Rangers beat RBL 5 months ago.
Nothing changed in 5 months then? Cause the current team is a poor poor imitation to me in Europe.
We're playing sides who are a level above RBL.
Ajax are probably on similar level. Napoli and Liverpool I will accept. I just hope after prices we charge we have a real go next midweek. Point stands away from home we don't even have a go and look beat before we even start.
Ajax was an absolute mess, no denying that. We've also lost 2 hugely influential players in Europe which I feel has had a big impact on us. The point is Gio has shown he can compete against sides in Europe at RBL's level.
They've sold a lot of that team. So you're not comparing like for like.
You can’t have a rational discussion about football with their fans.
The seeding for clubs like us and Ajax etc are pretty meaningless to actually telling you where a team currently is. When you have a big summer of sales the previous season results don't tell you where a team is. Leipzig and Ajax right now are a similar level of team imo. CL teams that depending on strength of group go into Europa or get 2nd spot. If they played each other it's a 50/50 tie imo.
Leipzig come 43rd Shaktar 27th
Amazing how people forget this, or belittle their impact on our team. They are the only two players anyone wanted to buy from that team, that means something.
That and with the money we have spent it’s only really Colak who has made any real impact so far. With the money brought in although losing those two would impact us we should have been able to make our starting XI stronger overall but we haven’t.
You see it all the time in football when a team has a good season and ends up selling their best players. It’s just the nature of football.
How much did you pay for an interpreter for that.
Mate come on be fair. They hit the post v Real Madrid. The biggest achievement from a Scottish team in Europe in decades.
The form Liverpool are in this season. How vulnerable their defence is. I would've liked us to have more of a go. Yes.
They conveniently forget they have outspent the whole of Scottish football.
They were the form side in Germany in 2022 when we played them. From the turn of the year they had won more points than anyone on the Bundesliga.
RBL should have been 2-0 up inside 3 mins of the game. They were given a real doing and got off lightly in the end.
Hope so. Got to fancy RBL will carve them open a good few times, but they did look very ropey at the back.
Same team? Doubt many will agree with you on that.
Whilst I understand that we are playing team another level up this season, e really do appear to have regressed. We reached the EL final, beating Dortmund and RB on the way, whilst playing an energetic, pressing and (counter) attacking style of play.
Yes, but we are performing to nowhere near the same standard in Europe. Closest we’ve been was Napoli at Ibrox. We’d struggle in the Europa League currently. There’s no energy and no pressing with a clear issue doing the basics such as passing.
Do you think the passing is bad because the players are unsure of positions? Just a thought that they are not following whatever tactics Gio is trying to implement.
I’ve no idea but we got a doing at Parkhead twice and beat at Ibrox with similar sort of “stand off” and low energy tactics last year during our Europa League run so it says to me it’s the management.
