It’s hard to analyse yesterday’s win over Dundee without accepting that the display from the away side, albeit successful enough to take the three points, was absolutely drivel.
Only Leon Balogun and John Lundstram stood out, in each case having outright excellent matches, and while Alfredo Morelos and Joe Aribo secured the winning goal between the pair of them, the overall performances were abysmally abject.
Now, we’re top of the table, and no one can catch us if we keep winning, so we’re not actively seeking to be negative about 3 points.
But the worrying trend is that save the occasional brighter performance this season (Celtic, Livi in the cup) the football from Stevie G’s side has been simply getting worse and worse each fixture.
Now, it’s crucial to point out the quality of fare is irrelevant when you win, and you know what? That’s dead true.
We’d rather win the league ugly than come second with some ‘nice football’.
However, Rangers are quite simply riding their luck at the moment, luck Celtic aren’t getting and they’re playing not all that much worse than Rangers are.
At some point that luck will swing and they’ll get the benefits.
Which is why Rangers must take it into their own hands at some point in the near future to produce effective and decent football, as they did last season, and not rely either on luck or results elsewhere, both of which have come into play in the last two weeks.
That fortune won’t last forever, and Stevie has to find a way to get his men playing some solid football in there so that wins are earned by graft and quality, and not with a spot of chance.
It’s winning football for now, and we are some distance ahead of our Old Firm rivals, but the sooner Rangers fans are less stressed during matches and relieved at the end the better.
I will say what everyone is thinking, Tav and Goldson have to be dropped, couldn’t care less both are SG’s favourites, its not if but when these 2 cowboys cost us more points, they need binned, empty shirts since the beginning of the new season
I’m very concerned the SGs favouritism will as other contributors have said cost us the league if he doesn’t watch. It was a little less tinkering against Dundee. But it was still changing the team again. . Morelos looks disinterested and unclear of his position when Roofe is in the team . We miss Kent’s quality. Continual back four changes are a contradiction to how we won 55. It must get better or the others will eventually take advantage of our poor performances.
Morelos IS disinterested and should be dropped and SOLD. Get Roofe through the middle or give Sakala his chance. Actually continual back four changes were a feature of 55. It was only after the cup defeat to St Mirren that we stopped tinkering with the starting 11 so much.
We are riding our luck and it’s only a matter of time before we come unstuck. We need something to change and it’s difficult to see where it’s going to come from. Maybe guys like Sakala, Bacuna and an improving Lundstram can provide a spark. Or maybe a returning and revitalised Kent next month. Or Arfield. If not we’ll just have to hope that some of Tavernier, Goldson, Barisic, Davis, Kamara and Morelos can rediscover their best form. There are so many different ways it can all spark back to life and I think it will. To look on the positive side if we can play this badly and stay top of the league then it’s looking bright if we can bounce back to top form.
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