Motherwell blitz Rangers to take big advantage into play-off second leg
Motherwell care little for whether Scottish football needs Authentic Prada Handbags Online Rangers back in the top flight or not. The debate over the Ibrox club’s worth to the national game has certainly lasted the course – even if the armageddon predicted after their demise three years ago never quite came to pass. But whatever the answer, it looks as if the discussion will be pondered for at least another season.
Stuart McCall, who started the season as Motherwell manager, described a play-off final meeting with his former club as a “nightmare,” and so it proved to Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Sale Uk click cg be. The past three years have been one big recovery job for Rangers, but now they are tasked with the biggest comeback of all. It would have been even more daunting had it not been for Darren McGregor’s late header, which gives Rangers at least something to cling to at Fir Park.
“I’m hugely disappointed,” said McCall. “That’s as poor as we have been in possession of the ball when I’ve been at the club. I’m really frustrated that tonight, of all the games, too many of us had off nights. But we’ll look at last season’s Hibs-Hamilton scenario [when Hamilton came back from a 2-0 first leg defeat]. The first goal on Sunday will be crucial, and it’s hugely important that we get that.”
Against Hibernian, who were seen off 2-1 on aggregate in the Authentic Prada Handbags Usa semi-final, Rangers were adjudged by some to have been fortunate, taking what scant chances were created against a superior, Black Prada Bag Mission Impossible ball-playing side. Against Motherwell, however, McCall’s side faced a different proposition – with the visitors willing to sit deep and absorb in a way that Hibs, and even Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Uk Sale quarter-finalists Queen of the South, were not. “We Authentic Prada Outlet Uk came with a game-plan,” admitted Ian Baraclough, the manager who was keen to stress that the job is not yet done for his side. “We worked on the shape, drawing them on, and we knew that we could counter at pace. We did that fantastically well and could have actually have had one or two more.”
Rangers had chances before Motherwell took a grip of the contest. Kenny Miller came within inches of a dazzling opener after 12 minutes and Nicky Law passed up a good opportunity soon after. Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Clothing Uk But for all their possession, Motherwell claimed the lead Black Prada Bag Mission Impossible when Lee Erwin’s shot deflected in off Lee Wallace. Biggest Prada Store In London Stephen McManus added a second before the break, glancing home an in-swinging Marvin Johnson free-kick.
At 2-0 down the Great Escape, adopted as a Rangers anthem following their financial meltdown and subsequent demotion, played at the interval was particularly apt.
There was to be no Steve McQueen-esque leap over the prison fence, though. Within two minutes of the restart Motherwell extended their lead when Lionel Ainsworth finished off an opportunistic counterattacking move.
As they have for much of the campaign, Rangers appeared a broken team, but Authentic Prada Handbags Uk they gave themselves a lifeline with just seven minutes left, when McGregor header’s found the top corner from a Law corner kick. “We’ll play a different way on Sunday,” said McCall. “If this had been a cup final then we would be out of it, but we still have a second chance.”