Why Rangers are now under more pressure for St Mirren and Aberdeen after 'mega' moment
Yesterday at 04:36 AM
Rangers lifted a degree of the pressure off their shoulders with a convincing win over FCSB on Thursday night.
Gers were rampant in clocking up a 4-0 scoreline against the Romanians with another special performance saved for the Europa League.
Vaclav Cerny was particularly impressive as Rangers News rated him 10/10 while two of his teammates earned scores of nine, with a few eights sprinkled in.
But there is still work to do for Phillipe Clement and his players, especially domestically as they look to catch up on Celtic and Aberdeen.
It starts with St Mirren at home today before a monumental trip up to Pittodrie midweek.
The Aberdeen moment that hikes the pressure on Rangers
As mentioned, that FCSB result lifts some of the pressure. But only some.
A slip up today against an out of form side would been seen as a disaster while there is a lot riding on that Aberdeen game as defeat could open up a gap that should be unthinkable.
Unfortunately, the Dons just don’t seem to be going away. Their current run of fixtures was deemed their first true test of the season and they’ve now played the first two of those against Celtic and Dundee United.
They proved their mettle in the first, coming back from two down to earn a point at Parkhead. United gave them a game yesterday but they once again found a way through, with Peter Ambrose scoring an 84th-minute winner just when it looked like they may drop more points.
Premier Sports commentator Rory Hamilton reckoned that moment piled the pressure on Celtic at the top of the table, but Michael Stewart preferred to focus on Rangers and what it means at Ibrox.
He responded to his colleague’s question: “I’ll tell you what else it does, if Aberdeen get the three points here, it puts mega pressure on Rangers tomorrow (against St Mirren on Sunday) followed up Wednesday night at Pittodrie. It adds a real dynamic to the league campaign, as a whole, and to that fixture on Wednesday.”
The pressure is certainly on for Rangers
As mentioned, more dropped points at home to St Mirren today is pretty much unthinkable and would ramp the pressure on Philippe Clement.
Draw or lose that and the same against Aberdeen and we just know the way the narrative swings.
Even a win today and allowing the Dons to pull away after that Pittodrie clash would create problems.
So we’ll give Stewart that one, the pressure is definitely on.
