Sunday’s 3-0 win against St Mirren continued to highlight two key areas of improvement within the Rangers team. Decision making in the final third and a central midfielder with the ability to progress the ball forward. It’s important to state at this point that a creative passer and a good Read more…
Football is back! Rangers have played their first game – a 2-1 friendly victory against Hamilton – since Bayer Leverkusen came to Ibrox on the 12th March. 120 days had elapsed between those games, the longest period between a game in (most fans) living memory. So, with the first pre-season Read more…
This is the second article in this series which aims to describe how Rangers set up tactically. If you haven’t read the first installment which introduced Rangers 2-3-4-1 formation, you can do so here. In this article I’m going to analyse Rangers centre backs tactical function within this formation. I’ll also Read more…
There is a weird feeling within the support at the minute, a mix of dread and anxiety with supporters frantically looking for patterns or suggesting ‘rip it up and start again’ tactical plans in a bid to get us back on an even keel. Rangers have dropped 5 points from Read more…
“Ladies & Gentleman, England will be playing 4-4-fucking-2” (Mike Basset, England manager) A line from possibly the best England Manager never to have won the World Cup, but its an interesting one as it shows how tactics & formation have evolved throughout the last 20 years. Tactical formations are an Read more…
Alfredo Morelos has been leaving Rangers for the last 4 transfer windows, ever since the January 2018 Chinese bid fiasco. Where and when he will go has been a hot topic of debate but the general acknowledgement is that finally, this summer will be the window he moves on from Read more…