{"id":96973,"date":"2025-08-27T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:59:08","slug":"champions-league-club-brugge-v-rangers-live-report-analysis-commentary-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96973\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Club Brugge v Rangers LIVE &#8211; report, analysis, commentary &#038; reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll just keep working to be better&#8217;published at 19:15 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>19:15 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Club Brugge v Rangers (20:00)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers successfully negotiated a way past Panathinaikos and Viktoria Plzen to get here, but domestic form has been a problem, with three successive 1-1 draws in the Premiership &#8211; against Motherwell, Dundee and St Mirren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were jeers from visiting supporters in Paisley on Sunday and lots of empty seats at Ibrox by half-time in the first leg of this contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Russell Martin insists he is &#8220;really enjoying it despite the frustration at the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Every fan I&#8217;ve bumped into has been great and really understands that club needs something now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The frenzy sometimes, and the ups and downs, and the highs and lows and the real gap between those, sometimes has dictated probably the decision-making of the football club and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s helped it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s my opinion, and I think it&#8217;s the opinion shared by most of the people inside the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll just keep working to be better and give everything we&#8217;ve got and I think that&#8217;s all you can ever do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rangers head coach Russell Martin in conversation with coach Mike Williamson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9b2a0d76-f69a-42aa-a2bd-77ce3a0dfa2c.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, SNSImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers head coach Russell Martin in conversation with coach Mike Williamson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;ll just keep working to be better&#8217;published at 19:15 British Summer Time 19:15 BST Club Brugge v Rangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-96973","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96973","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=96973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}