Rangers looked to maintain the recent upturn in form against Motherwell, however, all Michael Beale is ended up with more questions being asked about his competence.
Anyone who has watched Scottish Premiership teams play against us knows how they are going to set up, unfortunately, it would appear that the Gers boss is still over complicating things and has learned nothing from his previous four years.
The lineup was announced and it looked like Rangers were carrying on with the same recent system but Michael Beale had other, convoluted, ideas.
Rangers back to square one under Michael Beale
The inclusion of Scott Wright was a surprise but to then see him playing almost as a number eight made it even more bizarre.
A player who Beale was quite happy to leave was being trusted with a key role in building our attacks.
Wright is an old fashioned winger, he has pace, good feet but a questionable end product.
Playing wide he offers a threat if he has space but playing centrally made no sense at all, especially given how Motherwell set up.
Rangers were left with Borna Barisic and James Tavernier offering the width but neither are capable of beating players 1v1 which resulted in crosses that were easy to defend being thrown in to a packed box.
To beat teams in who set up so defensively, you have to get behind them and Rangers played straight into Motherwell’s hands.
It was as poor a performance from the team and the manager as we have seen all season.
Trying to be too clever and back to putting square pegs in round holes.
He might have been unhappy but Beale was in the position to do something about it.
Rangers had the players to cause Motherwell problems and yet Michael Beale let them off the hook.
Yes, we have injuries to key players but the manager has to play thrones who are fit in their best positions and set the team up to expose the opposition’s weakness not play to their strengths.
