Rangers have work to do in their Europa League third qualifying round tie after defensive lapses were punished by triumphant Jagiellonia Bialystok in Poland.<\/p>\n
Kajetan Szmyt scored a first-half double to capitalise on an error-strewn display from Derek McInnes’ side in the opening 45 minutes of the first leg.<\/p>\n
Despite a dream start for the visitors, when Tuur Rommens drilled a low cross that zipped through a tangle of legs before cannoning over the line off home defender Guilherme Montoia, Rangers failed to get a hold of the game.<\/p>\n
Their goal was wiped out by a soft concession. Szmyt dragged his side forward wide on the left and worked an angle for a cross that evaded everyone and sneaked in at the far post past the outstretched Ivor Pandur.<\/p>\n
The hosts struck again within 10 minutes following a counter-attack that started on the edge of their own area after Thelo Aasgaard tried a spinning flick, much to his manager’s chagrin.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Fernandez slipped as he tried to block the subsequent cross and Pandur made a strong initial save, but Szmyt doubled his haul by following up sharply to fire in the rebound.<\/p>\n
A mix-up between Dujon Sterling and Fernandez allowed the home side the chance for a third, but Rodrigo Conceicao opted to blast wide instead of sliding across the area for an almost certain goal. <\/p>\n
Rangers looked all over the place for much of the first period, prompting McInnes to make three half-time changes. The introduction of Cammy Devlin, Findlay Curtis and the sought-after Nicolas Raskin gave them a much better foundation.<\/p>\n
Szmyt went close to a hat-trick with a shot straight at Pandur, and Spaniard Jesus Imaz skewed a first-time attempt wide after another swift counter-attack.<\/p>\n
But Rangers finished strongly and Ross McCrorie had a powerful drive well blocked, substitute Lawrence Shankland’s effort was smothered a yard out then Curtis’ stoppage-time volley rattled the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers have work to do in their Europa League third qualifying round tie after defensive lapses were punished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-585371","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\/585371","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=585371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}