Rangers Discussion Posts 5

02 Sep 2026 21:27:41
No team fears us now and rightly so. This is terrible. We look just as bad as when we came up. I cannot believe the money we have spent to have regressed this much 🤦🏻.

02 Sep 2026 22:40:24
I preferred them needing to park the bus because it meant they were threatened by us.

02 Sep 2026 22:41:23
Jking, see brand new teams they'll never work overnight, mate, maybe wait until at least a dozen league games, be in a far better position to judge than now.

02 Sep 2026 22:41:59
Only looking for wins in any fashion right now.

02 Sep 2026 22:50:52
I hope so, Star. Horrible watching us just now.

02 Sep 2026 20:51:39
How is it that every team we play look so comfortable on the ball compared to us. Falkirk very tidy in possession, Rangers chasing shadows. It really annoys me that we are so poor in possession.

02 Sep 2026 22:22:58
Falkirk had 122 touches in our third. We had 87 in theirs.

02 Sep 2026 22:47:35
But we had 31 in their box compared to them having 20, so most of those were in an area they couldn't harm us. 🤷 We also had 6 more forward passes than them, so were a lot of their touches in our final third backwards or sideways.

More successful passes as well, dn most importantly one more goal. Love a good stat. 😉 Were we great? No, but we won, and it has been a few seasons since we started winning scrappy close games. I see that as an improvement.

02 Sep 2026 22:48:47
We are a terrible watch, no creativity. One ball over the top and we're caught out, midfield non existent, don't control games, and we started taking it to the corner to waste time and take shanks off for a defender as if we are holding out for a result v Barca.

02 Sep 2026 20:33:03
We must be the worst team in the league at playing it out from the back - yet we still do it every single time,

Is there any stats that record how successful a team is at this?

02 Sep 2026 22:11:22
There are plenty of statistics we could look at, but the most important one is that we were 100% successful in winning tonight.

The data shows that playing out from the back, when done successfully, leads to higher sustained possession and better chance creation. However, as pressing in the modern game continues to improve, it also carries a greater risk of losing the ball in dangerous areas.

Historically, short passing sequences from the back create roughly twice as many shots and goals as direct long balls from the goalkeeper, which often result in 50/50 contested duels.



So, in short, playing short creates more and better chances for the team using that approach, although it can also give the opposition opportunities for direct goals if possession is lost.

For us, the key is to move the ball quicker and with more purpose, rather than resorting to long balls, which don't really suit the strengths of our players.

02 Sep 2026 22:38:33
There needs to be a happy medium. Passing about at the back almost cost us yet again, but the long balls were equally chronic.

02 Sep 2026 22:48:13
Kaiser, it is Rangers fans. Very rarely are they happy, never mind medium.

02 Sep 2026 22:53:34
Angus, when we played Motherwell last year (they were probably the best at it), you could see they had worked at patterns of how to move the ball from Gl through the thirds.

When we do it, it looks as though we are trying it for the 1st time and just waiting to see what unfolds.



Surely it can't be that difficult to see what teams execute this phase successfully and copy those patterns?

02 Sep 2026 19:04:05
Raskin starts. Brilliant. Hope that puts the Besiktas stuff to bed.

02 Sep 2026 18:55:18
Pandur, Nedeljkovic, Fernandez, Makhanya, Penrice, Raskin, Devlin, Minsu, Curtis, Gassama, Shankland Subs: Kelly, McCrorie, Godfrey, Chukwuani, Dragojevic, Yokota, McCausland, Miovski, Naderi

Confirmed team news no Neil in squad

02 Sep 2026 18:47:34
Raskin starts tonight - deal off.

02 Sep 2026 16:44:06
Aasgaard to Anderlecht for £6m?
Bit late to be losing players I think but good fee

Also seen that Rangers supposedly are trying to get Raskin to sign an extension wich would allow him to go to Besiktas but he doesn't want to extend it. Not good

02 Sep 2026 18:25:30
Don't think 6m is a good fee.