18-05-2015, 10:01
Like I said before my first ever game North of the border. What can I say?
I'm still trying to work out if Rangers were poor or Queen of the South were good. Now I know this is the second division of Scotish football but for some reason I was expecting Rangers to be better than what I saw, maybe it was just the nerves kicking in but time and again I saw misplaced passes that put Rangers under pressure when they simply didn't need the pass. It's safe to say I wasn't impressed.
Although fairly dominate in the first half a combination of trying to walk the ball in and taking a pass or touch too many was Rangers downfall and the QofS keeper had very little to test him and what did was mainly at him, likewise the only thing the Rangers keeper had to do was pick the ball out of the back of the net after Rangers backed off too much and allowed QofS to just stroll forward unchallenged.
Second half better from Rangers, and were it not for the QofS keeper it could've been 3 or 4, a couple of decent saves and one that just struck him as the header seemed destined for the back of the net but still they made hard work of it. Initially I thought the equaliser was offside but on the replay it seems to show he was level. After that It was going ho from both teams especially in the last 10minutes, Rangers were defending deeper and deeper and having to defend corner after corner, one that was headed off the line(good last ditch defending) but they had chances to kill the game off. 3minutes of added time and for some reason RFC are still trying to score instead of running the ball into the corner and kill time...they have to learn to kill the game rather than getting carried away by the crowd.
I'm still trying to work out if Rangers were poor or Queen of the South were good. Now I know this is the second division of Scotish football but for some reason I was expecting Rangers to be better than what I saw, maybe it was just the nerves kicking in but time and again I saw misplaced passes that put Rangers under pressure when they simply didn't need the pass. It's safe to say I wasn't impressed.
Although fairly dominate in the first half a combination of trying to walk the ball in and taking a pass or touch too many was Rangers downfall and the QofS keeper had very little to test him and what did was mainly at him, likewise the only thing the Rangers keeper had to do was pick the ball out of the back of the net after Rangers backed off too much and allowed QofS to just stroll forward unchallenged.
Second half better from Rangers, and were it not for the QofS keeper it could've been 3 or 4, a couple of decent saves and one that just struck him as the header seemed destined for the back of the net but still they made hard work of it. Initially I thought the equaliser was offside but on the replay it seems to show he was level. After that It was going ho from both teams especially in the last 10minutes, Rangers were defending deeper and deeper and having to defend corner after corner, one that was headed off the line(good last ditch defending) but they had chances to kill the game off. 3minutes of added time and for some reason RFC are still trying to score instead of running the ball into the corner and kill time...they have to learn to kill the game rather than getting carried away by the crowd.