Russell Martin

[Midfield_General]

Rangers living very dangerously in the second leg in Greece. Backs to the wall stuff and now been caught in possession twice in their own box only for the striker to miss a sitter. 

Scottish commentators tearing their hair out over the risks they are taking.

But still 2-0 up on aggregate. 

[coalman]

38 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Rangers living very dangerously in the second leg in Greece. Backs to the wall stuff and now been caught in possession twice in their own box only for the striker to miss a sitter. 

Scottish commentators tearing their hair out over the risks they are taking.

But still 2-0 up on aggregate. 

Same as the first half last week. Expecting the same outcome. Martin is a natural at European football luring the Greeks in before delivering the hammer blow. Textbook.

[Midfield_General]

Pana get the ball in the net... VAR check for offside...

Goal given. 1-0 Pana. 2-1 Rangers on aggregate. 

Ex-Saint Djuricic the goalscorer

Edited 19 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Colinjb]

Would assume Ranger's fitness hasn't yet been destroyed by Martin's training methods, therefore they should hold on.

[the wedge]

It's been like holding a mirror up to our defence from last season. Almost cathartic in its predictability. Interestingly Max Aarons has been dominated defensively so pleased we never got hold of him..!

[Midfield_General]

4 minutes ago, the wedge said:

It's been like holding a mirror up to our defence from last season. Almost cathartic in its predictability. Interestingly Max Aarons has been dominated defensively so pleased we never got hold of him..!

Yeah he's getting rinsed playing on the left. 

Ooooh should have been 2-2. Should have equalised. 

Edit: And Rangers score. 1-1 🤣

Edited 19 hours ago by Midfield_General

[coalman]

There's the Martin-stroke. Game changing sub and panic over. Any time now the meltdown and Pana down to ten.

Edited 19 hours ago by coalman

[Colinjb]

That Panathinaikos goalscorer looks familiar.

[Midfield_General]

FT. 1-1 on the night, Rangers go through 3-1 on aggregate. 

Seriously rode their luck as they got carved open multiple times in both legs, but Pana missed a hatful of chances, Butland made some massive saves and Rangers were absolutely clinical when they got sight of goal.

They gave up 36 shots on goal across both games though and will rarely get away with only conceding 1 over 180 minutes if they defend like that. 

Gassama scored off the bench in both games and looks like an excellent signing at £2.2m. 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Midfield_General

[Dusic]

Good win in a difficult tie. Rangers recruitment certainly looks better than previous years. Think they will have a good season under RM.

[SaintStinger]

26 minutes ago, Colinjb said:

That Panathinaikos goalscorer looks familiar.

Ah yes Duricic. One of the loans Koeman bought, along with Eljero Elia that I thought were a bit of a disappointment in the end. Pretty much like most signings these days.

[Suhari]

3 minutes ago, SaintStinger said:

Ah yes Duricic. One of the loans Koeman bought, along with Eljero Elia that I thought were a bit of a disappointment in the end. Pretty much like most signings these days.

Would those two get a start for us now?

[SNSUN]

1 minute ago, Suhari said:

Would those two get a start for us now?

Djuricic maybe but Elia is 38 and retired 3 years ago. 😜

[RedArmy]

10 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Think they will have a good season under RM.

Yeah probably top 2, wouldn’t you say? 
 

 

[trousers]

16 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Good win in a difficult tie. Rangers recruitment certainly looks better than previous years. Think they will have a good season under RM.

What constitutes a good season for Rangers?

P.s. sounds like they made hard work of beating a "bang average" team...?

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[Harry_SFC]

13 minutes ago, Dusic said:

Good win in a difficult tie. Rangers recruitment certainly looks better than previous years. Think they will have a good season under RM.

In reality the only way it'll be a good season is for them to win the league. I can't see them beating Celtic enough times to be able to do that. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

A good season will be to run Celtic closer, pick up a cup and to get pennies from a Euro competition.

They desperately need the European revenue, while their fans demand a contest at least for the title. Even if they don't win it this season, some improvement has to be seen.

[Matthew Le God]

30 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

In reality the only way it'll be a good season is for them to win the league. I can't see them beating Celtic enough times to be able to do that. 

I think it would still be considered a good (but not great) season if they closed the currently considerable gap between the two clubs even if they were still 2nd.

[Give it to Ron]

14 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

I think it would still be considered a good (but not great) season if they closed the currently considerable gap between the two clubs even if they were still 2nd.

Not according to my Rangers mates - it’s winning those games is all that counts to them. If they lose those but narrow gap they won’t be happy.

[StrangelyBrown]

1 hour ago, RedArmy said:

Yeah probably top 2, wouldn’t you say? 
 

 

3rd in a 2 horse race seems more realistic for Russ