00:00 So Lewis, let's start off with what was the first game of the weekend at McDermid Park?
00:06 A 2-0 win for Rangers.
00:09 You know, when you're managing one of the two Glasgow clubs,
00:13 the pressure's never off for long,
00:15 but that result will have relieved a bit of the pressure that was starting to build on Michael Beale.
00:21 Yeah, yeah, really important one.
00:23 Obviously, there's been a lot of disgruntled Rangers fans
00:26 due to their kind of underwhelming start to the season.
00:30 Obviously, a lot's been made about the new signings,
00:33 still kind of not making the impact that many would have expected them to have.
00:38 And yeah, this was a massive win for them, really, as you mentioned.
00:43 They're much needed for Michael Beale.
00:44 The pressure was on him early doors,
00:46 given, of course, this was the first time they were playing since the old firm defeat,
00:53 and of course, being dumped out of the Champions League.
00:55 So, it has been a really disappointing start to the season.
00:58 There's no getting away from that.
00:59 And you needed to...
01:01 I still think this next run of games could seriously be make or break.
01:06 And in my view, I think they've got the likes of Livingston, Aberdeen,
01:11 you know, these teams still to play.
01:15 I don't think at this moment in time, Europe...
01:19 This season is something that Rangers will do a great deal in.
01:24 In the Europa League, as they started out on Thursday night.
01:28 But it was important that they go into this game against Real Betis on Thursday
01:32 on the back of a real kind of confidence-boosting win.
01:35 I thought, you know, barring maybe a 15-minute, 20-minute spell
01:39 to start the second half, where St. Johnson did have a couple of,
01:43 you know, half-chances, if you like.
01:47 Rangers, across the board, were pretty comfortable winners in the end.
01:53 Yeah, well, they will have those European games.
01:55 And I think the important thing is that the rest of September now,
01:58 it's four home games.
02:00 A positive result against Betis on Thursday will certainly put them
02:06 in the right sort of mind frame to go on.
02:08 And then they've really...
02:10 I mean, it goes without saying, I suppose,
02:12 but three home games for a club like Rangers is nine points must.
02:16 Especially, you wouldn't expect Livingston necessarily to go to Ibrox
02:22 and get something.
02:23 They don't have the best track record of doing that.
02:25 Aberdeen, at the end of the month, maybe they might have potentially
02:30 turned a corner by then.
02:31 Aberdeen fans can only hope.
02:32 But right now, things aren't looking good for them.
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