A picture paints a thousand words.
Earlier on in the season, much of our poor form was down to the pressure being caused by conceding the first goal in matches, now though, it seems that just conceding at all is enough to cause widespread panic in the Rangers support.
An article in the Rangers Review has looked at the numbers following our 2-2 draw with Motherwell and they don’t make for pretty reading, one in particular being enough to turn you off football for good.
At 2-0 up, Rangers were in total control, it was our most dominant and total display of the season only for a lapse in concentration that lead to us giving them a foothold in the game.
They had done nothing to suggest that they were even remotely capable of troubling Allan McGregor, never mind breaching his goal, and yet, we contrived to gift them a goal, the xG graph in the article showing exactly how costly our keeper’s decision not to gather a tame cut-back really was – if he does as he’s done countless of times before I have no doubt that we’d be talking about a fine overall performance and a routine win.
Dropping points throughout a 38 game league campaign is always going to happen, but this season, the frustrating thing has been how much we have shot ourselves in the foot, letting teams take points away from games with just one or two shots on target.
We shouldn’t need to score three goals every week to be comfortable, last season much of our success was from the number of clean sheets we kept and stopping the opposition from getting a sniff of our goal, oh how I long for those days.