A disappointing night at Ibrox tonight, both teams not learning from the mistakes of the first game. For me Sir Alex got his team selection wrong, no width where it mattered, Rangers didn’t attack enough when in possession. Everything that went wrong can be found in my STV article that depicted the first game http://bit.ly/huQyL6

It took Manchester United 176 minutes to break down the Rangers defence and Walter can take credit from that, but he needs to find a way of playing with this tight defensive system and letting the players break forward when they have the ball. Scottish teams aren’t good enough to play tiki-taka passing up the field and play round the opponents.

They do need though to show a little adventure and patience, hit on the break, make the right pass, and you can’t afford like Kenny Miller to be greedy when oppurtunities come your way. Obviously the missing players would have helped emensly, Bougherra’s ability to break forward from defence, then Davis playing more in the midfield would have helped.

I thought young Kyle Hutton had a good game, massive step up from the League Cup but he did very well, apart from his half chance Naismith had a quiet game, Weiss at times looked wonderful – until he’s beaten the fourth man and not found a pass “prihrať loptu” that’s Slovakian for “PASS THE BALL” get that one circulating through the Rangers training ground.

It is disappointing that Rangers didn’t have the resources to move to 4-4-2 or at least 4-5-1 in the last twenty minutes, push Davis in the middle, Naismith and Weiss freedom to push on and have a little go, if you lose 2/3-0 your still in the Europa League, draw 1-1 and you never know what the future holds.

Overall I think United derserved to win since they took the game to Rangers, if it was boxing or MMA the judges would have to reward them for attacking intent. It’s a hard won, Rangers didn’t derserve to win, but didn’t deserve to lose either, maybe it’s poetic that all that seperated the two sides was a penalty.

Rangers adventure moves on the Europa League now after a little trip to Bursa, would be nice to see Walter try something else, there’s no need to play defensive, there’s plenty time for that in the knockout stages. Hopefully I’ll be invited back to STV to write about Rangers Europa League opponents, until then it’s back to the SPL.