Rangers grafted out a pretty rank-rotten performance but earned an invaluably timothy-crushing 3-points.
Ibrox Noise takes you through our ratings for a forgettable afternoon in Govan:
McGregor:
One bright save was all he had to do all match. Might as well have had no goalie for all the work he needed to do, but was beaten all ends up late on by Clark for what could have been a crushing equaliser. 6
Tavernier:
After starting in a bizarre CB slot, the skipper quickly reverted to his RB position. And didn’t do a lot with it, in truth. Had a fair chunk of the ball, but wasn’t able to convert any decent crosses. Got the winner with a fine penalty and that was the biggest say of all. 6
Goldson:
Goldson was ok – he’s starting to take a lot more touches of the ball than he did when Gio first arrived, and is slipping back into that ball-hogging habit. And his passing wasn’t as good as it needs to be. But defensively he’s mostly solid and clearing his lines when he should. 6
Bassey:
Didn’t assert himself in this one, but did clear his lines well. Sharp passing from the youngster meant there wasn’t too much to complain about. 6
Patterson:
Doesn’t really suit LB but made the best of his opportunity. A few crossing attempts made, and tried to get forward to support Kent, but mostly a fringe performance. 6
Kamara:
Game of two halves for this guy. Was completely in the wrong position first half – played advanced against ten men and it left him isolated. Was withdrawn to the ‘Hearts’ role and started to get into it a lot better. 6
Lundstram:
In truth he didn’t do much wrong, and was unfortunate to be hooked. We could sum it up by saying his passing was close to perfect and he made 3 great tackles too. 7
Arfield:
Pretty uncharacteristically weak from Arfield, barely seen in this one. 23 touches and 18 passes summed up a bizarrely poor afternoon from him. 5
Hagi:
There were a few raised eyebrows when the desperately awful Hagi was named MOTM by the sponsors. Passing all over the place, and little he did worked. He never stopped trying though. 5
Kent:
By an absolute country mile Rangers’ best overall performer. Always a danger, willing to run at defenders, and by far the most productive in the side. 7
Subs:
Wright:
Did ok with his chance but didn’t add much to proceedings. 5
Aribo:
Wasn’t able to get into the match as a late sub. 5
Manager:
Gio van Bronckhorst made a raft of changes for this one, and frankly while the away side did park the bus, the hosts looked disjointed as a result of those changes. We also have absolutely no idea what was going on with Tav as CB and Bassey as LB for the first 5 minutes. His subs didn’t have a big impact but his players kept going for him, and the winner meant it all. This really was winning ugly and that’s fine by us. 7
Poor Alfie didn’t even merit a rating!?
He did, but I forgot haha! And for the giggle just decided to leave it as was!
That’s Dundee Utd park the buses 10 men behind the ball ,
Totally different game at Tannadice when Mulgrew and the so called defence went absent without leave AWOL giving the scum across the city 3 x goals to better there goals ratio.
Most important thing is 3 more points in the bag and a step closer to 56 title win for Sir Walter.
The Gers juggernaut is picking up pace that’s us on a bad day watch us go when we click right into gear someone is going to get a thumping.
Merry Xmas to all fellow bears and Lulu WATP.
Still like Wright, but Killie was 100% the wrong fit for him and I knew from the word go he’d struggle there. But few can deny Gio is a superior manager to Tommy. Both are Bears. So we wish Tommy the best in his next gig but we’ve got quite the prize now.
I think you’re ratings and comments are far too harsh.
This was a difficult game for Rangers to control as Dundee Utd did not park the bus as you say but came out and made a game of it.
This seemed to catch Rangers and Gio on the hop.Hence the reason for tactical changes very early on.
I thought Dundee Utd played really well and we did well to beat them.
There’s some truth in that Alex but we were playing a United team with 6 enforced changes with a bunch of inexperienced kids playing. We should’ve been able to wipe the floor with them regardless of how they set up but too many of our players were off the pace.
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