match thread (image) [FT] Spartak 4 - 3 Rangers (Eremenko o.g. 5; Candeias 27; Middleton 42)

[BlackSocksRedTops 3,752]

Can't believe those 2 goals in the 2nd half. Went for a quick whizz at 3-2 and came back and it was 3-4. Gutted

[alexscottislegend 2,325]

On a positive note I think we can beat Rapid away.

[les186 271]

1 minute ago, ian1964 said:

Some fans don't deserve a good team

Ian, if you'd watched it I think you would have found some words of criticism for our team,

[ranger_syntax 4,323]

3 minutes ago, Frankie said:

A big opportunity missed there.

Two in a row.

[RANGERRAB 3,674]

1 minute ago, ian1964 said:

Some fans don't deserve a good team

For the third season in a row a team was thrown together at the start of the season.

The first two bombed. This one got to the EL group stages.

if that isn’t progress what is ? And this team will get better with additions over the next few seasons

[buster. 5,196]

3 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

For the third season in a row a team was thrown together at the start of the season.

The first two bombed. This one got to the EL group stages.

if that isn’t progress what is ? And this team will get better with additions over the next few seasons

Well said Rab !

 

#Patience&Realism

 

Edited November 8, 2018 by buster.

[BlackSocksRedTops 3,752]

3 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

On a positive note I think we can beat Rapid away.

Rapid in Vienna will be a harder game IMO. Spartak were poor at the back and we also gifted them goals tonight. 

[der Berliner 3,744]

Game of emotions and hard to judge. Could have ended 6-6 for all the narrow misses, saves and shots off the metal.

 

Bar some bad touch by Goldson (saved for today, one might say) and better man-marking by Tav, our defense was rather solid. Ejaria needs to be flogged if he ever tries dancing his way out of trouble around our own area again (just ahed of their equalizer). Even their last goal came off a deflection. So fortune was wily today.

 

One might cite Morelos off-side goal, which would probably have killed them.

 

One may point at a ref again - handing out valid yellows in the first half, but then did not following them up with 2 or 3 professional foul - yellows in the second. But giving Morelos the yellow for not even really complaing about the foul (that never was) which he "conceeded".

 

At the end of the day, all it shows that this team out there is very well able to rub shoulders with millionaires like Spartak (2 or 3 of them alone cost what we spent on our entire squad) or Villareal. That should be the predominant feeling, IMHO ... and what a step forward at that.

 

Middleton should get that left-side slot. Tremendous job today! 

[Whosthedado 1,685]

That's as poor as I have seen from us defensively for a long long time. We were unlucky not to go in 4-2 up but to then throw it all away is criminal. The chance at the end that somehow didnt go in or fall to one of our players summed up the night. As gutted as I have felt for a long time tonight

[DMAA 3,658]

It’s easy to forgot that their 4th goal was pure luck. On another night it would have deflected wide and how different the game could have been.