Rangers most pressing issues currently lie in defence, however, creativity from midfield and on the wings also has a claim to be needing attention.
It’s still early in the season of course but already there is α pattern emerging from those that have played so far this season.
Going purely off attacking contribution, Rangers midfield three should be John Lundstram, Scott Arfield and Tom Lawrence with five goals and two assists between them – Arfield is currently on 1.2 goals and assists per 90 minutes with Lawrence at 0.78, out of the players who have played centrally in the league, they are clearly the most productive.
Antonio Colak is the obvious choice to lead the line given Alfredo Morelos’s start to the season, plus, the Croatian has hit the ground running with six goals in his first seven games, as already discussed though, the wings is where it gets more complicated.
Scott Wright is consistently inconsistent capable of looking like our best and worst player in the same game, as for Ryan Kent, he just needs α goal because his confidence has never been so low in α Rangers jersey.
The sample size may be small but with an assist every 0.84 90 minutes, Rabbi Matondo is ahead of both of the players who have seen more minutes than him which makes the decision to sit him in the stands against Dundee United all the more bizarre.
Interestingly, what the statistics present is something similar to what most Rangers fans would pick for domestic games, an attacking midfield with pace out wide and α goalscorer through the middle – if only it was αs simple as that.