*****The Official Real Betis v Rangers Match Thread*****

[G.E.C. 18,777]

Thursday at 2000 live on TNT.

Butland; Tavernier, Goldson, Souttar, Sterling; Lundstram, Cifuentes; McCausland, Cantwell, Sima; Dessers

Betis drew 1-1 today with Madrid.

[STEPPS BOY 73,923]

I’d be resting Sima and Cantwell for Hampden next Sunday.

That’s the more important game.

[Scottywellhousetb 50,487]

Not that arsed about this tbh, absolutely more focused on Sunday, will watch hoping we win of course but really couldn't give a fuck about Europe until we sort our shit domestically. 

[Swagger 7,967]

10 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said:

I’d be resting Sima and Cantwell for Hampden next Sunday.

That’s the more important game.

Everything should be geared towards Sun.  Blew the chance against Aris. 
Nothing silly in Spain - we need that league cup 

[.Williamson. 82,224]

Manager will rightly play the strongest team possible for this. Don’t mind dropping into the conference league but think it’s moronic not at least giving this a go, Aberdeen are shite

[born a blue nose 90,784]

Fuck talking about resting any players. Strongest team possible for both games. 

Hate how obsessed some are over resting professional athletes, were not even half way through the season. 

Other than having a rotational system a can't think of any top teams having this type of issue. 

I'll bet our injury list has a bit of a say on the resting players mentality. 

[Rangers_no1 32,474]

2 minutes ago, born a blue nose said:

Fuck talking about resting any players. Strongest team possible for both games. 

Hate how obsessed some are over resting professional athletes, were not even half way through the season. 

Other than having a rotational system a can't think of any top teams having this type of issue. 

I'll bet our injury list has a bit of a say on the resting players mentality. 

This is a huge game, can't believe some are downplaying it mate.

[Bad Robot 21,150]

the 1-1 highlights you tube link world if anyone is interested but an away win but we’ll need to keep the concentration until every whistle as they had two good chances today right at the death. Not scared to shoot from outside the box either plus their crowd will be up for it so hopefully we silence them.

[Bad Robot 21,150]

Absolutely massive and what a boost in confidence for Sunday should we top that group on Thursday night 🙏 

[SkylineBlue 23,365]

1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

Manager will rightly play the strongest team possible for this. Don’t mind dropping into the conference league but think it’s moronic not at least giving this a go, Aberdeen are shite

They are, but we still haven't been able to beat them this season. And that's without the pressure of a cup on the line.

[.Williamson. 82,224]

1 minute ago, SkylineBlue said:

They are, but we still haven't been able to beat them this season. And that's without the pressure of a cup on the line.

It’s fine, it’ll all be fine 

[Hadron Collider 30,887]

2 hours ago, G.E.C. said:

Thursday at 2000 live on TNT.

Butland; Tavernier, Goldson, Souttar, Sterling; Lundstram, Cifuentes; McCausland, Cantwell, Sima; Dessers

Betis drew 1-1 today with Madrid.

Any VAR involved my man?

[wully 47,380]

0-4.

[psb07158 33,274]

Give it a go for 60 mins. If we’re losing then fuck it, get the main attackers and midfielders off.

[SkylineBlue 23,365]

1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

It’s fine, it’ll all be fine 

It goes without saying that I really hope you're right. 

[Smell the hotdog 4,015]

2 hours ago, Rangers_no1 said:

This is a huge game, can't believe some are downplaying it mate.

Far bigger game is Sunday, Europa to Conference money is minimal. Madrid went there today and got a draw, we ain’t getting fuck all with this shite squad.

Rest them up and make sure we win it on Sunday.

[G.E.C. 18,777]

1 hour ago, Hadron Collider said:

Any VAR involved my man?

Not sure I’ve been watching Home Alone

[Swagger 7,967]

1 hour ago, Smell the hotdog said:

Far bigger game is Sunday, Europa to Conference money is minimal. Madrid went there today and got a draw, we ain’t getting fuck all with this shite squad.

Rest them up and make sure we win it on Sunday.

Yep. The fact is we should already be qualified but fucked it against Aris. 
 Thursday doesn’t matter. Sunday is huge for us. 

[ayro 3,001]

Butland

Tav Goldson Souttar Barisic

Lundstram Cifuentes 

Cantwell

McCausland Dessers Sima

Looking forward to the trip, hope we can get the W but need to balance the squad for the cup final.

[ayrshireranger 8,084]

Sterling in midfield imo rather than Cifu. Would imo be a much more solid DM.

[CR3 12,687]

I’ve almost resigned to the conference league at this point but only because I would rather that if it meant winning the first trophy available this season than knock our pans in Betis and risk failure. I could foresee that with the current injury woes and mentality of some of the players, it’s happened all too regularly I’m afraid so that’s where I’m at. 

[TamCoopz 19,605]

8 minutes ago, CR3 said:

I’ve almost resigned to the conference league at this point but only because I would rather that if it meant winning the first trophy available this season than knock our pans in Betis and risk failure. I could foresee that with the current injury woes and mentality of some of the players, it’s happened all too regularly I’m afraid so that’s where I’m at. 

@BlueVanguardis due chucking his love for Rangers because he hates var, so your view seems quite reasonable at this stage.

Would take that trophy over anything right now 100%

[The Ibrox Derry 8,904]

I can see both sides of the argument here between resting players on Thursday for the Cup Final or going all out for both games.

All I will say is this, we don't have a great history when it comes to "resting" players.

We had a couple of post winter break disasters under Gerrard which spring to mind.

And even as recently as the international break where players came back "very sluggish" at Pittodrie.

And although it's a very different set of circumstances with regards to personal in the the squad, we won a Scottish Cup 2 and a half days after the physical and psychological trauma of Seville.

Success on Thursday night would be a fantastic platform to then head to Hampden on Sunday.

It really is a case of Risk v Reward.

[BlueVanguard 6,625]

1 hour ago, TamCoopz said:

@BlueVanguardis due chucking his love for Rangers because he hates var, so your view seems quite reasonable at this stage.

Would take that trophy over anything right now 100%

Never chuck the love for Rangers but the love for Football under these new rules and rules they plan to bring in are just not football to me. 

[.Williamson. 82,224]

2 minutes ago, BlueVanguard said:

Never chuck the love for Rangers but the love for Football under these new rules and rules they plan to bring in are just not football to me. 

Rules they plan to bring in? You mean stop players surrounding referees?