What went wrong at Ibrox tonight?


We’re not going to say too much in this piece – we’ve been heavily critical of Steven Gerrard and some of the players when things have gone wrong, and while we can question some of tonight’s selections, we have to praise Gerrard’s balanced, fair, honest and candid post-match reaction.

No defence this time of Alfredo Morelos, who let his club down again. Disappointment that his players didn’t deliver on the gameplan he’d set out. Concession that discipline is a real problem with this team, and it’s something we discussed here on the site only a day or two ago. And absolutely no complaints about the result.

We can debate all day whether Gerrard picked the right team – but whatever we think, Aberdeen have just won for the second time at Ibrox in 30 visits, having for the first time in six away matches managed to keep a clean sheet.

Derek McInnes has outfoxed Gerrard two matches in a row now, in more or less the same way each time – meaning either Gerrard is correct that his players didn’t follow his orders, or that his orders were wrong in the first place.

Either way, a bad night, tempered slightly by Celtic also slipping up to Motherwell.

It’s a slight get out of jail card, and we can’t remember the last time Kilmarnock ever topped the table.

So… make of tonight what you will, and feel free to in the comments, but we’ll sleep on it.

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