Van Bronckhorst Queries Mentality Of Rangers Players After Liverpool Thrashed (1 Viewer)

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Giovanni van Bronckhorst, the manager of Rangers, has acknowledged that it is "impossible to explain and digest" their humiliating 7-1 loss to Liverpool at home in the Champions League on Wednesday night.
The Gers entered the match against Jurgen Klopp's team having lost each of their previous three Group A games, but they got off to a strong start when Scott Arfield opened the score in the 17th minute.

However, Roberto Firmino's close-range header in the 24th minute brought Rangers' joy to an abrupt end as the floodgates poured in the second half.
Ten minutes after the break, Firmino gave Liverpool the lead before substitute Mohammed Salah scored three goals in as many minutes, becoming the fastest player to a hat trick in Champions League history, either side of goals from Darwin Nunez and Harvey Elliott, handing the Gers their worst home loss in European competition.

With two games left to play and no points earned, Rangers were consequently eliminated from the Champions League group stage. Their goal differential currently reads a worrisome -15, the worst of any team in this year's campaign.

Although Van Bronckhorst was happy with how his team played against Liverpool in the first half, he has criticized his players for giving up too many "simple goals" in the second.
Speaking to BT Sport after the match, the Dutchman said: "It was a very disappointing result. We were playing well in the first half. The second goal came out of their strength, they are so fast in transition and we got caught a couple of times. I think we created some good chances but the further the game went, the more we kept playing short.

"We had to play it more directly which would have given us the chance to score goals. Just as we were about to put three strikers on to get something out of the game, it went really quickly.

"We conceded too many easy goals and the game went so fast after that. You want the start we had today but the first set-piece went in. In the second half it was too easy. After 3-1 we tried to push but you could see we were struggling because they upped the tempo - that's why we conceded so many goals.

"If you see the changes they can make in the end... They have quality players coming on but we knew that. We knew we had to be focused throughout the game and we didn't. I'm not thinking about the Champions League group, just processing this defeat and that's all I'm thinking about at the moment."
 

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