Rangers have only themselves to blame. Their approach to the game was very timid and conservative. With all due respect to Scottish football, the Rangers/Celtic highlights I see on TV (i.e. Old Firm) vs. the rest of the SPL teams makes them look like masters playing a bunch of kids off the park. Such is the superiority of Old Firm sides in SPL that either one of them wins the SPL with a huge margin between them and the eventual 3rd place. The Old Firm enjoy the occasional win here and there in Europe, but they seldom ever pose themselves as potential winners of a competition.
It was Rangers’ negative tactics vs. the Italian side Fiorentina (a team from a country notorious for it’s defenders, mind you two from Fiorentina Gamberini/Dainelli have worn the Azzurri shirt before!!) – which won them the eventual tie.
Andrey Arshavin put on a commanding performance. He’s such a great team player, and overall I enjoyed watching Zenit more than Ranger’s clueless and uncreative approach to the game. Rangers even had like 3 or 4 strikers towards the end of the match, and the only thing they did come up with was Nacho Novo’s chance which he ballooned wide.
Perhaps I’m being harsh, but I really thought Rangers lacked any kind of quality to win this game. I mean come on, they could do better than Darcheville…

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