Let’s not kid ourselves on. We were total shite. Not one player I’d give pass marks to, not even Lundstrum. What will it take for these guys to wake the fk up!
I disagree. Porto, benfica and leverkusen were better.Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
I thought we had plenty of dig, but lacked quality. The amount of mistimed tackles and times they escaped our press was very poor considering how good we've been in Europe last 3 seasonsWe were beaten by a better team but we have almost no dig and no fight in the players we have.
That’s not their fault though. We need a couple of new players with more dig and fight to compliment the better players.
We need a couple of ‘win at all cost’ type players.I thought we had plenty of dig, but lacked quality. The amount of mistimed tackles and times they escaped our press was very poor considering how good we've been in Europe last 3 seasons
Wasn't meant to be a 'dig' (no pun intended lol) but I agree.We need a couple of ‘win at all cost’ type players.
That’s what dig and fight means to me.
Another moronic post , this place is full of greeting faced kid on supporters tonight. The Lyon squad is valued at over £200m. We should have been level at HT. Why don’t you wake the fk up or better still get tae yer bedLet’s not kid ourselves on. We were total shite. Not one player I’d give pass marks to, not even Lundstrum. What will it take for these guys to wake the fk up!
Mate if you think they were the same level as those teams, they weren’t, they were at least in par with Leverkusen. Might be hard roNot any better than Porto and Benfica and certainly not better than Leverkusen were. Any decent side will score goals against them.
I’m working. We’ve been shite since the season started (luckily grinding out results) and I don’t give a fk if they are worth 200 mil. They were there for the taking. So take your moronic post and stick it up your arse, if you can squeeze it past yer heid. You used and the wanker that liked you pile of pish.Another moronic post , this place is full of greeting faced kid on supporters tonight. The Lyon squad is valued at over £200m. We should have been level at HT. Why don’t you wake the fk up or better still get tae yer bed
I’m working. We’ve been shite since the season started (luckily grinding out results) and I don’t give a fk if they are worth 200 mil. They were there for the taking. So take your moronic post and stick it up your arse, if you can squeeze it past yer heid. You used and the wanker that liked you pile of pish.
We’ve scored eighteen goals this season, half of them came against Dunfermline and Ross County. We averaged a goal a game in the other nine games. That won’t work.We are starting to look powderpuff in the final third.
The reports on here were about Lyon being a “Champions League” team a “200 million team” that wasn’t what I saw, and the Rangers team that played in Europe last year would have picked up a result against this “Champions league team”. McGregor had no chance with the first goal and more bad defending cost us a second. We were shite and the coaches need to start figuring out what’s going otherwise no mas Europe for us this season. Lyon aren’t that good from what I saw.They weren't there for the taking at all. If your entire argument is predicated on the fact we've been poor all season so far, then how at any point were a team of Lyon's quality there for the taking? Even if we were going into this game firing, then there would still be every chance Lyon would prove too much for us.
The reports on here were about Lyon being a “Champions League” team a “200 million team” that wasn’t what I saw, and the Rangers team that played in Europe last year would have picked up a result against this “Champions league team”. McGregor had no chance with the first goal and more bad defending cost us a second. We were shite and the coaches need to start figuring out what’s going otherwise no mas Europe for us this season. Lyon aren’t that good from what I saw.
Based on the game I watched today, they were there for the taking by a Rangers side firing on all cylinders. I, like a few others it looks like, thought this would have been the ideal game for the lads to come out the traps salivating; get their MOJO back so to speak. They didn’t. It’s worrying.Lyon are normally a Champions League side. Go and take a look at the last 5 seasons. They were in the semi final two seasons ago. They also outstrip us when it comes to budget and quality of player they can attract. That matters an awful lot in football.
They played better than we did and you got the sense they still had gears to go up during that game. You could argue that we could have given them a game if we were in better form but we're not. So it's a bit of a moot point. Absolutely zero shame in losing narrowly to a side like Lyon, even at Home.
We've lost our first group game and now have 4 very winnable games against sides who are worse than Lyon before we have to face Lyon in France in the last group game. Still all to play for.
Based on the game I watched today, they were there for the taking by a Rangers side firing on all cylinders. I, like a few others it looks like, thought this would have been the ideal game for the lads to come out the traps salivating; get their MOJO back so to speak. They didn’t. It’s worrying.Lyon are normally a Champions League side. Go and take a look at the last 5 seasons. They were in the semi final two seasons ago. They also outstrip us when it comes to budget and quality of player they can attract. That matters an awful lot in football.
They played better than we did and you got the sense they still had gears to go up during that game. You could argue that we could have given them a game if we were in better form but we're not. So it's a bit of a moot point. Absolutely zero shame in losing narrowly to a side like Lyon, even at Home.
We've lost our first group game and now have 4 very winnable games against sides who are worse than Lyon before we have to face Lyon in France in the last group game. Still all to play for.
Who ? What ? Fly in to tackles types? First work like that now .We need a couple of ‘win at all cost’ type players.
That’s what dig and fight means to me.
Regardless of how good they were, we were poor again...Malmo, Alashkert, Lyon we haven't performed at all in Europe
Away, mate. Get the pitchforks out. I agree and until the second we were in it.Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
Decent team but Europa league level.Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
I agree,but we did make it easy for them,we gave them far too much respect and probably to much emphasis on how technical they are by the staff,AND until we change from a back four to a three we will ALWAYS struggle against teams of that calibre.Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
See I disagree completely. I didn’t think Lyon were a patch on bayer and they are not a champs league team, they are in the europa with us. If we had been able to get to last seasons levels we would have beaten them tonight. I know it’s all ifs, buts and opinions but I wasn’t as impressed by them as some on this thread, we missed an opportunity last nightTotally agree with the OP.
Lyon are as good as Leverkusen, if not better.
Some folk are going on as if we just lost to Livingston.
Dunno what bookie you were looking at but sky bet had us at the same oddsThe bookies odds of us winning pre-match tell you all you need to know. Lyon are a top side and if we got a result it would have been a big upset.
Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
No shame getting beat from the top seeds.
I agree, they let us give it the wide boy for the first few minutes, some folk on here even suggested they looked rattled, they didn't, they were just taking our meassure then dealt with us in the way they felt necessary, playing for time, picking up cute free kicks and plenty of decoy runs. They are a solid team that are 2 levels above us.Lyon were a class above tonight, a champions league team. They knew exactly how to see out a game. Probably the best team we have faced under Gerrard.
This is it for me too.Better team or not we were shite. Took far too long to do a basic pass, no service up front and a lot of our players looked right off it. I expected a lot better.
Pillow talk we have beat better teams.