Match Thread [FT] Rangers 2 - 1 USG (Rangers qualify for last 16)

[Rousseau 11,174]

46 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

Both look like a a 4-2-3-1 to me, both watching the games and looking at the diagrams.

4-2-3-1 has generally been the base formation, yes, but there's no doubt there has been a variety to our approaches in these games.

 

I think it was noticeably a 4-4-2 against Dundee Utd, though.

 

And last night it looked like Igamane and Bajrami were given roles to play. 

[Rousseau 11,174]

1 hour ago, Frankie said:

Also suggests we targeted their right side and, to be fair, that's where we got both goals from.

Cerny is often very high on that right side on some of these diagrams. I have therefore wondered what a similar player on the left would bring to our play. 

[ranger_syntax 4,562]

Four million Euros.

 

Sounds a bit better than an extra home match.

[Frankie 8,754]

https://x.com/RangersReview55/status/1885302535369421082

 

Nico Raskin averaged the most tackles and interceptions per 90 (7.72) of any player in the UEL group stage.

[Uilleam 6,090]

I can't vouch for this, but it came winging, comet-like, to me, through the ether, so it must have have some authenticity.

Surely?

Maybe?

 

Just under £9m so far in prize money alone. Not accounting for tv money and ticket sales. Not sure what we clear per home game after overheads, £1.5-2m something like that maybe, anyone have a more accurate number?

Europa League prize money

Winner : £10.95m
Runner-up : £5.9m
Semi-finalists : £3.54m
Quarter-finalists : £2.11m
Round of 16 : £1.47m
Reaching knockout round play-off : £250k
League-phase wins : £379k
League-phase draws : £126k
League-phase defeats : £0

How much have Rangers banked so far?

Taking the above numbers into account, Rangers have already boosted their transfer kitty courtesy of this year's revamped competition. Gers got £3.64m just from qualifying and topped up their prize money with performance-related bonuses. Wins over Malmo, FCSB, Nice and USG swelled the coffers by around £1.5m, with draws against Olympiacos and Tottenham adding another £252k to the pot - which totalled £1.768m.

Malmo 0-2 Rangers (£379k)
Rangers 1-4 Lyon (£0)
Rangers 4-0 FCSB (£379k)
Olympiacos 1-1 Rangers (£126k)
Nice 1-4 Rangers (£379k)
Rangers 1-1 Tottenham (£126k)
Manchester United 2-1 Rangers (£0)
Rangers 2-1 USG (£379k)
Total: £1.768m

How much has Rangers league position earned them?

Rangers will also be due another chunky sum from UEFA for their final finishing position of eighth. Each position in the table is worth £63.4k, meaning the club that finishes 36th will earn that figure with an additional £63.4k added for every position higher - and the high-flying Gers have therefore netted a tasty £1.775m

For making it automatically into the last 16 Rangers know that they will earn at least an additional £1.47m as well as £252,800 add-on for being in the top, meaning that the league stage campaign in total has earned the Ibrox club more than £5m in bonus money. On top of the £3.64m earned just for making it into the main competition. All of that adds up to a grand total of £8.905m - without including ticket sales from four home matches, and for what promises to be a sell-out crowd for the last 16 match regardless of who the opponents are.

[Uilleam 6,090]

From The Guardian:

 

 Vaclav Cerny says Rangers feel at home in Europe after qualifying for the last 16 of the Europa League with a 2-1 win over Union Saint-Gilloise last night.

Rangers, whose erratic domestic form this season has all-but handed the title to their Old Firm rivals Celtic, held on for the win that took them to eighth place – avoiding the playoffs.

Philippe Clement’s side were joined in the last 16 by earlier opponents Lyon, Olympiacos, Manchester United and Tottenham and, asked if European football suited Rangers, Cerny, on loan from Wolfsburg, said:

Yeah, almost every game we’ve played has been a good game. I don’t think we have had a bad game in Europe this season. We were just well prepared for every single game. It’s a big one. That’s what we wanted before it all started. We had some tough opponents, and it’s a very, very good achievement to go into the top eight.

If you see that many of the opponents we played finished in the top eight as well, it is a good sign and we should be confident to go through. There are more eyes on those games, obviously, but the mindset is to do this every game. But I think it’s a good thing also that we can measure [up] with such an opponent.

[lenny3k 734]

35 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

I don’t think we have had a bad game in Europe this season

[Sutton_blows_goats 5,817]

The prize money talk is nice to see but until we see the accounts and how much we have to pay-out for costs and staff bonuses etc its not a great indicator of the real value add.

[Uilleam 6,090]

14 minutes ago, lenny3k said:

Czech mate, Lenny

[der Berliner 3,947]

5 mins of highlights from last night