Rangers 1-3 Dundee Utd.

Last months I had the feeling of having seen the same games dozens of times. We have been abandoned to inertia and routine, exposed to adversity, with all the "figures" marked with the finger. It seems that the players do not play to transcend but to win the clemency. No orders from the ball but is lost the north in the own field and loses criteria in the opposite. No learn one's lesson the Light Blues to be corrected on the pitch and on the bench for more that rotates the squad. Defensively, we were a wall with cracks, desperate. Conceded spaces, neglecting the ball possession, which stroked just enough without taking maximum performance. The spherical was sometimes a stranger body for us. It has been converted into a sequence of moves that sometimes go well and others badly. Lack sense of team that has nothing to do with self-management or complacency.

There are teams that conceal their shortcomings and there are transparent teams. Most of the time, Rangers alternating both. In the final of the Ramsdens Cup, there was no dissembling. The Rangers made this clear in all the circumstances of the game, in all the lines, on the physical and metaphysical plane. They looked like a group of discouraged men who could never be higher than a rival itself petty.

Although this version of Rangers, you know is discontinuous and disconcerting,  almost all that had been lacking in Easter Road, desire for improvement, heart, push, implacable spirit returned to Ibrox for the first half. Still, Rangers charged with one of those problems that hinder any team: have problems in both areas, on the contrary has trouble scoring, in the own makes too many concessions.

To the first blow was to the canvas and that it had come out to all, occupying the scene, looking at the camera and leaving a secondary role to Dundee. Matches of this intensity, which proposed Rangers require a huge mind control, play with intelligence to know advantage of the options.

One of the merits of Rangers, erroneous lately in how to process and interpret the rhythms of the game, was to seek the spotlight and address the meeting without excuses. A courageous plan and not outlandish to that generated an initial start in which hushed the roar from the stands, own and others. At times could impose vigor when dropped the ball on the floor and progressed meters rhythmically.

In the previewing of the game, we knew we needed to speed circulation and dedication in the pass if we wanted to dismantle the dense scaffolding from visitors. The difficulty to fighting the strategy plays and defensive transitions reflect the indolence and volubility of Rangers. The defense seems to flammable material. We have one of these defenses with rigid waist and slow thinking. Dundee was prone to control, left to defend with the ball when could have it. Football can´t handle distractions. The first and the second goal was the nakedness of our defense. If some players disregarded, were indifferent to the ball, Mohsni, wanted to possess it so much that almost turned into an obsession with dramatic overtones for functioning of the team. The Franco-Tunisian, faithful to his bad evening, was made such trouble with the ball at different times that easily stolen, exposing the rest of the structure.

The Rangers looked startled, lost the ball, stayed in the desert without parasol, the best news for the rivals, which grew and moreover, came the second goal.

There are versatile players, able to occupy various positions in the field and perform various functions, appreciated by coaches, as Nicky Law. And there are other more specific player, dedicated to a single task, who cannot do something else, that the case of Peralta. The Honduran, with those choleric raptures, was a necessary player for this class of games, where friction, the strong leg could not be out of the argumentative proposal. His imperious voluntarism was one of his virtues for a team in need of protagonism. He did a good job in a place where MacKay-Steven usually wins.

There has not been way to fit Law, it wears for different areas of the field looking to be decisive. Law is a virtuous player what has had to step back to generate links, move the ball more and go thought several toll what wore down him in the final meters.

In the second half, we lacked nerve, freshness and agility to try to get a draw.

There are two arts should manage to win perfectly: the shot (no doubt) and the last pass. In both, Rangers was inconsistent. At the final of Ramsdens Cup, Daly was isolated from the collective game, which resulted in an insubstantial mechanic since our creators did not create anything. At Ibrox, the Irish came back to access the ball or enable header to a mate. I think we needed a different focus of attention for opposing defenses. While Shiels in their bouts of shrinkage, is annulled, is like he was not, runs indolent, hardly involved in the game.

It was only some sporadic action or stop ball, attended by Smith, which worry the arabs. It was fictional, a mirage, anything going against a Dundee that left passes the time. The visitors attempted to define the game against precipitation and growing impatience of us. The error of Simonsen ended up down our expectations.

The Rangers are going saying goodbye to the season badly, like nobody, resigned to powerlessness, overcome by "large" and smaller team, equal gives the tournament. Let to the legacy the statistics and fulfilling the main goal that is return to the top level, but to this we must add something: get up on the best conditions, sporting and institutional.