Rangers FC suffered their first loss of the new Premiership season as Jordan Jones picked up a red card during the dying minutes of the match.
The winger was shown a straight red for a wild challenge on Celtic defender Moritz Bauer and he himself picked up an injury while making the tackle.
And it looks like Steven Gerrard has found the perfect guy to scapegoat after the match.
Speaking to Rangers TV, the manager was pretty explicit that the challenge should have resulted in a red card but he was clearly not sympathetic towards Jordan Jones.
“It was a red card for sure, no complaints,” he told Rangers TV. “I don’t know what is going through Jordan’s head there.
“You don’t get fans on your side by doing immature stuff like that, you do it by creating and scoring goals and that’s what we want from Jordan Jones, not tackles like that that are way late.
“But we now have to take some criticism that is going to come our way and rightly so. We will stand up and be man enough to take that.
“When we analyse it properly we are four points better off than we were last year and we are still in the League Cup. We’ve qualified for Europe so there are a lot of positives, but right now it doesn’t feel like it.”
Speaking to Sky Sports as well the manager pointed out that Jordan Jones fully deserved the punishment.
“Without a shadow of a doubt he [the referee] got that bang on, it was a red card,” Gerrard told Sky Sports, as reported by Football Scotland.
“I think Jordan has tried to appease the fans but that’s not how you appease Rangers fans – you create goals and score goals if you’re a wide man, that’s how you get fans on your side, not kicking people when the ball’s 10 yards away so he deserves the red card, he deserves his ban and he’s got everything to do now to get back in my team.”
While the manager has not spoken anything wrong but we feel that has been too harsh on the summer signing especially infront of the media.
Obviously, that tackle deserved a red card and karma also played his part since Jordan Jones came off worse in that tackle.
jordan jones leaving in crutches after injuring himself gettin sent off😂 pic.twitter.com/r9EaTJFPSg
— dylan (@__DG7__) September 1, 2019
But you also have to understand the winger’s point of view.
He was playing in his first-ever Old Firm Derby and unfortunately, he ended up on the losing side. So typically, the frustration got the better of him which is why we believe the manager should have used softer words in public and instead given Jordan Jones a piece of his mind inside the dressing room.
