Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/rangers-must-take-confidence-from-celtic-battle-to-win-the-war/
Rangers may well have lost the battle against Celtic on Sunday, but if the performance proves anything, it’s that they’ve far from lost the war. Rangers dominated Old Firm rivals Celtic from start to finish and save from some carelessness in front of goal and an immense goalkeeping performance from Fraser Forster, we’d have been…
Celtic did the same thing at Ibrox earlier in the season and we couldnt handle it , they broke the play up with fouls , they went down when they werent hurt and just stopped any flow to the game.The difference on Sunday was that we battered them , opened them up , created chances and didn`t let it put us off our game .People are criticising Alfie but he had 5 attempts well saved by Forster who played out of his skin and had two more than went close .We have to take inspiration from the way we outplayed them going forward and the fact that Forrest , Christie , Elyounoussi and Morgan never got a kick .
Same performance again at the piggory and we will win especially if Alfie gets a bit more support in attack from the likes of Kent and Aribo .
We played fantastic football at halftime Lennon must have been handing around a picture of a ball to remind his players what it looked like, I thought Brexit would have been finished by the time Celtic got in our penalty area. We have every reason to be confident we play with that commitment on Thursday goals will come.
To be honest, I thought Foster had a decent game, even a good one. But only his save from Jack was really classy. So I didn’t see the works shattering performance some are seeing.
Of course, I am used to McGregor so maybe it just takes a lot more to impress me:-)
As wlgers notes, Alfredo was not well supported by Kent and Aribo. Bit more zip from them, or Stewart, and we may have had our breakthrough.
Incidentally, everyone is going on about an offside which was pretty tight and hard to see first time. But few mention the clear daylight between Foster and the goalline when the penalty was struck.
Should have been a card and a retake