Saturday at Ibrox, there were different kinds
of feeling, a strong aura of pride, with all of ingredients: The L118 artillery
gun, heat, color, noise, and song, scream. Since I have use of reason, Ibrox
usually expect events such as the Poppy day, when the first frosts of autumn,
with a liturgical representations, ambiences, more admirable as an institution
that any other the practice of football. The honor the people who gave their
lives for that nation. Rangers always had its own identity characteristics,
where are reflected the combination of the best Scottish and British
traditions. Lest We Forget.
Rangers are no more vulgarized by the more
conventional adversaries. Before imposed on the scoreboard, McCoist´s team had
to play one of those intense, crashes, closed, more aerial game and a referee
predisposed to interrupt the game and not to give continuity, regardless of the
side. Rangers was a team bluntly, less patient (one pharmacy in Glasgow had
exhausted the stocks of anxiolytics), more intermittent at first, and with the
turbo a mile a minute in the second half. A piece of braided football
after the sequences that produced the game was endless waterfalls of long
balls. Some of the long balls, well addressed sought a direct attack, effective
in the opponent´s error, others did Boyd back off, by the head, but not always
find a partner to give continuity to the game.
In the symptomatic, Rangers begin to take a
liking for the ball. Surprisingly, there was returns and worked the mechanism
of manual to combat the offensive transition of Falkirk. There was a
strengthening in the spirit of solidarity. The surprise was to see how The
Light Blues won the actions divided and the second plays, example of
industriousness now. Until a few months ago the team had all their assets ahead
and neglecting the rearguard, if we want win against celtic, one of the prerogative
is to contain effectively. Everyone did an excellent job in the return, to
cover the spaces. The team bitten, robbed and planted himself fast in the
opposite area. Although Boyd stays milned-up, without access to the ball.
Rangers pressed up with many people, especially when found on clearance of
McGregor their offensive weapon (neither good nor bad).
Falkirk closed more spaces, pressed on our
receivers, led Rangers to the uncomfortable place. At that transit of the game,
the ball was long in the air, without orientation, Simmo undertake bullying to
the ball for long periods. Striking again and again, hurriedly. Rangers need to
take better care of the ball. No immediately seek the orientation change, do
not rush. Have to offer, supporting the teammate, and make the rival stay
running behind the ball for the maximum amount of time as happened at times in
the two games with Dumbarton or Saint Johnstone.
At times, the contribution of Black is ethereal
and vaporous, difficult for him than usual massaging the ball, can recover it
but is poor in delivery. This is something I see in the latest series of games.
Is it necessary to be all the time nyaff? Is it necessary to be on all the
squabbles? Rangers lacks on footballers for crash, Law is the two areas and
accompanies on defense cooperation but not the kind of player. Often times, any
errors penalizes, Law warns that and made of switch when his rivals wanted to
leave of the cave with the ball.
Rangers wanted, since the start of the
campaign, a player who gave the final pass in midfield, but found much more.
That kid with quiet air bucolic, intuitive and ready, did something seemingly
simple: play. Playing short the ball, securing the possession. Touch to for it
back. Touching and moving. Yours-mine. There is nothing worse for the rivals to
have to go and back and forth up and down the field. Likely lad, McLeod not
only supports the weight of attacking it back to work. With the incipient youth
appear throughout the field to build game and fix their teammates.
The presence of Law (versatile like no other,
treading the two areas) facilitates the sophisticated elaborations of Lewis and
trenching for Wallace, with unknown symphonies of touches on a team not always
prone to pauses. McLeod is of those players of a tile, which breaks waists a
little room of the grass and invents the pass nobody intuits.
Miller, a veteran in his second youth, moved
easily from different parts of the attack, and behind the back of the
opponent´s defense, avoiding fixate his mark, generating more holes for the
arrival of players of the second line as Law or Wallace (blatantly positioned
as winger more than lateral, is always a nightmare for rivals) ¿How many lung
is Wallace? Give it the berries, have that facility that we saw in his last
goal against Dumbarton. Miller not only knows how to play for others, but also
has the ability to rectify himself frantically.
McGregor is transformed into the pattern of
defense, solid in the marking, unalterable, responds well to nullify the
opponent´s moves. In the first half, he pressed, forcing the rival who finished
getting rid of the ball. Intuitive and confident in every action, left Loy completely
disarmed every time he was got in the way. McGregor arrived at Ibrox in silence
(I must admit that when I heard his name, I was surprised), after some errors
in one of the pre-season friendly in America, was in the substitutes bench. For
the disoriented, who only see the errors of McCoist, this was a wise sign, long
term sign.
We stir-up the Bairns area, with an unceasing
siege. The ball went from one side to the other in search of a fisherman in
troubled waters. More and more confident of his game, Nicky Law embodies both
the mutation of Rangers as his versatility, not only bring closer the area as
the first goal on Saturday, but also generate spaces and advanced and appear
advanced positions to break and surprise as midweek against Cowdenbeath (1-0). Law
came forward more the pitch and settled in the most populated area of Falkirk.
Cold always, loaded humble with buckets of water when it is burned the ranch of
the team.
And it appeared the explosive
cyclogenesis of goals, sudden and abrupt. A demolition exercise. With different
interpreters, but keeping the same role. McLeod, the second, Miller, the third,
Clark the fourth. And Falkirk? Dazed by the artillery.
Scottish, Slang or words not too known:
Geet: A contemptible and/or
tedious person.
Likely lad: an alert, smart
and/or cheeky youth. A colloquial working class phrase used particularly in the
North of England to describe a young man who shows promise or
self-confidence.
Milned-up: Incarcerated.
The term, from the jargon of prisoners, now often refers to temporary
imprisonment in, e.g., an observation cell.
Give it the berries: to act
energetically, increase power and/or speed. The phrase was used by presenters
on the TV car program Top Gear in 2005.
Nyaff: An irritating or obnoxious
person. The term is supposed to be echoic in origin, and is based on the
irritating sound of a dog or a small child.
