Normally, European nights at Ibrox are electric. <\/p>\n
But it felt flat in the build-up here, with a notable absence of home supporters in sections of the stadium. Anger and outrage are difficult to deal with but apathy can be even more acutely felt.<\/p>\n
Fan protests were less evident after the weekend League Cup win over Hibernian, not that the tide has turned on that front by any means. Certainly not after this.<\/p>\n
This was seen as an ideal opportunity to build some momentum against a side who appeared to be struggling domestically in the same manner as Rangers.<\/p>\n
They didn’t look it as they surged at the Ibrox side time and again.<\/p>\n
Martin’s team had one or two moments of threat but, in truth, Genk were worthy winners and not just because Rangers were a player down for the second half.<\/p>\n
Defensive frailty was all-too evident and ought to have cost them more than it did.<\/p>\n
Youssef Chermiti starting didn’t pay off, but the service was way light. <\/p>\n
The barnstorming type of Europa League occasion these fans have become accustomed to was badly missing as Martin’s side once again struggled. <\/p>\n
That’s four wins from 14 outings. Four defeats in their last seven. That’s not the standard Rangers demand.<\/p>\n
Only wins, and lots of them, will change things if the support are to be re-engaged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normally, European nights at Ibrox are electric. But it felt flat in the build-up here, with a notable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-170004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}