Rangers destroy FCSB but Clement’s real battle is St Mirren | OneFootball

We’re obviously all extremely pleased with Rangers’ performance at Ibrox overcoming a seemingly-in-form FCSB side with astonishing ease to secure a brilliant 4-0 win.

But it must be said all of us at Ibrox Noise, including Derek, utterly overblew the opponent into being something they absolutely aren’t, and that’s ‘good’.

Going into this one we were under the illusion the Romanian side was bang in form and taking scalps in Europe as well – thankfully for Rangers’ morale department, this was completely wrong.

They are scraping by in the league, down in 5th in an abysmal division – Romania is one of Europe’s absolute backwater leagues, hence former Rangers target Albion Rrahmani was desperate to leave, for anyone. He got his move away from Bucharest.

In Europe, they haven’t beaten anyone good – a rotten Cypriot mob and a diddy Latvian side – the absolute bowels of European football which could easily have been in the Conference league.The climb-down from Lyon to FCSB was actually staggering and we all got it horribly wrong that they were any good.

It was abundantly clear in Govan on Thursday that despite Thursday Rangers mercifully appearing, our opponent was nowhere near on the level of Lyon, and had got lucky with a couple of ‘easy’ matches to open their Europa League campaign.

We are not trying to downplay a very good performance from Rangers, but the opponent was poor, very poor, and even then, had it not been for the ref bailing Jack Butland out, the result might not have gone in Rangers’ favour.

It’s a win, a big win, and it gives Rangers an outstanding 6 points of 9 in this competition, but the Europa League is in Rangers’ DNA and has been the case under every manager since and including Steven Gerrard.

We can offer Philippe Clement little credit for this result in truth, it’s more Thursday Rangers that just wakes up completely and delivers something different.

But Lyon were far, far too strong for Clement and Rangers still have Spurs and Man Utd to come.For us the pressing matter is Sunday and St Mirren.