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On Dessers, he excels in one and two touch hold up/link play imo. If you're firing it into him with no immediate runners he struggles badly. Which is why I think Bajrami in the 10 will make a big difference - you saw that the other night with how they linked up through the middle. Lawrence just hasn't got the legs for it.

Plus ca change encore. Having viewed another humiliation at ra Stade de Gadd, I decided a month in French froggy France was necessary. I found both sustenance and consolation in table d'hote lunches. This allowed me to view the ensuing Rangers games on line, with varying degrees of trepidation. There is an undeniable advantage to being abroad for every Rangers supporter, when attempting to view/hear BBC Scotland's live content you are met with Big Dick telling you, "due to licensing reasons, live content is unavailable in your location". Do not fret fellow Bears, the full spectrum from indifference to hate can be accessed on BBC Scotland's website. First up is Richard Foster, I read on line that Wee Dick had been the recipient of a six match suspension due to his claims that the VAR explanation to award Dessers goal against St Johnstone was, "lies, it's a lie". I clicked on to PQ's website for a the fuller story and eventually found a two sentence report. The national broadcaster fully facilitated Wee Dick's gaffe but, obviously refrained from taking credit. Turn the volume down when Wee Dick is being caned, turn it up to eleven when he swings the boot into Rangers. Next up is Tom English, he was not impressed with Rangers performance at Tannadice. Sitting on a balcony in Brittany, it was a hard view but, I thought Rangers looked untroubled. Our problem is something that has become more apparent, profligacy? Tom decided the Ref' cautioned several Rangers players because they were hanging on and were intent upon wasting time. I thought the match stats published along side Tom's comment rubbished his claim. Dundee United did not create a single attempt on the Rangers goal. Tom was off to PQ in the green, in the green for Euro' action. He was stuck in the studio on the night when the ra Sellik faced Bratislava because he continues to suffer a Peter ban from joining the Irish diaspora at the Brendan Bowl. It was Slovakaneasy for the hooped horrors and Vladimir Weiss won a BAFTA as perfect pantomime villain. We endured eight separate stories on the PQ website : a match report, Brendan's post match comments, where Sellik won the game, Sellik second in the CL table, report on the unmatched atmosphere, Sellik carrying the Scottish standard, Sellik's contribution to the coefficient and, how much Sellik earned from the result. It was an evening of party streamers and balloons that carried into the next day's news bulletins. In contrast, PQ was considerably more downbeat when Rangers travelled to Sweden. The broadcaster's build up told us we had never beaten Malmo in Euro' action and the club's social media was extracting enormous joy from previous meetings. If we were applying our shoulder to carry the Scottish standard, PQ were determined not to provide any wind to see it flying. Despit our profligacy, Rangers enjoyed a comfortable 0-2 victory in the land of smorgasbord. The evidence suggests BBC Scotland found the buffet rather unpalatable? The website carried two reports, a match report from Martin Dowden and an insight piece from Thomas Duncan. Alongside these two items, there were three reports on Sellik ladies qualifying for the Champions League, including a two minute highlights package. Forty seconds of the 140 showed arms linked Sellik players standing in front of a Broomfield stand containing a couple of hundred supporters singing, 'You'll never walk alone'. The next day's news bulletins did not carry a mention of the Rangers result but, the perceived good news of the Bernadettes qualification and ensuing draw did. We were spared a showing/hearing of the musical anthem about suicide. Finally, another story I picked up from BBC Scotland's website was Glasgow City Council's decision to cash in on the forty year popularity of Glaswegians adorning the Queen Street Duke of Wellington's equestrian statue with traffic cone head wear. GCC are placing a bigger traffic cone hat on Chookie Boots containing paid for advertising. You know the type of thing - 'Susan Aitken Meatloaf tribute act playing soon'? I suggest PQ invest and indulge, ah mean ra Chookie was born'n'bred in Ireland. Something appropriate eg - BBC Scotland, happy to blow Peter's cheese or truthful - BBC Scotland, a Celtic State of Mind. Plus ca change encore.

Who else thinks Bajrami is going to take a dislike to the yahoos? 😋 seems quite a fiery character.

These spells will get longer the more we play together. We have a new unit of players that we need to let develop.

Hoping this gives us a morale boost that we can kick on from. No shots on target against is very encouraging. Have to say I thought Malmo were tactically awful and we will have much tougher games ahead in Europe.

Dundee United beat Barcelona in the Nou Camp

All our players should have a dislike for them , i can't abide our players helping them up when they've gone to ground ,they should be fined for that sort of behaviour.

Football is wonderfully unpredictable isn’t it.

Won me 2 points 🤣

I think spitting on them would be acceptable.

Would be nice

Both Bo'ness United and Bo'ness Athletic won their Scottish Cup ties today. What chance a Bo'ness Derby in the next round?

Think they said "No VAR intervention".

A win for the toffees just watch us fly up that table now. 😆

How did the game survive before VAR I think it’s just a jobs for the boys thing something like a political idea like a jobs creation scheme

Thought all EL games had VAR? there’s no VAR for Swedish domestic games as I understand

No VAR in operation on Thursday - hence Malmos wrestling tactics and the lack of punishment.

You look at the level of refereeing on the pitch and note that those on the panel are essentially of the same level as said referees, there is little doubt about the outcome of these things. Alas, European refs are not much better, Thursday saw two rather blatant fouls on Dessers not given, apparently not even reviewed AFAIK. BTW, has the Compliance Officer made redundant, or is he/she in hibernation till Kerrydale Street needs him/her again?

Like every good striker, he has the ability, temperament and mindset not to let missed chances bother / get to him.

Alright, lets see if further improvement this weekend. Was tempted to scrap scorelines and just go with Home win, away win, score or no score draw. There are still 6 teams looking for a first win but I cant see Southampton, Ipswich, Wolves or Leicester getting one this weekend (perhaps backing all 4 at the bookies on an accumulator is worth a fiver!). Everton v Palace who are both looking for a first win meeting at Goodison. The Everton takeover stuff may boost them but I thought Palace would be the surprise package this season as they have a top manager who went on a good winning run last season. Super Sunday - both managers need a win at Old Trafford, it could be a basketball match. Newcastle 1-2 Man City Arsenal 4-0 Leicester Brentford 0-2 West Ham Chelsea 2-1 Brighton Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace Nottingham Forest 2-2 Fulham Wolves 0-3 Liverpool Ipswich 0-2 Aston Villa Man Utd 2-2 Tottenham Bournemouth 1-0 Southampton

The beauty of football, I thought he was excellent!.

Can't see us dropping our top scorer (by some distance) for a player yet to score at this level in a must win league game. Your "probable" team won't be far off, and neither should it be. At this moment in time, that's our strongest 11 and we need to start playing the same 11 players to get cohesion. If Cortes ever gets fit, he'd be left-side attacker and Bajrami would move to the number 10 role.

I thought Cerny played fine last night despite his miss. Looked a yard or so quicker as well. As such I'd probably stick with him for now to increase his fitness and sharpness but would have no issue with McCausland playing as he's not let us down so far this season when called upon.

The ideal start to our Europa League campaign last night. Thought for the most part we were well organised, kept our shape well and really limited Malmo to the odd set-piece whilst clearly looking very dangerous on the counter ourselves with some positive passages of play. No surprise Malmo upped their game for a period after half-time and I did think the manager was a wee bit slow to react to this and we were maybe fortunate not to concede. Barron did have the tendency to jump out of midfield to a degree which left gaps that Cerny and Lawrence sometimes struggled to identify and react to. Bringing on Raskin and Sterling basically shut down the Malmo threat and the 2nd goal really made us comfortable. All in all, a very good team performance but various individuals stood out: Souttar, Propper, Nana, Barron and Bajrami to name a few but everyone played their part. Onto Hibs now and another win really would help us gain more confidence. Credit to the manager and players for reacting well to that Old Firm humbling and not allowing the off-field/boardroom noise to affect their contribution. Can't wait to get back to a full Ibrox on Sunday!

Impressive

Clement has not lost an away game in Europe. Betis, Benfica, Kiev, Malmo.

They didn't have a shot on target.

I think I’d like to see McCausland on for Cerny, more creative and can actually finish.