CammyF

Thankfully Dessers has stepped up recently as once again, he is the only viable option we have at the moment. Igamane has lost his mojo and Danilo is out of the picture. An all too familiar story, he's the best we've got and at times he's all we've got.

Rangers 1 v 3 Celtic Dessers FGS

Cheers @Frankie - I think BP and heart rate are just about back to normal, and you had to remind me they we face them on Sunday 😁

Tav for me, two match saving tackles and led the way in the penalty shoot-out. Butland had some great saves and was immense at the penalties, Souttar was very good as well.

Phew....... Something magical and mystical about Thursday nights.....

Poor 1st half, all to do in 2nd half. Atmosphere poor as well hopefully performance picks up

Rangers 2 v 2 Fenerbache Cerny FGS

100% this. We (using the term loosely) tend to berate players who are actually available to play and contribute (Tav and Dessers) and "elevate" players who are injured / not contributing (Ridvan).

Former Turkish international Nihat, now a television pundit in Türkiye gave his thoughts on Rangers' performance in Istanbul last night: "I still can't believe what we watched. But let's be honest here - it should have been 5-1 and if Cyriel Dessers' shoulder wasn't as muscly, it would have been. Every top club in Turkey should be fighting to sign him. But there were plenty of others. Mohamed Diomande was brilliant - like the best of Zinedine Zidane - thank God they substituted him. And what a player Vaclav Cerny is. Honestly, the goals Rangers scored were like from a Playstation game - they were all so easy for them. How can Fenerbahce - a team who restricted Galatasaray to almost no chances at goal last week - give Rangers so many opportunities? Jose Mourinho went all-out attack in the second half and treated a team like Rangers like they were playing Rizespor. It was incredible because Fenerbahce were in such good form and then produced that. It was a crazy match and the tie should be over."

All players contributed to a fantastic team performance. For me Dessers, Cerny and Dio were the standouts and gone for Dessers but there is a case for most players to be honest.

First time Fenerbahce have lost a home European knock-out tie.

https://x.com/MEW1934/status/1897755968710099258

Echo these sentiments - RIP Christopher 🙏

https://x.com/_DIGB/status/1897733756544237900

Just been sent this and don't know if its true (one for the statos). If Barry Ferguson leads us to a victory next Thursday he'll have managed as many European Knockout wins in a week as Celtic have in 20 years.

Current mood and walking into work tomorrow morning

Scott Arfield Former Rangers midfielder on BBC Radio Scotland Everybody looks down on Scottish football and clubs and players that play in Scotland but it's proven time and time again that this club rises to the occasion in Europe.

You weren't alone. Just Rangers doing Rangers things. Woeful domestically, knocking it out the park in Europe.

On my giddy aunt.....

If he'd cut his toe-nails pre-match he'd have been on-side

Dessers robbed of a hat-trick. Good job as I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more..........

Again, I'm urprised how deep Dessers has been. Deepest of the "front 3".