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I don’t think anyone is fearing them. Of course we can beat them, but I would imagine every bookie will have them as favourites as they appear to have a stronger squad, it would be a big achievement for us to navigate this tie.

Really tough tie. I see us as underdogs, probably 60-40. But anything can happen and a 2 goal win tonight is probably required.

The rule should be changed imo. The offside rule is all about unfair advantage and if the ball is played backwards you are at a disadvantage if you are closer to the goal than everyone else.

With this one he was in an offside position but the ball was played backwards. It wasn’t offside in the past if the ball was played backwards.

Ball was played backwards. I did see someone say that was still offside but I don’t understand how.

Really pleased to see Colak get another goal. If a linesman had done his job that would be 4 goals in 5, and that’s even after being subbed fairly early in two of those. We need to provide him with more service if he is to keep it up, he’s feeding off scraps sometimes even against the dross. Would be interesting to see his goals vs xG.

We missed out on a brilliant player in Veerman. That was the most excited I had been in a very long time about a transfer rumour.

Tillman for me. I thought he was creatively excellent. Provided a real spark, linked up well and played probably more key passes than anyone. Crucially, provided the winning goal. Played out of position which has to be taken into account too.

Wow!! I’m the first to admit I didn’t see that coming. Credit has to go to GVB for getting the team right. Also, Tillman brilliant tonight, what a player we have on our hands. Colak deserves credit too, he’s a goal threat.

Good to see a bolder starting 11. The traditionalist in me can’t help but think it’s a night for 2 strikers, but hopefully this team has goals in it.

Yeh I saw that after my post, it was someone on radio Scotland who had said it. Jota didn’t score but got 3 assists though.

The trio that lost us the league last season.

I think it’s worrying, there has been no change in the way we play from last season. Worrying too that Celtic have picked up from where they left off, goals from each of their front 3 today. A lot of improvement required.

There are gems to be found from the youth of the elite clubs and we should be doing it more. The players are desperate for first team football and the clubs don’t need the money so you can get a better price than from smaller clubs.

Insipid performance. 2 shots on target in the first half at home to Kilmarnock is rubbish. We are obsessed with possession and caution and there isn’t enough movement and dynamism in the final 3rd.

I called it! Big season ahead.

Davies for Sands for me I think. I thought Sands’ reluctance to pass left was really poor the other night, and surprising. Reminiscent of Katic. Tillman probably dropping into CM and Lowry playing in front against smaller teams, though I don’t think GVB will have the guts to drop the big players for Lowry.

Went for Tillman but due to lack of options. He created our only real chance and was the only one giving us a way to get forward, albeit it didn’t really work out for most of the game. I was interested to see he was also our furthest forward player from an average position graph. Could easily go for Scott Wright who did well with his time on the pitch. Would have gone with McLaughlin but I thought he could have done better with the first goal.

Celtic fans are a bunch of anti-semantic’s as well

I think the worst thing about it was the failure to make changes to formation, strategy and players. There was a failure to actually address what was happening. We were getting absolutely nowhere and perhaps that was because we had three defensive mids on the pitch. There was nowhere near enough movement.

Kaunus

Very good piece on Tillman vs Livingston. I think he looks like exactly the kind of player we need. Hopefully get another look at him tonight, looks a big coup for the club if the reported £5m fee is correct. https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/tactics/20593017.malik-tillman-helped-rangers-turn-tide-livingston-victory/

Sure, but we are one of the only clubs at our level (EL latter stages) who haven’t had that big cash influx that comes from a year or two in the champions league in recent times. Olympiacos, Slavia, Dinamo Zagreb, Midtjylland, Club Brugge, Celtic etc. have all had that in recent years. It will be hard to maintain our levels if our rivals are getting that every now and again and we aren’t. Not to mention the reputational benefit. It has been so long now.

No luck this time, that’s a very difficult draw.