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Who fancies another 30mins of this? Hibs looking as likely as we are to score.

Well that escalated quickly

To be fair it was strapped up after Thursday nights game. Only a matter or time. Another one bites the dust.

FFS Tav, robbed me of 1st goalscorer - drop him PC.

Rangers 2 v 1 Hibs Tav FGS

If and it's a huge if, Roofe could stay fit, it would a consideration, bit given his apparent fragility, I can't see us even considering renewing his contract. My hope for Roofe is for him to stay fit enough to positively impact the remainder of the season which should result in trophies us, medals for Roofe and a good way for us to part company.

Out of all the players who are out of contract at the end of this season, he is the only one I'd not have an issue with us renewing. Whilst we require "new blood", it also helps having experienced players at the club and I believe Lundstram has shown his worth to us over his spell. However I trust DoF and manager and believe that a new deal is on the table.

Bad news for Zac Lovelace - end of his season and I think he is in last year of his contract?

This puts last nights game into perspective. Rest easy fellow Bear.

It's only halftime - we've neither won nor lost the tie. Being proud of the teams performance against a team that are superior to us and havent lost a home EL tie isn't "celebrating". Just recognition of a fantastic performance / result that further enhances our growing EL reputation.

Well, Bill Leckie has just spoilt my morning coffee....... not 😀

A Bola - Portuguese media wrote ; A Bola (Portugal) "Benfica's 25 shots compared to Rangers' nine gives an image of the Reds' superiority which, when you look closely, is relative, because what matters in this statistic is how many were on target. And, in that aspect, there was also a draw: 5-5. In other words, even without having more attacking flow, Rangers' vertical football caused problems for Trubin and the wall that protected the Ukrainian. These are alerts for the second leg, where, normally, Rangers find a precious ally in their fans to create a hostile atmosphere for their opponents.

Off course, liability is harsh, outwith the OG Goldson had a good game but some fans will continue to berate certain players - that's football. Last night, Lundstram played well in patches and not so well in other patches. However, it looked more like fatigue. He has been one of our most consistent performers this season and has shown he can play and excel at this level. We are suffering from lack of options due to either players coming back from injury, or still out injured. I'd like to hope this will ease over the coming weeks and we also have an international break which will also help.

You have to remember that they managed to strike the woodwork at home against Real, that in itself makes them a CL superpower 😀 I think their £70M in the bank masks a lot of their failures in Europe where they have been an unmitigated disaster for years now. I'm happy it doesn't get the spotlight it deserves, more than happy for us to continue to defy the odds and punch way above our weight knowing that it rankles with them. However, if you search outside of this parochial shit hole we reside in, Rangers get plenty of recognition. Funnily enough, as do players who regularly get written off by us Rangers fans.

A lot of contenders - Lawrence, Sterling, Butland, Silva, Dio, Tav and Souttar were all standouts for me (rest of team were very good as well). Have gone for Silva - started the game on fire and was heavily involved in both goals. No real arguments with whoever anyone picks as team was littered with big performances

In 2008 we were ranked joint 262 in Europe's rankings, we are now ranked 25th - a truly meteoric rise.

Didn't realise until I heard PC mention it during his post-match interview, but Benfica haven't lost a home EL tie. Makes tonight's result and performance even more impressive.

It's always "black or white". If he scored a goal or two with the same performance the same "fans" would be saying how brilliant he was. He had a job to do tonight and he did it. He was lone forward and he worked his socks off. Linked the play reasonably well. He's no Ronaldo, but he has proven he is an asset as he scores goal, never hides and makes sacrifices for the team.

Credit to the entire team tonight. Benfica are a CL class team and whilst at times they had us on the ropes, we defended manfully and took our chances when they arrived. Whilst everyone will chose their "standouts", and there were players who truly stood up tonight I was most heartened by the team performance. Next week will be another huge test, but it's Rangers, its a Thursday evening, it's the Europa League and most importantly, it's Ibrox.

And he's shit at pens 😀

And it could be argued that Benfica and Porto are CL level teams. We continue to punch above our weight in EL. A compition that we've excelled in since the arrival of Gerrard.

Given the amount of games we could have, we'll need at least half of them back at some point. PC will also continue his rotation. He really has no option as squad is decimated in the creative areas.

Compare and contrast to the one West Ham were denied tonight. Ref asked to review a blatant hand ball and stuck with his original (wrong) decision of no penalty 🙄

It does at the moment, but hopefully Sima, Cantwell, Matando, Cortes and Danilo back before season ends. We'll need them IMO