Rangers dropped more valuable points on Thursday night in the Scottish Premiership, drawing Dundee 1-1. Here are the player ratings.
GK Liam Kelly, 6.0
LB Jefte, 4.0
Poor. Only “bested” by his fullback counterpart on the other side in this battle of incompetence, and he was only narrowly better by virtue of the fact that he could run fast.
Jefte’s yellow card was a prime example of a player without a clue of how to tackle, nor was Jefte’s contributions as a passer going forward any better. Whatever he looked like on Thursday, he didn’t look like a professional left back playing for one of European football’s most historic clubs.
CB Clinton Nsiala, 7.0
Nsiala blocked a total of four shots and made five clearances for Rangers, standing out as one of the few players on the team who played legitimately well in this otherwise garish road trip to Dundee.
CB Robin Propper, 6.0
Although Propper defended well, as per usual, the leader at the back looked anything but composed on the ball, making several wayward passes that prevented Rangers from ever really getting into a rhythm offensively in the build-up phase.
RB Ridvan Yilmaz, 3.0
Dreadful. It didn’t even seem like Yilmaz was trying to play the game of football, but rather attempt to commit as many nonsensical fouls or basic positional blunders as possible.
Offered zero going forward while leaving Rangers fans to bite their nails defensively, Yilmaz delivered as quintessential of a disasterclass as it gets from the right back position.
DM Mohamed Diomande, 4.0
The effort was there but the quality clearly wasn’t. Mohamed Diomande took up some valuable positions and then proceeded to squander just about all of them with a combination of lackluster technical execution and a flailing first touch that would make Romelu Lukaku cringe.
Diomande has some intriguing traits, but this performance displays how far the 23-year-old is from putting it all together. He needs to learn to put touch on his passes and to move after passing so that he can take advantage of space that opens up, rather than running blindly or swiping a leg at the ball and hoping it all works out for Rangers.
On the other side of the coin, he nearly scored a crazy winner from range that smacked the crossbar, but the fact that he was so poor for the 85 minutes leading up to that one brilliant effort is the bigger story; hitting the crossbar off a fluke shot in a draw against Dundee, at the end of the day, isn’t all that praiseworthy.
DM Connor Barron, 5.0
Came off for the hope of another super-sub appearance by Danilo. He worked hard defensively but failed to impact the game on the ball, taking up positions that didn’t help Rangers progress the ball up the pitch in any meaningful way.
AM Nedim Bajrami, 4.0
Anonymous. Although Bajrami didn’t make the frustrating blunders his teammates did, you’d expect a lot more from a No. 10 starting for Rangers than what the former Serie A standout offered against Dundee. He was a passenger.
LW Ianis Hagi, 5.0
Off at the half for Rabbi Matondo with an apparent back injury. He did his best to try and string together some plays from the left with a few passes to start one-twos, but his teammates weren’t on the same page as him.
That said, Hagi could have done better to avoid isolating himself on the flank, and his spark seemed to be lacking when beginning the explosion of his one-on-one attempts, which may have been due to that back injury.
ST Hamza Igamane, 6.5
Recorded an assist and did his best to try and make things happen in the penalty area, fighting for every 50/50, which, in the end, helped lead to Vaclav Cerny’s equalizer.
There will be better days for the 22-year-old striker, and it is important that he showed this level of effort despite an incompetent display from the Rangers midfield; he showed he can show up for the team when the going gets tough.
RW Vaclav Cerny, 6.0
Scored a goal and worked reasonably hard on both ends of the pitch, but he should have scored or assisted another. Cerny was clearly not at his best from a shooting or passing perspective, but the fact that he was the main hope for Rangers saves his rating. At least he carried some sort of threat, and he did take his chance well in the end.
