Rangers fans will be asking multiple questions this evening after crashing out of the Scottish Cup at the hands of Queen’s Park.
Gutless Gers blew their last chance at silverware and handed Celtic the chance for another treble by losing at home to the Championship side.
It was a poor display with a lack of urgency from the outset and then no composure to be able to get back into the game when trailing late on, with James Tavernier missing a stoppage time penalty.
Post-match, Alan Hutton admitted he was “baffled” by those elements of Gers’ performance as well as some decisions from Philippe Clement, including his subs.
With Ridvan Yilmaz coming on for Ianis Hagi among them, the substitutions made have also been questioned by fans.
Clement spoke to Premier Sports post-match and admitted the team played with too slow a tempo to start with.
He also admitted the players had lost all the credit they had built up with fans but insisted he still has a future as manager of the club.
Clement ‘doesn’t understand’ Rangers sub question
Clement has also bit back at questions about his in-game changes for Rangers.
The substitutions in question and highlighted by Hutton and Marvin Bartley were the double change on the hour as Yilmaz came on for Hagi and John Souttar for Rafael Fernandes. But also Bailey Rice being hooked at half-time for Nicolas Raskin.
The manager was asked at full-time about those and whether they could be seen as too defensive.
But he told Premier Sports: “I don’t think it’s defensive if you’re taking off a defensive midfielder and put a striker in, so I don’t really understand the question.
“Yilmaz played really good games a left winger and he will play also as a left winger in moments.
“This was not the time to put on a young boy and that was the other opportunity.
“That was the changes for now with the wingers we have in the squad.”
What Clement has said on his Rangers future
”It happened several times in the past, we know it’s a rebuild,” said Clement.
”I’m focused on this game, on the next game, I don’t think you can ask much more than to get 30 chances.
“Nothing to do with tactics or whatever it’s about the quality of the moment and that we missed today.
”Yes I am confident about (my position). Everybody knows how hard everybody is working together.
”Last week everybody was saying that the team is taking good steps and growing and great, eighth position in the Europa League.
“It’s not because you lose a game that you normally have to win 99 out of 100 that things change about the way things are working.
”If you do that then you are only living in emotions and then there will never be stability in this club.”
