Rangers FC beat FC Progres 2-0 in the second round of the Europa League qualifying round giving then a hefty advantage for the second leg which is set to be played next week.
The Gers scored courtesy two new players – Joe Aribo and Sheyi Ojo but in fairness, the Glasgow outfit should have killed the two-legged tie completely as they had a number of chances in front of goal.
And this is why Steven Gerrard was not too happy with his team’s performance vs Progres claiming that his players needed to be more clinical in the final third.
He said(as reported): “The game plan tonight was to try and kill the tie as early as we can. I believe we’ve created more than enough chances to do that.
“In big moments in the game, we haven’t been clinical enough.
“Obviously the penalty springs to mind and we probably had six or seven decent chances on top of that to score more goals.
“As the game goes on we’re chasing that third goal and lose a bit of discipline and shape at the back and we could have been caught out. So there’s work to do.
“But the problem now it Progres’ problem because we’ve got a two-goal advantage and a clean sheet.
“I think you can see a gulf in both teams tonight so they need to do something drastically different from their game plan tonight.
“I predict there will be openings for us to go and create more chances. But we do need to be more clinical in front of goal and try kill this tie as early as we can.
“The atmosphere in the dressing room is a tad flat because they have high expectations themselves.
“But it’s still early. Sharpness and that ruthlessness in front of goal is normally the last thing to come after the pre-season.
“We know it will come but yeah, everybody is slightly disappointed we haven’t got he job done tonight because over the course of the 90 minutes we’ve created more then enough to finish it. We haven’t, so we’ve work to do.”
