When Rangers supporters think they can’t get any worse with Ibrox outfits this season, it can.
On Thursday night, Russell Martin’s Garth was beaten 2-1 in a Europa League clash at Liebenower Stadium.
Austrian champion Sturm Graz scored twice in the first half. Both were left with Ally McCoist losing his words to commentary, and Djeidi Gassama slammed one house shortly after halftime, but the equalizer wasn’t approaching.
The Light Blues, who lost 1-0 at home to Genk last Thursday, started the group stage of the UEFA Cup or Europa League in a back-to-back defeat for the first time, but in fact, Martin’s team lost five consecutive European equipment, conceded 14 goals and scored only three.
Given that he only won five matches in all competitions, he lost six, and the supporters wanted a manager a few weeks ago, but did he start the Rangers summer flop and start a bagged offense on its own?
Rangers’ continued defensive issues
If the credits are due, this fact comes from Rory Hamilton during his commentary on TNT Sports.
The last clean sheet from the Rangers’ home, facing Ross County in Dingwall on December 8th 299 days ago, was a 22-game winning streak in all competitions, comparable to the club record in 1897 when Queen Victoria was still on the throne.
Failure to maintain a shutout against Falkirk on Sunday will break that 128-year-old record.
Goalkeeper Jack Butland was suddenly dropped by interim manager Barry Ferguson last season, and while it may be thought that England International should shut out Tomi Horvatt’s opener, he has been Martin’s uncontroversial number one since his appointment.
To be fair, he has a completely confused defense in front of him. While I’m wondering if it’s worth landing on this wreck by signing Derek Cornelius on Deadline Day, 19-year-old Jaden Megoma, who was obsessed with halftime in Austria, hasn’t enjoyed his time in Glasgow so far.
Participating in this Europa League campaign in matches against Brann, Roma, Braga, Ferencváros, Ludogorets Razgrad and Porto will keep the Rangers coming in last season and crashing in the league phase.
However, Martin has problems on the other side of the park, making him confused as to why he chose the centre forward he did.
The Rangers striker is not yet impressed
When the 49ers company completed the acquisition of Rangers in the summer, they pledged to invest around £20 million in the club, but was it was wasted by Youssef Chermiti?
になったんです。 English: The first thing you can do is to find the best one to do.
Portugal’s Under-21 International will join the club from Everton on the deadline with a reported £8 million fee, potentially rising to £10 million on add-ons.
The previous transfer record for GERS after the liquidation was £7.5 million paid to Liverpool, securing Liverpool’s signature, making it the second most at Tore André Flo in 2000 to £1.2 million.
The 21-year-old led the Graz line, as he did for a visit to GUNK a week ago, but the table below wasn’t as touching as the documents.
Chermiti Stats vs Sturm Graz | ||
|---|---|---|
statistics | Cermiti | Match ranks |
Target shot | 3 | Second |
Impressing woodworking | 1 | First |
xg | 0.49 | Third |
The duel was fought | 11 | No. 5 |
The duel won | 5 | 10 days |
touch | twenty four | No. 22 |
Sofa score rating | 6 | No. 32 |
Statistics via Sofascore | ||
As the table points out, despite the three shots being targeted, Cermity didn’t get these from particularly good positions. So his expected target figure was 0.49, just 0.12, an average of 0.12 per shot.
He also lost ownership eight times, won under 50% of the duel and registered 24 touches. That’s less than goalkeeper Jack Butland (31), and six less than Oliver Ant-Man, who was hooked at halftime.
In the commentary on TNT Sport, McCoist outlines his reservations on the signature and says that Chermiti is hoping to score 200 or 300 goals for the Ranger, if he would justify the Sky High Price tag, he probably should.
Well, first and foremost, only one goal is the start!
He didn’t score one goal in his two seasons at Everton, but he only made 24 appearances and totaled 295 in Toffee. In other words, his final senior goal was on May 7, 2023 with Pasos de Ferreira.
That same day, Todd Cantwell scored the only goal as Michael Beal’s Rangers defeated Barry Robson’s Aberdeen 1-0 at Ibrox, and Ange Post Ecogle’s Celtic Rubber stamped Tynecastle’s title at the same time. Many rounds have changed!
You sat on the bench of Bojang Mioffski when you had a proven reliable scorer. He was introduced at halftime when it was already too late.