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David McCarthy

The 4 Rangers causes behind Simply the Worst Champions League record in history

Simply the worst.

It's a tag Rangers will hate but will have to get used to, at least until another team produces a more wretched Champions League campaign than the one they completed on Tuesday with a record of played six, lost six, two goals scored, 22 conceded. Or to put it another way, over the course of the nine torturous hours played against Ajax, Liverpool and Napoli, Gio van Bronckhorst 's side shipped a goal every 24 and a half minutes.

Ajax took seven off them, Liverpool nine - including a 7-1 walloping that was the heaviest home defeat in the club's history, Napoli helped themselves to six and the bitter truth is that on each occasion the Dutch, English and Italians could have inflicted far greater damage. So what went wrong? How could a team which rampaged to the final of the Europa League less than six months ago with a brand of fast, physical attacking football that swept aside the likes of RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund before losing on penalties to Eintracht Frankfurt have been transformed so rapidly into a pale shadow of a side that looked terrified of the competition they had worked so hard to get to?

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