{"id":44225,"date":"2025-09-26T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44225\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:06:09","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-and-team-news-slot-howe-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44225\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences and team news: Slot & Howe coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin feels heat again, but are Rangers players letting him down?published at 08:17 BST<\/p>\n

08:17 BST<\/p>\n

Rangers 0-1 Genk<\/p>\n

\"\"Tom English
BBC Scotland chief sports writer at Ibrox<\/p>\n

\"Rangers'Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

There’s no end of flak that can be flung at Russell Martin for the epic fail that is his project at Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But watching his reaction when Mohamed Diomande got a deserved red card four minutes before half-time at Ibrox made you feel for the man.<\/p>\n

Rangers had been second best. Fitful at the back, wasteful in possession, headless chickens in too many areas. Again.<\/p>\n

Even before the red, it looked likely that Martin’s period of calm after Saturday’s League Cup win over Hibernian was about to come to a shuddering and noisy end.<\/p>\n

In losing the plot, Diomande more or less ensured that Rangers were losing this Europa League opener against Genk, currently Belgium’s 14th best team.<\/p>\n

By lunging in on Zakaria El Ouahdi, Diomande left his team-mates in a terrible lurch, already struggling with 11 and now sitting ducks with 10.<\/p>\n

The lack of self-control was unforgivable, the look of confused innocence on his face in the aftermath a complete nonsense. A 1-0 defeat was incoming.<\/p>\n

Diomande, who on his very best days looks like a player worthy of the jersey, has been nowhere near it this season. Too often he’s been lazy in his work and now he was ridiculous in his discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin feels heat again, but are Rangers players letting him down?published at 08:17 BST 08:17 BST Rangers 0-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-44225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}