{"id":819259,"date":"2026-10-31T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:46:12","slug":"rangers-v-aberdeen-can-robinson-work-hampden-magic-in-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/819259\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers v Aberdeen: Can Robinson work Hampden magic in semi-final?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Robinson’s position has been relentlessly scrutinised, this semi-final is no less important for Rangers boss McInnes.<\/p>\n

One league title, one Scottish Cup, and one League Cup in 14 years is an embarrassing trophy return for Rangers given the money the club have spent.<\/p>\n

McInnes is the latest manager charged with changing that after two trophyless campaigns at Ibrox, last season being the first under American ownership who have invested heavily.<\/p>\n

Despite consistently showing his managerial abilities, in particular when almost winning a sensational title with Hearts last term, McInnes only has one major trophy to show for it.<\/p>\n

That was the League Cup he won in 2014 when in charge of Aberdeen, who he led to Hampden regularly, only to come up against Treble-winning Celtic sides at every turn.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Rangers’ rivals have already been dispatched 3-0 in the quarter-finals<\/a>, a rousing win at Ibrox which helped change the direction of their season.<\/p>\n

Rangers have created the chance for themselves to claim silverware at the first attempt this season – and they simply must take advantage.<\/p>\n

“To get the first trophy would be so important, reinforcing confidence, reinforcing belief,” the Rangers boss admitted.<\/p>\n

“Traditionally, semi-finals can be fraught with a lot of nerves and tension and sometimes they’re not the best games, because of what’s at stake.”<\/p>\n

McInnes is leading an expensively assembled but relatively inexperienced team, and at times they were spooked at a raucous Tynecastle on Wednesday<\/a> as they were fortunate to claim a late draw.<\/p>\n

But in the two Old Firm wins this season, they looked physically dominant and completely assured. McInnes needs his team to deal with the occasion again.<\/p>\n

A slip now against a struggling Aberdeen will set him and this Rangers team back, and hard-earned trust with fans will disappear.<\/p>\n

Win, though, and a December final date against Hearts or Hibernian presents a magnificent opportunity for McInnes to make an early mark at Ibrox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Robinson’s position has been relentlessly scrutinised, this semi-final is no less important for Rangers boss McInnes. One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}