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2-0 Rangers Morelos

General story at the press conference Botteghin came out first and when asked what they had done to improve from the first leg to see what went wrong he said they had studied video's. He said Advocaat had brought a different philosophy and was improving confidence. He said the Rangers strikers were aggressive and they would need to match that. Rangers should expect to see a different Feyenoord tomorrow and they are going to try the forward press, unlike having to go onto the back foot as against Groningen. Advocaat. A lot of injuries but he would not say who. A Lamont from BBC Scotland asked what he thought of Rangers. Scottish teams are underestimated in Holland but Celtic and Rangers are amongst the top European teams and it will be a difficult game. Rangers showed what they can do at ibrox and Feyenoord never turned up. That will have to be different. Thought Gerrard was a great player and looks like he is improving Rangers but he is new and training Youths is different to training top teams. It looks like he could go on to be a top coach. Rangers have bought good players and are a good team it will be difficult. Thoughts on Morelos and Defoe. My only thought is only one will play. DA: Or do you think different? Journalist: No. DA. Well that is that then.? Advocaat had his best time at Ibrox and it is a special club even down to the wash lady. When asked about Zenit beating Rangers he said I am confident of beating Rangers tomorrow but I was far more confident back then. Will it be a surprise if Feyenoord beat Rangers? Yes! Again he stated that he wants Feyenoord to control the game but it is not always possible as sometimes the other team have better players. Then when asked about Fernando Ricksen he wished his family well and that such a young daughter should not be missing her father. He said I took Fernando to Rangers and he became a legend there. Then I took him to Zenit and he became a legend there. Unfortunately it was not on the park. Even in his dark period he was always honest with me though. That was it in a nutshell really and not translated word for word

https://www.feyenoord.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/live---persconferentie-voor-feyenoord---rangers-fc---271119 For anyone interested if anything is in English.

His pieces!? I used to have a colleague who left his house everyday with a briefcase and wearing a Columbo Jacket. All that was in the briefcase was his bread box. It was just all show for his neighbours as he just operated a turning machine.

Rangers travel to the Netherlands on Thursday to play Feyenoord in Rotterdam. Their name is now spelled Feyenoord but was originally Feijenoord. They updated their name from the old Feijenoord and took a modern English language plunge to Feyenoord in 1974 - pity really; changing your original historical name. For anyone who has been to the Feijenoord stadium, known as de Kuip (the bath tub), will know it is a mass of steel. I would rate it higher quality than tin city on the east side of Glasgow, though. During the war years the Germans wanted to demolish it for the scrap metal to turn the steel into weapons but the director of the stadium estimated a much lower tonnage of high class steel and the Germans decided it was not worth knocking down. Later the stadium was also used for pop concerts and my moment of fame was going to watch Pink Floyd playing there in 1988 which was unfortunately the last time the band toured Holland. As we all know Jaap Stam begun the season as manager. Jaap was probably one of the best defenders you could get but after a spell of managing Reading and PEC Zwolle he got a move to Feyenoord,. The team started off playing not great and quickly got worse. Defeat against Rangers, who a certain Dutch journalist called a nothing club, and a chanceless 4-0 defeat against Ajax saw Jaap fall on his sword. Since he left, players have come out and said he was unclear in his instructions. Why didn't they tell him that at the time seems a logical question for me? After his management performances up until now questions do have to be asked about his coaching ability and man management, I am afraid. After Stam departed, Rangers old boss Dick Advocaat took over as interim manager until the end of the season. Dick Advocaat will do one thing to the team: discipline. He is up to this point unbeaten but after Feyenoord drew 1-1 with Groningen at the weekend the same Dutch journalist stated on telly last night that even Dick Advocaat can't polish a jobby! The fact that Feyenoord had less possession than Groningen must set some alarm bells ringing in Rotterdam. In general though, Dutch Journalists expect Feyenoord to win and stated they could not name one player in the Rangers team. I would say that it is their lack of knowledge as Steven Davis missed a penalty against their national team just a few day's earlier. I have to say that one of the problems with Feyenoord is that they have really only one central striker in Nicolai Jorgensen and he is pretty much always injured. The only other specialist central striker they have is a seventeen year old kid who is still learning his trade. They have been trying many other permutations of wingers or attacking midfielders with Luis Sinisterra playing there recently as striker, but obviously a natural striker is a big part of the backbone to the team. At the back their big money defensive buy Argentinian Marcos Senasi has instead of being a rock in defence actually become a laughing stock amongst the media. They have have painted him as the big money defender who can't defend and can't pass a ball more than a few metres. Dick Advocaat defended him this week saying he will be money well spent, and to be honest he had a reasonable game against Groningen, so maybe he just had problems getting used to his different surroundings. It is my view that we cannot let Feyenoord play football. We have to be in their faces every minute of the game. Defensively they are weak and Morelos should be able to role their defenders. I would try to let them give the ball to Senasi and the put pressure on him to make a mistake. If we let them come at us then they do have players that can hurt us in Steven Berghuis, Luis Sinisterra and Sam Larsson. Obviously a forward line built for on the ground football and not for high balls into the area. With Jens Toonstra, Leroy Fer and Orkun Kökcü they have a decent midfield but certainly not world beaters. Rangers Rangers didn't play that great on Sunday but we got the three points. Playing bad and still getting the points, is the sign of a good team. If we defend as we did on Sunday though then Feyenoord could rip us apart. The Hamilton goal was a comedy of errors with our central defenders caught out of position and Barisic looking on like he had bought a ticket for the game. Thankfully our defending has been great in Europe so hopefully we can keep the clean sheet and get the win or draw that we need. One thing we can all be sure of is that Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent must, and barring injury, will play. Morelos' value to the team is of paramount importance and Sunday's game showed that Jermain Defoe when not scoring goals is a virtual passenger. Morelos can score and also hold up the ball to bring the midfield into play. I may be biased but in my eyes Steven Davis, Ryan Jack and Glen Kamara are certainties for the midfield and are good enough to dominate the Feyenoord midfield. I think Ojo will make up the wide right position. With the knowledge that Feyenoord have small, quick technical footballers and virtually no aerial threat, would it possibly be better to have Edmundson at the back other than Filip Helander? We all know Goldson won't be dropped but Edmundson certainly looks quicker than both. I doubt Gerrard will mess around with the defence to be honest. I think the Rangers team will be: A draw will probably take us through to the next round depending on the result between Young Boys v Porto. With a Porto win being the only result to stop that. One thing is certain: to be sure, two wins from the last two games would be just what the doctor ordered and give certain Dutch football pundits a remembrance of who the famous Glasgow Rangers are and our players names. C'mon the Gers.

Does that mean if Rangers should ever go bankrupt again the clubs history will be lost?

I had to laugh at the Scottish cup draw. The female presenting said. "Teams to look out for. No.9 Celtic. No? BSC Glasgow"?

You are right but it is possible to become a Rangers supporter of course. The guy from Weirs Pumps is a Rangers supporter but proffers to keep his money in his pocket.

Barisic and Goldson are an embarrassment at that Hamilton goal.

One thing is certain if Defoe doesn't score he is the waste of a jersey. Morelos did more in 10 minutes than Defoe 80 minutes.

How can the difference between us and them be 6 points when we have only lost 5 each?

What a horrible game. I think i will go and watch milk turn it will be more interesting.

I wouldn't he lowered his arm to the ball so definitely a penalty for me.

In my view he would have been anyway as I said in the preview.

They are not contending or have costs of teams in the premier league.

Filip Sebo but we would probably be better with ten men. I really liked Sebo, He was hopeless but likeable.

Name Country Position Seasons Games / Goals Johnny Hubbard South Africa Midfielder 49 / 59 238 / 106 Kai Johansen Denmark Full Back 65 / 70 238 / 9 Orjan Persson Sweden Midfielder 67 / 70 113 / 31 Robert Prytz Sweden Midfielder 82 / 85 118 / 20 Alexei Mikhailichenko Ukraine Midfielder 91 / 96 134 / 24 Craig Moore Australia Centre half 93 / 98 and 99 / 05 253 / 17 Brian Laudrup Denmark Striker 94 / 98 150 / 45 Jorg Albertz Germany Midfielder 96 / 01 182 / 82 Sergio Porrini Italy Full Back 97 / 01 133 / 7 Tony Vidmar Australia Full Back 97 / 02 159 / 11 Lorenzo Amoruso Italy Centre Half 97 / 03 224 / 24 Giovanni Van Bronckhorst Holland Midfielder 98 / 01 118 / 22 Andrei Kanchelskis Russia Midfielder 98 / 02 113 / 19 Arthur Numan Holland Full Back 98/ 03 176 / 6 Stefan Klos Germany Goalkeeper 98 / 07 298 / 0 Michael Mols Holland Striker 99 / 04 147 / 48 Bert Konterman Holland Centre Half 00/ 03 117 / 9 Ronald De Boer Holland Midfielder 00 / 04 149 / 41 Peter Lovenkrands Denmark Striker 00/ 06 182 / 54 Fernando Ricksen Holland Full Back 00 / 06 254/ 20 Shota Arveladze Georgia Striker 01 / 05 132/ 57 Dado Prso Croatia Striker 04 / 07 124 / 37 Nacho Novo Spain Striker 04 / 10 255 / 71 Brahim Hemdani Algeria Midfielder 05 / 09 108 / 2 Sasa Papic Bosnia Full Back 06 / 12 227 / 7 Madjid Bougherra Algeria Centre Half 08 / 11 113 / 5 Maurice Edu USA Midfielder 08 / 12 125 / 12 El Hadj Diouf Senegal Midfieder 11 / 11 15 / 1 Adda Djeziri Algeria striker 0 7/ 07 0 / 0 Bojan Djordjic Serbia Midfielder 05 / 05 5 / 0 Georgis Efrem Cyprus Midfielder 07 / 09 0 / 0 Dan Eggen Norway Centre half 03 / 03 0 / 0 Emerson Costa Brazil Midfielder 03 / 04 14 / 0 Jose Karl Pierre Fanfan France Centre half 05 / 06 7 / 1 Sebastian Faure France Defender Andy Faye Senegal Midfielder 07 / 08 4 / 0 Fabrice Fernandes France Midfielder 01 / 01 4 / 1 Bajram Fetai Macedonia Striker 04 / 06 1 / 0 Tore Andre Flo Norway Striker 00 / 02 53 / 29 Darius Adamczuk Polish Midfielder 99 / 02 14 / 0 Sone Aluko Nigeria Striker 11 / 12 21 / 12 Gabriel Amato Argentina Striker 98 / 00 28 / 9 Erik Bo Anderson Denmark Striker 96 / 97 23 / 15 Marvin Andrews Trinidad Defender 04 / 06 53 / 7 Anestis Argyriou Romania Defender Arnar Gretarsson Iceland Midfielder 96 / 97 0 / 0 Billy Arnison South Africa Striker 46 / 48 7 / 1 Mikel Arteta Spain Midfielder 02 / 04 50 / 12 Moses Ashikodi Nigeria Striker 06 / 07 1 / 0 Jan Bartram Denmark Fullback 88 / 88 0 / 0 Da Marcus Beasley USA Midfielder 07 / 10 29 / 4 Por Beck Iceland Striker 64 / 66 11 / 2 Alejandro Bedoya USA Midfielder 11 / 12 12 / 1 Thomas Kind Bendiksen Norway Midfielder 07 / 11 3 / 0 Henning Berg Norway Centre Half 03 / 04 20 / 0 Olivier Bernard France Full Back 05 / 06 9 / 0 Joachim Bjorklund Sweden Centre half 96 / 98 59 / 0 Carlos Bocanegra USA Centre half Frank De Boer Holland Centre half 04 / 04 15 / 2 Basile Boli France Centre half 94 / 95 28 / 2 Jerome Bonnissel France Defender 03 / 03 3 / 0 Jean Alain Boumsong France Centre half 04 / 05 28 / 2 Thomas Buffel Belgium Midfielder 05 / 08 62 / 11 Caca Brazil Striker 00 / 01 0 / 0 Claudia Caniggia Argentina Striker 01 / 03 50 / 12 Capucho Portugal Midfielder 03 / 04 22 / 5 Mervan Celik Sweden Midfielder 12 / 12 5 / 0 Lionel Charbonnier France Goalkeeper 98 / 01 18 / 0 Jesper Christiansen Denmark Goalkeeper 00 / 03 3 / 0 Jeremy Clement France Midfielder 06 / 07 19 / 0 Avi Cohen Israel Fullback 87 / 88 7 / 0 Daniel Cousin Gabon Striker 07 / 08 28 / 11 Emilson Cribari Brazil Centre half Carlos Cuellar Spain Centre half 07 / 08 36 / 4 Jean Claude Darcheville France Striker 07 / 09 38 / 13 Gennaro Gattuso Italy Midfielder 97 / 98 34 / 3 Roberto Giacomi Canada Goalkeeper 04 / 06 0 / 0 Marcus Gayle Jamaica Striker 01 / 01 4 / 0 Bonni Ginzburg Israel Midfielder 89 / 91 4 / 0 Dorin Goian Romania Centre half Nbert Guomundsson Iceland Unknown 44 / 46 Unknown Stephane Guivarch France Striker 98 / 99 14 / 5 Peter Huistra Holland Midfielder 90 / 95 125 / 22 Warren Jacmot France Defender 03 / 05 0 / 0 Nikica Jelavic Croatia Striker 10 / 12 45 / 30 Jonatan Johansson Finland Striker 97 / 00 48 / 14 Jani Kauppila Finland Midfielder 00 / 02 4 / 0 Tugay Kerimoglu Turkey Midfielder 99 / 01 42 / 4 Salim Kerkar Algeria Midfielder 10 / 12 16 / 4 Zurab Khizanishvili Georgia Centre half 03 / 06 42 / 0 Oleg kusnetsov Ukraine Centre half 90 / 94 35 / 1 Sotirios kyrgiakos Greece Centre Half 05 / 06 43 / 1 Russel Latapy Jamiaca Midfielder 01 / 03 23 / 5 Mohamed Latif Egypt Striker 35 / 36 1 / 0 Lionel Letizi France Goalkeeper 06 / 07 7 / 0 Pedro Miguel da silva Mendes Portugal Midfielder 08 / 10 39 / 3 Dragan Mladenovic Serbia Midfielder 04 / 05 7 / 0 Kevin Muscat Australia Fullback 02 / 03 22 / 0 Thomas Myhre Norway Goalkeeper 99 / 99 3 / 0 Hamed Namouchi Tunisia Midfielder 03 / 06 34 / 5 Makhtar N’diaye Senegal Midfielder 06 / 07 1 / 0 Gerhardt Neef Germany Goalkeeper 68 / 73 33 / 0 Marco Negri Italy Striker 97 / 01 30 / 32 Christian Nerlinger Germany Midfielder 01 / 04 25 / 2 Dany N’guessan France Striker 05 / 07 0 / 0 Jero Pentilla Finland Midfielder 99 / 02 4 / 0 Gordan Petric Serbia Centre Half 95 / 98 65 / 3 Antoine Ponroy France Defender 06 / 07 0 / 0 Daniel Prodan Romania Centre Half 98 / 01 0 / 0 Claudio Reyna USA Midfielder 99 / 01 64 / 10 Luigi Riccio Italy Midfielder 97 / 99 1 / 0 Julien Rodriquez France Centre Half 05 / 07 34 / 1 Jerome Rothen France Midfielder 09 / 09 4 / 0 Seb Rozental Chile Striker 97 / 98 17 / 3 Antti Niemi Finland Goalkeeper 97 / 99 13 / 0 Federico Nieto Argentina Striker 05 / 05 3 / 1 Aaron Niquez Spain Midfielder 08 / 09 3 / 0 Ludwig Norbert France Midfielder 02 / 02 0 / 0 Juan Manual Ortiz Spain Midfielder 10 / 11 10 / 0 Egil Ostenstad Norway Striker 03 / 04 11 / 0 Oleg Salenko Russia Striker 95 / 96 16 / 7 Francisco Sandaza Spain Striker Filip Sebo Slovakia Striker 06 / 07 24 / 2 Theo Snelders Holland Goalkeeper 96 / 99 13 / 0 Erik Sorensen Denmark Goalkeeper 67 / 68 30 / 0 Torn Sorensen Denmark Striker 65 / 66 12 / 3 Stale Stensaas Sweden Full Back 97 / 00 20 / 1 Karl Svensson Sweden Centre Half 06 / 07 27 / 0 Jonus Thern Sweden Midfielder 97 / 99 23 / 5 Arturs Velicka Lithuania Striker 08 / 11 8 / 4 Peter Van Vossen Holland Striker 96 / 98 22 / 5 Paulo Vanoli Italy Fullback 03 / 04 28 / 1 Gregory Vignal France Fullback 04 / 05 30 / 3 Ronald Waterreus Holland Goalkeeper 05 / 06 49 / 0 Vladimir Weiss Slovakia Midfield 10 / 11 23 / 5 Arturs Vaiculis Latvia Youth 07 /09 0 / 0 Jukka Santala Finland Youth 04 / 06 0 / 0 Lee Baxter Sweden Goalkeeper 97 / 97 0 / 0 Steven Campbell Australia Centre Half 04 / 07 0 / 0 Dean Furman South Africa Midfielder 06 / 08 0 / 0 Carl Hansson Denmark Striker 21 / 25 22 / 14 Jimmy Jackson Australia Midfielder 1894 / 1897 1906 / 1911 Unknown George Jenkins Canada Striker 33 / 45 23 / 0 John Little Canada Defender 51 / 62 275 / 1 James Lowry MacAuley Ireland Midfielder Unknown Unknown Filippo Maniero Italy Striker 2005 / 05 0 / 0 Robert Logan McDonald Ireland 28 / 39 185 / 0 Matt Mckay Australia Midfielder 11 / 12 3 / 0 David Mitchell Australia Striker 83 / 85 26 / 6 Alex Craig Ireland Full back 1904 / 1114 / 16 102 / 042 / 0 Robert Hamilton Ireland defender 27 / 33 121 / 0 Hugh O’Neill USA Midfielder 76 / 77 0 / 0 William Stanger France Midfielder 06 / 07 0 / 0 Alex Stevenson Ireland Midfielder 32 / 34 12 / 7

Friday February 14, 2020 Partick Thistle v Raith Rovers Live on BBC ALBA, kick-off 7.45pm Sunday February 16, 2020 Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Rangers Colts Live on BBC ALBA, kick-off 4.10pm Notes Extra time and penalties, if required, will decide the outcome if scores are level after 90 minutes. The Tunnock's Caramel Wafer Cup final is due to be played on the weekend of March 28/29

Just the females. Would also increase gates?

Gerry Neef (DE) Kai Johanson (DEN) Lorenzo Ameruso (Italy) Marvin Andrews (Trin) sasa Papac (Bosnia) Brahim Hemdani (Algeria) Fernando Ricksen (NL) Maurice Edu (USA) El Hadj Dioef (Senegal) Dado Prso (Croatia) Filip Sebo (slovakia)

Hamilton v Rangers Match preview. Yes! Yes! Yes! The international breaks are being put in cold storage until March. From now until March it is wall to wall club football. Well except for that stupid idiot idea of having a winter stop, It just means taking 3 weeks off and then having to play a backlog of games in a crushed schedule later date.We are now entering into the meaty section of the competition. This is the time when we get down to the nitty gritty where league's are lost or won. Points thrown away at this stage could be lethal. The last time we came away from the international break we threw the top place in the league away with a poor performance against Hearts. Yes we were bullied but as the boss Stevie Gerrard would say “we have to find a way round whatever the opposition throws at us.” Steven Gerrard and Filip Helander intimated that none of the Internationalists were carrying any injuries and he has a full squad of players to pick from. Jordon Jones has returned to training but Sunday will be too early for him and Steven said that he would expect him to be ready for selection in about ten days time. We travel through to Hamilton to the Hope CBD Stadium, the home of Hamilton Academicals. The last time we played Hamilton the gaffer played Jermaine Defoe up front and he kindly repaid him with a hat-trick. Goldson and Barisic notched the other two goals with Borna treating us to one of his signature free-kicks hitting the ball over the wall and into the top corner of the net. The team that day was: McGregor; Tavernier, Goldson, Edmundson, Barisic, Davis (Murphy 64), Kamara, Arfield (Polster 64), Ojo (Morelos 73), Defoe, Stewart With Alfie only returning from a long Journey on Saturday and after taking part in two games, I actually think Gerrard will go for Defoe again. He may pick the exact same team again with possibly Scott Arefield, dropping out for Ryan Kent as Arfield also had a long Journey, returning from America where his national team, Canada, took a 4-1 hiding from the Americans. Steven Davis may also be rested as he played in two extremely difficult games against the Netherlands and Germany. Joe Aribo could be given that midfield Berth. Hamilton are currently in the tenth place in the league on equal points with Hearts. More worrying for them is that they are only one point in front of second bottom St Johnstone and three points in front of bottom placed St Mirren. While St Johnstone have a worse goal difference St Mirren have a better goal difference. With St Johnstone having a home game against Aberdeen and St Mirren at home to Ross county a defeat to Rangers could see them plunge to the bottom of the league if the other two results go against them. I would imagine that fact will make them keep the game as tight as possible. The referee for the day is Steven McLean 'with Dougie Potter, Drew Kirkland running the line and the Fourth Official is Gavin Ross. Unfortunately playing Hamilton in Hamilton means another run-out on one of those horrible plastic pitches. What a shame the SPFL didn't take the Dutch example and propose to kick them out. I take it that will rule out Jamie Murphy getting a place on the bench. After beating them 5-0 the last time we finished that day by climbing to the top of the League after a Celtic defeat at Livingstone so let's hope Rangers and Livingston can give us a repeat performance and we get back where we belong. You could say hoping at the Hope. I think the team will be. McGregor Tavernier Goldson Edmundson Barisic Jack Kamara Aribo Stewart Defoe Kent C'mon the Gers!!!!

Great this is what I was waiting for to do the Match preview. It will be up shortly.

I want to be clear that my judgement is not based on an incident but my own thoughts.

1 and 2 for me. Ban for life and pass on to the police. Camera's or spotters are ok for me. I would grass on anyone doing it as my safety is at stake.

I can't get the link to work.?