Soccer Football - Europa League - Group C - Aris Limassol v Rangers - Alphamega Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus - October 5, 2023 Rangers interim manager Steven Davis applauds the fans after the match REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
Anger levels reached a new peak tonight as loyal bears watched their side lose 2-1 to ARIS Limassol in the Europa League.
ARIS are currently sitting in fifth place in the Cypriot League and playing in Europe for the second time, last season they were knocked out in a Conference League qualifier.
With Beale binned the Ibrox board turned to two men that are steeped in the apparent traditions of the club, Steve Davis and Alex Rae.
Despite the change in management the Starting XI was on familiar lines with five Europa League finalists bolstered by summer signings such as Sam Lammers and Cyriel Dessers.
A sloppy star was duly punished in the eighth minute when Alex Moucketou-Moussounda sent a glancing header beyond Jack Butland right in front of the 1,800 travelling bears.
ARIS were denied what appeared to be a clear penalty right on half time but justice was done in the 59th minute when Shavy Babicka netted after John Lundstram had been skinned for pace.
Abdallah Sima pulled a goal back in the 70th minute but the Cypriot side held on fairly comfortably to take full points.
At the final whistle the Ibrox stars kept a safe distance from the away support but on the club’s Twitter account there was no hiding place.
FULL-TIME: Aris Limassol 2-1 Rangers pic.twitter.com/TBu57lnKJl
— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) October 5, 2023
Tav, Goldson, Barisic should all be sacked
— Jámes ?? (@James1872_) October 5, 2023
That whole team minus Sima and butland need gone! Absolute charlatans the lot of them!
— Blue Sea of Ibrox (@ibrox_blue) October 5, 2023
A bunch of frauds.
Disgrace.
— Andrew Binks (@ABinks27) October 5, 2023
So many of that team tonight should never kick a ball for us again! Tav, goldson, Davies, barasic, wright, Lammers and dessers!! The other get a reprieve because we can’t lose everyone
— Deek (@DeekMc1980) October 5, 2023
Can’t wait to hear from Tav after this ????
— Tavernier Sufferer ? (@StaunchTav) October 5, 2023
— Scott Gallagher ??? (@GallagherScotty) October 5, 2023
An absolute disgrace and that performance was embarrassing. Barring sima and butland If the rest left tomorrow I wouldn’t care. Dessers is awful, lammers is a 5 aside player & the effort from likes of barasic, tav, lundstrum etc was shocking. Youth MUST be given a chance now
— Peter Adam (@petera1872) October 5, 2023
Sima and Butland are the only ones who deserve to fly home. The rest of the starting 11 can stay there. Shocking
— Jámes ?? (@James1872_) October 5, 2023
Absolutely dreadful man feel sorry for whoever gets the managers job as they will need every luck in the world, Ross McCausland comes on and does more than the whole team on the night, tav captain don’t make me laugh, Dessers is absolutely rotten
— thatguycalledross (@rossjohnston94) October 5, 2023
Embarrassing
— Sick Of It ???????? (@WayneOrourke88) October 5, 2023
— ??????99 (@danilo99szn) October 5, 2023
Bbbbuuuuttt Nosferatu and Interesting Davis “gets them”, ie they’re staunch no surrender proddies. They know fuck all about football right enough, but that’s OK, neither does their gullibilly dumbass fanbase.
Firstly, I hope Cyprus is still intact & not destroyed!
Secondly-know your place hunnies & stay in your lane, it’s not Covid times so teams throughout Europe are on their game.
Don’t get it with sevco, they’d b lucky to finish top 4 in Scotland so how do they expect to travel to Cypress & get a result!!??
Silly little billy klub..
Sounds like the foaming bears aren’t too impressed with Davis’ post-match
comments either. They think he is ‘covering for his mates’!
Quickest honeymoon period for a footy manager ever:
yet another ibrox world record…? 🙂
Cockney rhyming slang for a behind is “aris” so I guess one team was called “Aris” and the other was full of them…
What about the Kilmarnock manager sitting in a tv studio cheerleading another team in the same league as his club
Bizarre
Halliday is another on Clyde Superscoreboard talking up The Sevco Huns quite often Harold…
Goodness knows what The Scumbos from Swinecastle think about that but given that some of them are actually WORSE than Sevco fans they probably won’t care that much –
But Kilmarnock fans – Unlike Hearts fans The Killie ones that I’ve encountered have been not too bad to talk to and goodness knows as you say what they’ll think about it indeed…
Only in the banana republic of Scotland could this happen !
As we’ve all suspected, Sevco do indeed take it up the Aris!
I’ll get my coat.!
Remind me again, who is enjoying the ‘Banter Years’