Rangers manager Philippe Clement must win the Scottish Cup and end Celtic's domestic dominance or he will become the latest casualty of the Ibrox…
AS he looked ahead to Rangers’ encounter with Celtic at Parkhead the following day at Auchenhowie on Friday afternoon, Philippe Clement joked about how much he had been getting shown “the middle finger” by opposition fans in the build-up to the match.
There remains, even though the league is almost lost, widespread admiration of the job which Clement has done down Govan way and a heartfelt appreciation the significant improvements that he has overseen since being appointed manager back in October.
However, failing to prevail in three Old Firm games in a row does nothing to endear a Rangers manager to his team’s supporters regardless of the reasons. Such a negative reaction is only to be expected after such a devastating result. Some of it was justified, but a lot of it was unfair. Footballers instantly become far better than they actually are, become the panacea to all of a side’s ills in fact, if they do not feature and a reverse is suffered. Cantwell has regularly been posted missing against Celtic in the past.But the statistics were certainly damning. Rangers mustered just a solitary shot on target during the course of 90 minutes.
Rangers, though, had been second best up until that point. Would the final outcome really have been any different if Lundstram, who clumsily turned a Daizen Maeda cross beyond his goalkeeper during his time on the pitch, had not been ordered off? It is unlikely given the extent to which the hosts had dominated.
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