Popular Post buster. 4,808 Posted November 7, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 7, 2019 Our record against Portuguese clubs is better than you might think. It contrasts sharply to our record against their Iberian neighbours, the Spanish. I had a glance at the record yesterday and we won all of our first five Home games against Sporting '71, Porto '83, Boavista '86, Maritimo '04 and Porto '05. Since then, we have drawn the Ibrox encounter with Sporting both in '08 and 2011. Even better we got through in six out of those 7 ties, including the CL group of 2005. The only time they had success against us was back in 1983 when we were put out on Away goals. Ties have tended to be close. Three of the seven were settled on away goals and one on penalties. One of those away goal wins was the famous occasion en route to the ECWC success of 1972 when Willie Waddell had to show the referee the rule book. You could say that this is a historic record and it has nothing to do with tonight and although you'd be right to say that,...I've found these type of tendencies often do have relevance. When we got Danish opposition in the qualifying round this summer, a quick look at previous encounters showed three previous European ties against Danish teams and that we'd never been beaten (5 wins and 1 draw), Lyngby '92, Herfolge 2000 & Copenhagan in '03. What happened against Midtjylland (league leaders in a country with a higher co-efficient than Scotland) ? As you all know we won both home and away scoring 7 goals over the tie .....But against lowly Progres, how many away goals did we score ?...Same as two years ago, zero. We find it very difficult to beat Spanish teams but always (4 games) draw against Villareal....bla bla Rangers results in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangers_F.C._in_European_football 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,409 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Porto frontman Moussa Marega did not travel with the squad and will be replaced by Cameroonian striker Vincent Aboubakar, who has not played a single Europa League game or league match this season. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrards-bluff-wont-fool-20827472 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 2 minutes ago, ian1964 said: Porto frontman Moussa Marega did not travel with the squad and will be replaced by Cameroonian striker Vincent Aboubakar, who has not played a single Europa League game or league match this season. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrards-bluff-wont-fool-20827472 Is he the Cameroonian Uche Ikpeazu (style) or Steven Naismith (appearence record) ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uilleam 5,409 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) 52 minutes ago, buster. said: Is he the Cameroonian Uche Ikpeazu (style) or Steven Naismith (appearence record) ? Who cares? El Buffalo no toma mierda I don't know what he does to the Hertz, but by God, he frightens me Edited November 7, 2019 by Uilleam 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 3 minutes ago, Frankie said: Looks like the starting XI is becoming slightly less difficult to predict. I'd be tempted to have Aribo start instead of Ojo. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, buster. said: Looks like the starting XI is becoming slightly less difficult to predict. I'd be tempted to have Aribo start instead of Ojo. Yep, plenty of good options. Usually at Ibrox the manager favours Arfield in a deeper role instead of Kamara but I suspect the opposition's quality may deter that this evening; initially at least. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,409 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 14 minutes ago, Frankie said: I think Arfield will replace Ojo in that line up 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,145 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 1 minute ago, ian1964 said: I think Arfield will replace Ojo in that line up It certainly wouldn't surprise me but we got a lot of joy in Portugal via our wide men because Porto's full backs push up so high so Ojo may be preferred to make the most of any space on the counter. Will depend on how the manager sees Porto playing - will they look to sit a bit deeper or play their natural game? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 6 minutes ago, Frankie said: Yep, plenty of good options. Usually at Ibrox the manager favours Arfield in a deeper role instead of Kamara but I suspect the opposition's quality may deter that this evening; initially at least. I think Aribo playing further forward is the type of player who could make a real difference is this type of match and his form seems to have picked-up, in contrast to Arfield. I'd also favour giving Aribo the European stage to shine and 'add value', opposed to an inconsistent Ojo (although the goal against Feyenoord might hold sway in managers thinking). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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