Rangers v Aris Limassol

Mark Atkinson reports from Ibrox after Rangers' 1-1 draw with Aris.

Transcript

00:00 Good evening from a very, very cold Ibrox where it has finished. Rangers 1 Arras Limassol

00:07 1 in the Europa League. A strange evening here in Govan because although Rangers have

00:13 secured European football beyond Christmas, we don't know yet if it's going to be the

00:19 Europa League or the Europa Conference League and that's because they failed to take care

00:23 of their visitors here. A one-all draw in the end. Arras took the lead for a good goal

00:27 from Shefi Babika. Rangers, who are very poor throughout, did get an equaliser five minutes

00:32 in the second half through substitute Ross McCausland to make it one-all. At that point

00:37 you thought they might go and kick on and get the victory but in the end it was a really

00:40 stodgy, sluggish performance from Philippe Clément's team. He'll be very disappointed

00:44 with how his players performed on the night and because Sparta Prague got a surprise one-all,

00:51 one-nil win against Real Betis in the Czech capital, they can now take advantage of Rangers

00:57 slipping up in Seville on the final matchday in two weeks' time by beating Arras. If that

01:02 was to happen, if Prague do win against Arras, then Rangers would need to win against Betis

01:07 to secure a top spot and also get through into the final stages of the Europa League.

01:13 It was definitely a hugely frustrating night for Rangers. We've had so many underwhelming

01:19 performances. James Tavernier extremely poor at the right back. They missed Conor Gouldson

01:23 at centre-half along with Leon Balotelli in attack. They were very weak. Lots to ponder

01:28 for Philippe Clément and have a unique match against Seville and it means that their match

01:32 against Betis, three days before the cup final against Aberdeen, now takes on Arras in the

01:37 final. It finished here at five blocks. Rangers won, Arras won.

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