Rangers through to UEFA Cup quarters
By: Ian Rose | March 13th, 2008Allan McGregor put in an absolutely stellar performance in today’s match with Werder Bremen, letting a single goal from Diego through, and stopping a Werder offensive onslaught that took 35 shots and 18 corners. Rangers took four shots. Four. It’s rare that a keeper shines so brightly, in the midst of such a lackluster performance from his teammates. Werder, in truth, probably deserved to make this 2-0, and thus force extra time. They were consistent and pressing in attack, but McGregor stopped them nearly every time, and it took a brilliant shot from Diego to beat him.
Great job to Allan McGregor, if not to the rest of Rangers, for surviving and moving on, not only for themselves, but for Scotland. They are the lone SPL team left in Europe, and so I hope they can continue on as far as possible. Eventually, though, they’ll have to have some real attacking spirit. Today they really did survive – that’s the best word for it.
This is the first UEFA Cup quarterfinal appearance ever for Rangers, and the last time a Scottish side was in the quarters was in 2004, when Celtic lost to Villareal 3-1 on aggregate. Good luck to Rangers for a good draw tomorrow and hopefully we’ll see a bit more of what this team can do, rather than just the absolute brilliance of their keeper.
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I think a Celtic team did decently in 2003 in the Weffa Cup too…
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Absolutely. I’ll do you one better – Celtic should have won in 2003. Hopefully (for me, probably not for you), Rangers can do the same or one better. But they’re doing it really ugly.
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Taking off my green and white glasses, honestly they have a shot at getting past Sporting, but they’ll probably meet their end with PSV (assuming they make it through).
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