Day of judgement?
Paul Le Guen’s Rangers tonight enter the lion’s den for perhaps the first time this season.
They will face Serie A high-flyers Livorno at the Armando Picchi in Tuscany, and the notion that the beleaguered side and their boss are under pressure would be understating the truth ever so slightly.
Since the travesty of Saturday’s dismal defeat at home to ICT, the vultures have been circling around Ibrox, gleefully swooping in on any hint of scraps to feed on, and when news emerged of the bust-up between Le Guen and Bardsley, the vultures found themselves gorged, fit to burst with the feast of catastrophe they were leeching off.
Indeed, things, in many ways, could not presently be worse. No bear is content with this, eager as we are to at least witness progress if not all-out success for the time being. But with every new semblance of disarray comes despair.
In today’s press Le Guen was more than happy to confirm Letizi’s place in goal, as if to suggest defiance in the face of adversity. He is after all, the boss, and what he says goes.
This arguable arrogance was confirmed when he would not confirm if Svensson would start; why reveal one player if you will not reveal another. Unless, that is, his agenda for starting Letizi differs for his motive behind the choosing of other players.
Turning back to the game itself, Rangers badly, badly need a performance. Livorno are 6th and have lost the one game all season. And with one of Serie A’s form strikers in Lucarelli in their ranks, are abject favourites to come out of this one with 3 points. Now, more than ever, Rangers require to forget about the shambolic start to the season and the less than ideal preparation for this match in particular, and stand up and be counted.
Form would suggest we have little chance, and Le Guen’s stubborn tactics would seem to back this pessimism up, but if the players can rally together then maybe, just maybe, we could sneak a lucky point from this game.
From a personal point of view I give Rangers no chance whatsoever, but this article is not about my opinion.
All I can say is best of luck for tonight and please prove me horribly, horribly wrong.
They will face Serie A high-flyers Livorno at the Armando Picchi in Tuscany, and the notion that the beleaguered side and their boss are under pressure would be understating the truth ever so slightly.
Since the travesty of Saturday’s dismal defeat at home to ICT, the vultures have been circling around Ibrox, gleefully swooping in on any hint of scraps to feed on, and when news emerged of the bust-up between Le Guen and Bardsley, the vultures found themselves gorged, fit to burst with the feast of catastrophe they were leeching off.
Indeed, things, in many ways, could not presently be worse. No bear is content with this, eager as we are to at least witness progress if not all-out success for the time being. But with every new semblance of disarray comes despair.
In today’s press Le Guen was more than happy to confirm Letizi’s place in goal, as if to suggest defiance in the face of adversity. He is after all, the boss, and what he says goes.
This arguable arrogance was confirmed when he would not confirm if Svensson would start; why reveal one player if you will not reveal another. Unless, that is, his agenda for starting Letizi differs for his motive behind the choosing of other players.
Turning back to the game itself, Rangers badly, badly need a performance. Livorno are 6th and have lost the one game all season. And with one of Serie A’s form strikers in Lucarelli in their ranks, are abject favourites to come out of this one with 3 points. Now, more than ever, Rangers require to forget about the shambolic start to the season and the less than ideal preparation for this match in particular, and stand up and be counted.
Form would suggest we have little chance, and Le Guen’s stubborn tactics would seem to back this pessimism up, but if the players can rally together then maybe, just maybe, we could sneak a lucky point from this game.
From a personal point of view I give Rangers no chance whatsoever, but this article is not about my opinion.
All I can say is best of luck for tonight and please prove me horribly, horribly wrong.
posted by RangersMedia @ 12:52 PM
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