Had Rangers made it past the Portuguese giants, a welcome bonus of £1.8m in prize money would have been received as well as another couple of million made from selling out a packed home ground.
Gers boss Philippe Clement might claim to want to win everything but he is also a realist.
Take Thursday night as an example.
He started with Scott Wright and had Rabbi Matondo and Ross McCausland on the bench knowing that the latter had struggled in training.
The reason why he was on the bench was in case the game went into extra-time because Clement knew that Matondo had little more than half an hour in his legs.
This is the story throughout the squad.Tom Lawrence missed pre-season and has to be looked after but Todd Cantwell has only just returned to training.Mohamed Diomande is having to play every game having arrived from halfway through Nordsjaelland’s pre-season training, if Nicolas Raskin was 100% or Ryan Jack was available, this wouldn’t be the case.Now, add another couple of games against a team like Liverpool or Bayer Leverkusen or Milan into the fixture list.
That would not help our preparations in a title race that is down to the wire.
Over the course of two games, the Rangers demonstrated that they can compete with a talented side that has spent a lot of money in recent years, but there is a time and place.We ran out of steam domestically between 2008 and 2022 as a result of our efforts in Europe.Reaching the European championships is a great accomplishment, and you can never pick and choose when you do it; but, this year there are other objectives.
Over the course of two games, the Rangers demonstrated that they can compete with a talented side that has spent a lot of money in recent years, but there is a time and place.We ran out of steam domestically between 2008 and 2022 as a result of our efforts in Europe.Reaching the European championships is a great accomplishment, and you can never pick and choose when you do it; but, this year there are other objectives.
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