It seemed a tough game for Rangers, not so much
for the rival, but by circumstances. After (and even before) the defeat against
Hibernian, warning light were flashing. Rangers did not move away an inch of
what are these days, atrophied with the ball, clunky, without two passes
worthwhile. The concern is that Rangers lacking in ideas, by more than the
Homeric plays of McLeod go down the catarrh. It is not something new, Rangers must
leave behind the coffin-dodger position and need more tactical discipline,
positional play, the details that help to reduce risks and especially work the
strategy. The games are long, require hard work.
Rangers need that characteristic that makes a
difference in football today, that characteristic that does numb the nerves and
choose the best solutions; by scarce they are, to prevent frontal damage and
collateral. But Rangers is a startled team. The danger is that Rangers are in a
ho-hum approach, a tedious, disinterested game and loses interest in a portion
of their fans, those who go to Ibrox and watch it outside Scotland.
Again. We began to fail in contention because
actually lack it, recidivists the losses of the ball, erratic in the withdraw.
At times, the ball burning for us and the field is smaller. Suddenly the round,
noble thing, which usually responds to the foot of the players, has its own
life and instead of the players to play with it, the ball plays with them, sick
of being send from one place to another, without accommodation booked, nor foot
in to sleep. I understood that possession should always be interpreted as the
best sign of the health of a football team.
Fitbaw has those things. Sometimes the simplest
encounter becomes the most unpleasant. The bad thing is contagious. Livingston
understood that had to be play face to face. Without subterfuge. Livi knew
where had to adjust the pegs, pressing when Law received the ball from the
defense. Without the possibility of playing with his back to the rivals had
reassigned the ball to the defense. Lack of ideas to return the ball back to
the Englishman, which required lost it and fouled. Not only we lost the
position of the ball but also the home side took a free kick. This review is
not against Law, which did not have a second chance to pass, and then neither
had companions willing to receive the ball.
How playing leave from our goal? Scene of the
first half, Rangers often start with long ball from keeper Simonsen, if we do
not lose the ball (which is quite common in this kind of moves), the ball
returns to our area, take it Zailukas, and instead of see a partner better
located, chooses to throw it into the air, uncertain destiny. If we can’t
process this type of play, making the ball ours, we can’t break the rival. The
defense does not have to get tangled at the start and raises his head to look
forward to reading the unmarked on the sides. That requires players with the
ability to touch and the transition between lines, players moving, looking for
spaces.
From a time for this part, there was no way to
filter a pass, to deepen or unbalance, even pull the thread of the game on
Rangers. Although the list of midfielder seemed to indicate otherwise, not
flowing football, awkward in the development, delivered to the fickle attempt
to press up, to the dizzying transitions. Fraser was the turning point, ballsy,
threw the ball forward, gaining in speed but in that imagination was exhausted.
The stillness of the game was the best news for Livingston.
Black, fixed in good and in bad times, is
capable of serving the measured center with any profile (you see again the start
of the goal of Lewis) and middle-distance shot. Need to mix it with defensive
help from the side or an inward movement to create the space in order to be
exploited at depth.
The loneliness of Boyd in attack. He tried
everything, even back to receive the ball but could only finish rarely lead.
Rangers need to find ways to get Kris and failed for much of the game.
Historically, and even today, Boyd is an essential player for Rangers. Even
with the drought of goals. The man is a thinker in that area of the field on
the there is no time for anything, and even lees to think. We needed to open
the field and generate more centers from the sides, which did not happen on
Saturday. At Ibrox against Hibs, the original idea with the inclusion of Smith
and Wallace was a priori interesting.
Lewis McLeod, greezy, away from the
conventional stigma of contemporary from Rangers. The lymphatic nature makes
him a footballer of low pulsation, sometimes seems
to hold it down. The young is not a gladiator, but gradually discovers when
cover at least your area as left midfielder and catch on the waiting room of
the goal. The pirouette was as the best Van Basten in the 90s, a goal of anthology for a game that did not deserve it (0-1)
Clark was a fierce, a blazing comet for the
home defense, that neither saw him the license plate. Former striker of Queen
of the South has ever expanding repertoire, which is already much: fly, not
shoots firing blank ammunition and assists. Livingston was convulsed outwardly,
with a high pressure suffocating him.
Lets us return for a moment to the game against
Hibs. McCoist teams are characterized by play forward positions, but being
badly standing whenever an opponent decides to attack. We tend to be penalizes
in the rear, not only in defense but also in midfield, where Craig moved at
will, without contingencies. Freed from what could have been a pain in the neck
from our midfielders, he connected easily with the strikers. A replica, a copy
of the game recently played for the Cup.
Throughout the season I wrote,
Rangers are always exposed to a disgust or more because we do not take the
precautions in better position defensively when it has no the ball, we just
stand back and accompany the progress of the opponent. Another point is the lack of concentration,
how many teams in the world receive a goal where the rival keeper allows its
teammate and we were exposed? Then I do not understand why Peralta from the
beginning and not Fraser? It is obvious that there are two players with
different game features, Fraser is a more complete player, in the groove,
Peralta much is lost in the side and just strip centers into the hands of rival
goalkeeper, sounds violent but I wrote on one side of paper the amount centers
and few were effective. Peralta is limp-dick regarding Fraser.
Scottish, Slang or
words not too known
Ho-hum: Dull, tedious, of mediocre quality
or little interest.
Coffin-dodger: An elderly person. A sometimes
humorous pejorative.
Clunky: Lacking grace in movement or
posture.
Ballsy: Courageous, Spirited. A vulgar
alternative to gutsy.
Greezy: Excellent: The vogue term is used
by UK adolescents and may be a blend of great and easy.
Hold it
down: to act in a
commendably, restrained manner, to "stay cool".
Fierce: Excellent, stylish. A term used by
young street-gang members in London since around 2000.
In the
groove: Proceeding
smoothly, working well. In harmony with the others or with one´s surroundings.
Limp-dick: (someone who is) weak,
ineffectual, irresolute.
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