It was Rangers’ job to come up with the creativity to break Jablonec down and what a meal they made of it. A 12-course banquet of huff and puff finally brought to an end by one of the few bouts of coherent football that led to Ryan Naderi’s winner.<\/p>\n
The positives won’t take long. A one-goal lead to take to Jablonec next week; a clean-sheet; industry from Djeidi Gassama and James Penrice; assured defending from Olwethu Makhanya; signs of improvement in Naderi; a full-time whistle not accompanied by booing, as the half-time whistle had been.<\/p>\n
It was a tough watch, though. Rangers in that first half lacked movement and cleverness and X-factor. They were an eyesore. Time and again, defenders looked downfield for a pass to hit only to see their team-mates looking back at them, unmoving and tightly marked.<\/p>\n
Poor old Emmanuel Fernandez had another difficult experience but there were times when you had sympathy for him. <\/p>\n
Wanting to be positive in possession and play forward, he had no options, nowhere to go but back, which drew groans of derision. When he gambled with a risky ball and failed to find a target, there was another uprising. Angry, angry, angry.<\/p>\n
He gestured at one point, a waved arm that suggested he wasn’t over-burdened with runners ahead of him. <\/p>\n
McInnes spent much of his night walking madly about his technical area. That’s a confined space, but his step count will have been stratospheric. He probably crashed through the 10,000 steps in 15 minutes. Perhaps he needs help, another coach with a different skill-set, new and more imaginative thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Rangers’ job to come up with the creativity to break Jablonec down and what a meal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-599717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599717","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=599717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}