Michael Beale tore into his Rangers players for a defensive “horror show” against St Mirren - and warned he won’t stand for any repeats.
Hot on the heels of last week’s Old Firm defeat that saw Celtic capitalise on two blunders, the Ibrox side were guilty of another two lapses to let St Mirren fight back to 2-2 before Beale's side eventually saw out a 5-2 victory. The Light Blues boss read the riot act at half-time and afterwards claimed it was changes to shape and personnel made from the sidelines which led to victory. Two Alfredo Morelos goals and a Scott Arfield strike all in the last 10 minutes secured the points.
But the sloppiness infuriated the manager ahead of a trip to Pittodrie next Sunday, which comes ahead of the Scottish Cup semi final against Celtic. And Beale raged: “I thought we became passive. I was really annoyed with St Mirren’s first goal. Take nothing away from the boy O’Hara, it was a fantastic strike. But if you rewind it back, we had a four-vs-three in the attacking third. We were very wasteful in that moment – and our reaction from that was dreadful.
