How THIS Rangers homework by Gerrard paid off…

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How THIS Rangers homework by Gerrard paid off…


Steven Gerrard has achieved much in a short space of time at Ibrox. Livi debacle aside, his Rangers team is looking in every sense worthy of the shirt and name right now, and much of that is down to hard work, practise, and players willing to buy into the ideas.

However, tactics cannot be ignored either, and while we’ve discussed Rangers’ smooth 4-3-3 a lot this season, something stood out about yesterday’s win over Hearts;

That opening goal.

Straight out of the training ground, this moment was the pinnacle of Steven Gerrard’s Rangers reign so far, and the first sure evidence of the man’s attention to detail and clear focus on opponents.

Having watched countless videos of Hearts defending set pieces, Gerrard had some ideas about how Rangers could exploit it – this was a manager truly doing his homework, and being well aware of how slow Hearts Uche Ikpeazu and others could be – Rangers’ attackers held the high line rather than trying to beat it, and when the offside trap failed, as Gerrard had envisaged, three Rangers players were happily there to finish the job.

Levein, to his candour, didn’t moan about refereeing decisions, or anything ‘unfair’ – indeed, this was one of the few times a losing opponent has just plain admitted his side wasn’t good enough on the day and were essentially blown away.

But equally his concession one player didn’t shift quickly enough was exactly the move Gerrard was hoping for.

It all helped towards a brilliant day for Rangers, and yet more spot-on management from Steven Gerrard whose stock as a coach is rising match by match.

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  1. I couldn’t stop laughing when it happened. It’s unreal that a professional team just stopped playing. And credit to morales. In the past he’d have took a snap shot but now he looks up and Made a great pass

    And levin can’t complain about the ref. He should have had less players on he pitch than what he was left with. There striker dived twice and still didn’t get booked.. I’m sure I counted that he was on 7 fouls and two dives yet warrel gets booked for 3 fouls thanks to naisthmith

  2. It was beautiful to Watch 😍🔴⚪⭕

    It has blown a big Hole in their
    'Title Challenge' 😂

    Also I Hope that Wee Rat Naismith was Suffering as we were taking them Apart! 💪

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