Lyon 0 Rangers 3

When I went to bed last night I could have sworn that I had just watched Rangers beat the French Champions by 3 goals to nil.  It must have been a dream.  Naw, I counldnae even have dreamed such a result.  It must have been the drink.

Woke up this morning and there it was, plastered over the back page of all the newspapers:

Lyon 0 Rangers 3.

Rangers defended well throughout and their goals were special.

Another strong surging run by Alan Hutton earned a corner, and Damarcus Beasley whipped in a powerful cross that took out three defenders to find Lee McCulloch whose header bulleted into the back of the net 0 – 1.

Second half, and Alan Hutton has the ball wide right midway into the Lyon half, a good cross to the feet of Daniel Cousin, who swivels and shoots past the helpless French goalkeeper 0 – 2.

Now the third goal was special.  If Ronaldo, Ronaldihno, or Wayne Rooney, made the pass that found DaMarcus Beasley, they would have been raving about it for weeks.  The pass opend up the Lyon defence and left Beasley with only the goalkeeper to beat, which he did very neatly, 0 – 3.

The first five or ten minutes were a bit unsettling  as Rangers struggled to retain possession and looked really quite vulnerable, but as the match progressed Rangers began to get more of the ball.

Whilst it was a great result, we must try not to give the ball away so easily against Barcelona, as this just gives our overworked defence so much more to do.  Having said that, to score three goals with so little possession is pretty clinical.

The blatant dive by Juninho was no accident.  Players on the continent actually practice this in their training sessions.  They ARE professional cheats.  The booking against David Weir should be rescinded and passed on to the real culprit, Juhinho, but  Eufa rules apparently as designed to protect cheats, and it is not possible to rescind a booking.

Luckily, someone up there does understand justice, and after his deviousness was exposed maybe it was more than luck that saw Juhinho’s efforts for the rest of the evening fail.