“We eat our words” – did we get Rangers star wrong?

We here at Ibrox Noise have been extremely critical of Morelos, no one more than myself. His lack of being able to bury the ball in the net when the chance was so clear was frustrating beyond words.  His short fuse was also leaving him open to all sorts of criticism and he was playing into the hands of those who played on it. At one point I was convinced we should sell him. Get him out the door and take whatever we could get for him; ‘20p and a packet of Wotsits’ I maintained was a good deal.

But now, good readers, I eat my words. While he’s still not perfect, I am beginning to appreciate young Morelos. His performance and impact yesterday said a lot about the lad. We saw Kyle Lafferty starting and thought fair enough. We have a pretty full schedule just now and even we understand changing it up to keep the legs fresh and minds sharp.

The Northern Irish international left a lot to be desired. Now this isn’t a piece on criticising Lafferty (he has enough going on off of the field and we’ll discuss him in another article), it’s about Morelos. He’s managing to keep his head as cool as he possibly can. Albeit that booking. He still managed to hit the net for himself and gave a fine assist to Scott Arfield.

The team freshened up when he came on. They fought together and dug together as a team. Not something I hugely noticed when Morelos was on the bench.

I still maintain that he can do better overall but reckon it’s about time ourselves and his critics cut him a whole lot more slack.