It was a miserable night in Cyprus as the Ibrox side slumped to a 2-1 defeat.
Steven Davis this week thanked the board for the opportunity they’d given him as interim Rangers boss. Ninety minutes in and he might be wishing they hadn’t bothered.
Right from the off Gers were ragged. Beale’s £13million frontline have taken the brunt of the stick this season but it was old stagers like James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Borna Barisic and Ben Davies who were posted missing as goals from Alex Moucketou-Moussounda and Shavy Babicka consigned them to a fifth defeat of the season already.
Gers emerged from the tunnel decked out in the crimson kit their ever-understanding commercial department sprung on seething supporters last week. But even the new togs couldn’t disguise the same old sloppy, slap-dash work that has been causing them problems all season. And he was caught static again from the resulting corner as Aris stormed ahead eight minutes in. The ball was played short to Leo Bengtsson, whose delivery was bang on the money for Moucketou-Moussounda to glance home as Goldson failed to match his man.
Perhaps had the men in the video booth spent a little longer looking at Moucketou-Moussounda’s crude stamp on Scott Wright the Gabon defender might have been hit with a stiffer punishment than the yellow referee Horatiu Fesnic flashed after his first glance.
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