playing at that level. 

Seeing it again, it wasn't actually Barasic marking the guy, so not his fault.  

He smashed his goal in from 2 yards when it was loose. 

If he was playing LB--which I believe is true--I think he was responsible for their first goal; his man should not be scoring from there. 'Keeper probably takes some of the blame too. 

Still, it's nice to see a Rangers player playing at that level. 

The tactics have evolved but the positions you're talking about are still around--they just have different names.

Man City line up in the WM formation, first developed in the 30s! 

I think a half-back is a 6? Inside forward is more of an 8, or actually still just an inside forward (Or, they are maybe further forward a wee touch)? 

1 minute ago, buster. said:

Look at his time at Bayern Munich without Messi or Money (in amount relative to direct CL competiors) where he didn't make a CL final and tended to get THUMPED in semi-finals or DUMPED by a Diego Simeone masterclass.

 

Let's see how the CL goes this season..............

Three Semi-finals on the bounce, I think (?), and they ran away with the League / Cup every season. 

I agree it is looking like Messi was the difference. I don't see that changing this season. They'll lose -- hopefully!  -- in the Semi-finals. 

I saw that graph yesterday -- I didn't notice we were on it (twice!).

I think Guardiola is a superior coach to any other. 

There's no doubt money has helped -- and it looks like his CL wins have been down to Messi -- but I don't think it's the main reason. 

10 hours ago, DMAA said:

We had 39% possession according the to BBC, what the heck happened?

No way we had 39% possession. 

They were camped out on their 18-yard-box.