Our man assesses the picture at Ibrox after yet another derby defeat left their title dream in tatters.
They may even believe they can make up for losing the league title by beating Celtic to the Scottish Cup at Hampden in less than a fortnight’s time without realising the dangerous levels of their own delusion. Who knows? Some of them may even be clinging to the misplaced belief that Brendan Rodgers and his players might collapse in spectacular fashion by failing to take a single point from their final two top flight fixtures against Kilmarnock and St Mirren.
When they were presented with one last redemption shot, they had neither the wherewithal nor the courage required to reach out and grab it. Instead, they fulfilled the familiar role of being sayers to Celtic’s doers with a performance that was no more than a passive, token effort. By contrast, Rangers have a squad festooned with shoulder shruggers whose body language screams, ‘Can’t someone else do it?’. Celtic’s opening goal was a case in point. It was McGregor who took it upon himself to surge forward down the right flank, leaving Tom Lawrence in his slipstream.
James Tavernier should have helped his team out by doing something to shut down Diazen Maeda but the very sight of this Japanese speedball tends to scramble the senses of the Rangers skipper. Tavernier did little more than invite the winger to fire a cross into the Rangers box. Having belatedly rushed into the scene Lundstram failed to realise that Hatate had checked out and, in his befuddlement, he succeeded in poking the ball into the back of his own net.
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