*** Official NK Maribor vs Rangers Match Thread***

[RFCRobertson 10,515]

                

 

UEFA Europa League
Third Qualifying round
2nd leg

NK Maribor vs Rangers FC
(1-3)

Venue: Ljudski Vrt (Slovenia)
Date: Thu 16th of Augest
Kick-off: 19:15 (7:15pm) GMT
                 20:15 (8:15pm) CEST
Live on: Premier Sports
Recent Forms:
Rangers: WWDDW
Maribor: WLWWD
 

Europa League:

Spoiler

Qualifying round 1
Rangers FC vs FK Shkupi 2-0
FK Shkupi vs Rangers FC 0-0

Rangers FC through on a 2-0 Aggregate 

Qualifying round 2
NK Osijek vs Rangers FC 0-1
Rangers FC vs NK Osijek 1-1

Rangers FC Through on a 2-1 Aggregate

Qualifying round 3
Rangers FC vs NK Maribor 3-1
 

Team News:

• John Flanagan is suspended for this match.
• Borna Barisic can't be registered with us for the EL until the group stage.
• Wallace and Rossiter are suspected to miss due to injuries.
• Steven Gerrad is confident that Ryan Jack, Scott Arfield and Lassana Coulibaly.

 

Our European adventures continue, taking us to Slovenia where we take on Maribor in Maribor for the 2nd leg. The famous lead 3-1 on aggregate however following the hosts 5-0 win over Gorica, they will no doubt come out the traps to meet the queens 11 head on in a bid to continue their campaign.For me the Gers would do well to weather the storm, steal an away goal and shut up shop to deny the Slovenians from scoring again, which will take us further into Europa to meet either UFA or Progres niderkorn, a game which is currently 2-1 in favour of UFA but will be decided in Luxembourg.

1-1 on the night, 4-2 on Aggregate

Lets Go!

[Drunk and disorderly. 7,416]

0-1 to us. Morelos to score.

[Courtyard Bear 41,357]

1-1 and on we march. 

[Ryju84 3,170]

Gerrard said yesterday that at half time he said "keep a clean sheet and we win".

I guess this will be his team talk this week.

 

[MikeBlue 132]

It'll be classic Liverpool away tie tactics without a doubt.  First 20 minutes is just about quieting the crowd and basically shutting the game down as much as possible.

Long ball to Morelos and another penalty on 37 minutes will do for me

[jintybear 7,231]

@RFCRobertson Your match day threads haven't half gone downhill! I remember when you used to put effort into them. 

[RFCRobertson 10,515]

9 minutes ago, jintybear said:

@RFCRobertson Your match day threads haven't half gone downhill! I remember when you used to put effort into them. 

Give it time ?

[Copland bear 7,426]

It's on premier sports also 

[ShanksRFC 2,854]

Anyone heard anything about Coulibally? He looked as if he went off injured at the end yesterday.

[PromDeAnglais 2,069]

Flanagan suspended and Barisic cup tied, Jack and Coulibaly big doubts, Dorrans, Rossiter and Wallace still nowhere near fit?

Hodson and Halliday could well be in contention to start this game. 

[Colin Traive 10,696]

McGregor

Tavernier

Goldson

Katic

Halliday (I know, I know)

Coulibaly

Jack

Arfield

Ejaria

Kent

Morelos

Subs: Fod, Hodson, McCrorie, Middleton, Sadiq, Murphy, Candieas 

[Mojo84 175]

Halliday will definitely start, that's why he was given game time yesterday. 

[StewGer 390]

7:15 kick off. Just a wee heads up ?

[RFCRobertson 10,515]

1 hour ago, jintybear said:

@RFCRobertson Your match day threads haven't half gone downhill! I remember when you used to put effort into them. 

There you go Jinty and @cushynumber

[Jeffrey 28,734]

To Baku we're on our way

[FSM 20,886]

On the field, we win 0-1.

Off the field, we win 0-2 in stabbings.

[giffnockger 4,820]

Fucking buzzing heading to Maribor tomorrow morning, taxi booked for 4am, we're on our wayyyyyyyy

[Vanoli 3,568]

We're right up against it if Coulibaly and Jack don't make it, bad enough with Halliday at left back. Need some big performances. Coming through the fire in situations like this can do a hell of a lot for togetherness and belief within a squad, will be a big result if we see it out. 

[Bears r us 22,431]

Hopefully Coulibaly is OK and I think Jack has a good chance of being fit as well. Optimistic loyal. 

[psb07158 20,027]

They won 5-0 yesterday

Cannot give them a sniff at the start of this game

[Essandoh 11,100]

7 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

They won 5-0 yesterday

Cannot give them a sniff at the start of this game

They won 5-2 the weekend before the 1st leg. Having said that, I’m sure they’ll be a different animal at home.

[Rum Ham 1,677]

2 hours ago, MikeBlue said:

It'll be classic Liverpool away tie tactics without a doubt.  First 20 minutes is just about quieting the crowd and basically shutting the game down as much as possible.

Long ball to Morelos and another penalty on 37 minutes will do for me

7-0 away to Maribor for us then?

[Goianegra 3,168]

Halliday was fine at the weekend. I'm sure we'll have enough to see this through. 

[King_gazza 1,065]

A few injuries, suspensions and our squad is looking thin especially in CM.

Definitely need 2/3 signings still

[cushynumber 25,175]

2 hours ago, RFCRobertson said:

There you go Jinty and @cushynumber

aye thats  better ?