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Motherwell v Rangers League Cup Semi final Nov 2/3


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On 11/4/2024 at 10:36 AM, Stuwell2 said:

Not going to bother reading all the comments from yesterday as I’ve no doubt most will be along the same lines as my view which is 

Given our injuries it was probably the correct line up. 
Given how poor Rangers have been sitting back was the wrong tactics. Was expecting us to try and run at their defence especially Tavenier, not punt long balls that the two central defenders lapped up leaving our forwards useless - totally pissed off. 
As usual with us when  we are involved in big games our youth and inexperienced squad don’t handle it well. 
Substitutions - WTF?

It will be anathema to most Motherwell supporters to give any praise to Rangers but I thought Rangers were actually pretty good off the ball.

Their press was good and they won every aerial duel.  

They made it difficult to get any flow going and they took Miller out the game.

On the ball they are still way below where you'd expect a team with Rangers resources to be but the ugly side of the game they did well.

However a lot of Motherwell fans simply won't accept that the oppositions performance had something to do with our performance.

 

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7 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

It will be anathema to most Motherwell supporters to give any praise to Rangers but I thought Rangers were actually pretty good off the ball.

Their press was good and they won every aerial duel.  

They made it difficult to get any flow going and they took Miller out the game.

On the ball they are still way below where you'd expect a team with Rangers resources to be but the ugly side of the game they did well.

However a lot of Motherwell fans simply won't accept that the oppositions performance had something to do with our performance.

 

I totally agree. I do think that's what is so frustrating about it; they were absolutely there for the taking and we stuck to a rigid counter-attacking style with a really ineffectual press on their defenders.

They definitely went up a gear in the second half. They took Miller out the game completely by sticking Barron on him at all times and doubling up when he was on the ball. That completely nullified our game plan because we had no other creative outlet, particularly after Kettlewell's mind-boggling double sub.

 

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4 hours ago, robsterwood said:

Budgets matter significantly. A higher ranked and higher budget generally wins statistics show it. One of Thier players was on bench and cost 6 mil. We rely on free transfers. Loans and budget buys. Speculate rather than buy known quality that they can afford. I do however think we could have got closer to them. Technique showed on the day also. 

Yeah teams budget is an important point in the big picture. But its not as black and white as that, and had we given a good account of ourselves, I'd accept that point.

But we didn't play in a way that made us test rangers as best we could to make them earn that game. That is our failing in my opinion, and we shouldn't use rangers' budget as an excuse for our failings, otherwise we we are beaten before a ball is kicked.

I can totally respect a different view of the game, but that is how I see it. As i said, other recent finals/ semis I've seen us lose out on (thinking of the 2 celtic games in 17/18 as the freshest in mind), I have left the stadium with a totally different feeling of disappointment... not with the feeling that we fell short tactically.
 

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