Morelos Sitting out Feyernood?

No, no and no again. Play the best team for this game, deal with the consequences of that after the game.

It was stupid playing v Ayr United and risking a semi final. It;s not stupid against Feynoord when a victory means we are in the next round.
 
I don’t think that’s right, if it’s a 3 way H2H then we would be above Porto. Porto can’t beat us on the H2H rule

That’s two different things. Yes we have a better H2H record against Porto alone, but in a 3 way scenario with us, them and YB all finishing on 10 points, we’d finish 3rd as it uses results between the 3 teams matches against each other. YB 6, Porto 6, us 4.
 
Can you show your workings on how Porto would beat us on a head to head?

If us, Porto and YB were to all finish on 10 points it would assume we’d beat Feyenoord, Porto would beat YB then Feyenoord, while we lose to YB at Ibrox.

It would then come down to the results between the 3 teams, not the individual H2H record:

Porto 7 (2x wins v YB, draw v us)
YB 6 (2x wins v us)
Us 4 (win & draw v Porto)
 
That’s two different things. Yes we have a better H2H record against Porto alone, but in a 3 way scenario with us, them and YB all finishing on 10 points, we’d finish 3rd as it uses results between the 3 teams matches against each other. YB 6, Porto 6, us 4.
That’s rubbish. Seems unfair that Porto would progress ahead of us when we have better results. Need to hope for a draw between the other two then
 
That’s rubbish. Seems unfair that Porto would progress ahead of us when we have better results. Need to hope for a draw between the other two then

Yeah it’s fucked up but apparently that’s how it works.
 
Play our best team and go for it in every match. Our recent record shows we are capable of going toe to toe with any of these teams and beating them. Leaving out our best player is basically admitting defeat before a ball is kicked and would be a terrible move.
 
Tough one coz feyenord home and young boys away Morelos bullied the two defences.

If we do get beat in Rotterdam and he does get booked can Defoe do the same job? Imo prob not aswell as morelos but then we would need everyone to be at there best.

Still taking it into consideration, morelos has got to start in Rotterdam
 
No, we play him, we play to win and if he gets booked we'll get that Defoe guy that sits on our bench to start against YB's, he looks half decent
 
We play our best players if available in every game,in every competition .We don't have the strength in depth that people think we have.Yes we have a stronger bench than before ,but leaving out players like Morelos,Jack,Kent,Davis or Goldson could be very costly.We simply aren't good enough to do without them in any competition
 
Have to play Morelos away in Europe 100%.

As much as I love Defoe, if you look at the goals Morelos has scored away in Europe for us. Defoe doesnt score them and thats taking nothing away from him. His all round movement is just better suited to Defoe in these away games. I would be much more content playing Defoe at home to Young Boys.
 
FFS it's like Carol Vodermann on speed in here. Look like a draw away and a win at home sees us through regardless.

Don't even need to win at home. If we get 2 draws v Feyenoord and Young Boys, we are guaranteed to go through on 9 points.

Bizarrely, as others have pointed out, we could beat Feyenoord and still go out with 10 points, but only if we then lost to Young Boys and Porto won their last 2 games.

For those still confused, if we ended in a 3 way tie with Porto and Young Boys on 10 points, due to the above sequence of results, all 3 teams results against Feyenoord would be effectively wiped out. Qualification would then be worked out based upon a 3 team league, which would see us eliminated. (Porto 7, Young Boys 6, Rangers 4)

Rachel Riley Loyal.
 
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