Glasgow Rangers as soon as once more didn’t step up after they wanted to within the Previous Agency as they had been overwhelmed 3-0 at Parkhead within the Scottish Premiership on Sunday.
Head coach Philippe Clement has now misplaced 4 and drawn one in every of his 5 encounters with Celtic since he arrived on the membership final yr, which illustrates the gulf between the 2 sides at the moment.
Targets from Daizen Maeda and Kyogo Furuhashi put the hosts in management within the first half, earlier than Callum McGregor struck, through a deflection from Dujon Sterling, a 3rd from distance within the second 45.
It was a horrible afternoon for the Gers throughout Glasgow and, specifically, for captain James Tavernier, who struggled as soon as once more within the Previous Agency.
James Tavernier’s struggles
The English full-back made the worst potential begin to a league assembly between the 2 sides in April when his sluggish clearance rebounded off Maeda to present Celtic the lead inside one minute again in April.
This time, it took till the seventeenth minute for the Japan worldwide to take advantage of Tavernier’s lacklustre defensive work, as he stole a march on the defender to nip throughout him and fireplace within the opener from Alistair Johnston’s pull-back.
Tavernier did make three tackles and two interceptions throughout the match and received seven of his 13 duels, however that didn’t make up for his important error for Maeda’s opener.
The skipper was additionally lucky to not see a positional mistake pounced upon when Nicolas Kuhn weaved a go by way of to seek out Reo Hatate in acres of house the place Tavernier ought to have been, just for the midfielder to fireside excessive and vast from six yards out.
Cyriel Dessers’ Previous Agency problem
Cyriel Dessers, who was handed a match score of three/10 by GlasgowWorld’s Lewis Anderson, was criticised by former Gers striker Billy Dodds on BBC Sportsound, because the ex-forward stated that the Nigeria worldwide’s efforts had been “not ok”.
He was even worse than Tavernier, who a minimum of created three possibilities and one ‘large probability’ for his teammates, because the attacker struggled out and in of possession.
The previous Cremonese quantity 9 has now scored one objective in six appearances towards Celtic within the Previous Agency clashes, while Kyogo has managed eight targets in 15 video games towards Rangers. That illustrates the distinction in high quality between the strikers of the 2 sides.
|
Vs Celtic |
Cyriel Dessers |
|---|---|
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Minutes performed |
90 |
|
Pictures |
2 |
|
Targets |
0 |
|
Key passes |
1 |
|
Duels received |
2/9 |
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Misplaced possession |
15x |
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Stats through Sofascore |
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As you possibly can see within the desk above, Dessers made little influence on the prime finish of the pitch, with zero targets and just one probability created, and was dominated off the ball.
Tavernier, a minimum of, created one ‘large probability’ for the staff and appeared to make issues occur within the ultimate third, whereas, the striker provided little or no.
Dessers was additionally a light-weight when Rangers wanted him to carry the ball up and alleviate strain, as he misplaced a whopping seven of his 9 duels, and these statistics present that he was nowhere close to ok in or out of possession.
