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Coverage of the Scottish Premiership match at The SMISA Stadium. St Mirren fared well in matches against the Gers last term, winning two, drawing one and losing just one of the four meetings between the sides
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00:00Fernandes who joined from Peterborough, Asgard from Luton,
00:22Kassam
00:25Rangers career
00:30Well, already Richardson for me
00:37Ayunga showing his strength and his power of Suter, Raskan keeps him occupied
00:44at the corner between Mirren but the hometowns, the big man
00:48Real good old 50-50 shoulder charge there by Ayunga coming out on top with John Suter
00:55I mean he's a big strong boy in itself John Suter but full power there, sends big Suter out of play
01:03Raskan did ever so well to cover that
01:10Miguel Freckleton is down at the moment for Samirin and will need treatment before this
01:15A couple of defenders on the bench, Richard King
01:25Raskan is down at the moment for Mishy Sopwali as well
01:37much as Rangers
01:38Yeah, I thought it was his hamstring, but with those tests the medical department are doing, it looked like more hip and quad area, so it looks okay.
01:56...for a corner from one of their former players, not being briefly, Declan John, who played with Russell Martin at Rangers in 2018.
02:06...there, Zonal and man-marking, and they have...
02:12...Phillips giving Declan John a better angle, if he is able to deliver, but Kassam on defensive watch.
02:21Well again, they've taken the shots, and just like Bruges gave Rangers a lot of trouble.
02:28And they didn't learn their lesson, Rangers, the other evening, so it's obviously something that the coaching team have looked at and think we can get a bit of joy here.
02:36Looks like Bacchus is lining up a long throw.
02:42Popular for St Mirren over the years, and effective too with the height they have in their team, but he's not done his best with that particular throw.
02:54Yeah, that wasn't his best.
03:03A bit of a waste, because you've got the big lads that are speaking about, and Rangers have had their issues, so...
03:08Stevie obviously won't be too chuffed with the execution of both the corner and the throwing.
03:15...the horror puts Behrens under pressure.
03:22There won't be much room to manoeuvre, or any kind of space for Rangers today.
03:32I tell you what, the heat's getting turned up on the Rangers here.
03:38Yeah, there was a...
03:51we're putting the mess...
03:55have a word not too much in it
04:12magoma has kasama head
04:25by the way the a on the uh in the name of kasam the end of it anyway silent that's what he wants to
04:50be known as kasam before anyone messages
04:55julian phillips gets involved but asgard has hung in there
05:25well i'm not sure it's nico asking it with the fouls given against him maybe the first bump as
05:33he takes inside with camera in there i mean it's pretty 50 50.
05:47so i'm looking to get there raskan actually won the header back us
06:01yeah mark ahara's looking for a free kick right in the edge of the boxes he's wheeling up for a
06:05shot there lil cameron just gets in his way
06:12it's a decent take from asgard yeah much better
06:15i don't just need more of that gasam
06:23up against richardson
06:29atman
06:29atman's cross towards cameron he was closely watched by declan john
06:49on the bench again for rangers with max aaron's preferred right back here's backers
07:05that's a good point
07:11but i think it's just a pressure through the back but again it's just been an indication of how tights that
07:15Kassam
07:15Richardson's not happy
07:27but just the pressure through the back
07:29but again it's just been
07:30an indication of how tight
07:33St Mirna want to get, a couple of moments
07:35before with Asgard he's complaining that the
07:37contacts come from behind but needs
07:39to be
07:39St Mirna unbeaten in their last
07:53three league encounters
07:55with Rangers
07:56the longest unbeaten run since
07:59five matches
07:59back in 1984
08:03Kassam now
08:06Marcus Fraser covering
08:08yeah really good
08:10because again Kassam had burned away from
08:11Richardson's inside, that's something that
08:13Marcus Fraser will need to do all afternoon
08:15is on beyond the cover
08:29went down
08:32old head
08:36Marcus Fraser
08:38fell over the team
08:43St Mirna up and at it
08:53up and at Rangers
08:56surprise there
08:58Kylian Phillips over this
09:04how about that for a high line
09:05is very high
09:06St Mirna always work a little block
09:12with Marcus Fraser
09:13just watch him there block
09:15to create a gap
09:16free kick's been given
09:21couple opportunities
09:30I'm quite sure that Stevie Robinson
09:32will be disappointed because
09:34it's something
09:35I believe it prides himself on
09:36when we were watching him last season
09:37they did a lot of that
09:39just subtle blocks
09:40nothing
09:40and it's
09:40Antman
09:56fronted by Declan John
10:00show Rothwell running
10:02on to that
10:03it wasn't bad from Antman but Rothwell just coming in
10:08I'm not sure if it's
10:09too many
10:11too close with Lyle Cameron
10:12just smothered the space there
10:14I think that's what maybe Russell's
10:15looking at
10:16interesting that Rothwell's now been pushed to us
10:19he's been asked to be a wee bit more
10:26inventive
10:27where Nico Raskin
10:28picking up that sixth position
10:30he's been asked to be a wee bit more
11:00the header
11:00and the other one to go in the second
11:02to the
11:04towards Mandron again
11:27but Fernandes won that
11:28here's O'Hara though
11:29going to be a lucky
11:31it's game of yellow
11:32yeah
11:32for Nico Raskin
11:34first
11:34you
11:35you
11:44you
11:49you
11:52I promise him ball into the box and they'll go and ask questions of Jack Butland.
12:13And they've got Fraser, O'Hara, Farside there, Mandron, Ayunga, Central, Declan, Gogic with their head over straight at Butland.
12:27Anybody doing their homework there because it's exactly how they scored against Harps, that little short one and it's the same man that executed the goal against Harps, Gogic.
12:38He can watch it, goes short, Gogic then runs off him, you can see he's just on the back, in the box.
12:50Scored with a brilliant volley against Harps.
12:54He's noising up this little angry bunch in front of us here.
13:08Okay, we'll go along with Kasama.
13:23You
13:44Gogic is there to meet the throw
13:49Bacchus clears it
13:53It's
13:59And the note to him that
14:01He's at Murren Stryker just loitering with intent just off his shoulder
14:17It does like a challenge
14:19Phillips so strong
14:26Asgard's got that big, you know, easy, easy, easy style
14:30And St Murren are just smothering him any time he takes a contact
14:34They're just jumping on him, he's been caught once or twice now
14:37You can see that he's lacking minutes, lacking sharpness
14:42Gianni Bacchus over towards Richardson, steered away by Magoma
14:46I think it's like Kassam as Mandron got a hold of him
14:54It's a good effect, Mandron helps out
14:59Phillips, in and around Magoma
15:01It's a good effect, Mandron helps out
15:10Phillips, got Fraser alongside
15:13Ohara, Phillips, just didn't connect
15:30And guts and determination
15:35But this is a really nice move
15:42And when Phillips gets there he just doesn't catch it clean he's trying to hit it a little bit of cut spin
15:47Maybe the exertions of the two tackles and then getting back to his feet just took this power away from his legs but again
15:55St Murren right at it
15:58Yeah, he can certainly strike a football as well Kilian Phillips but that was a wonderful move
16:02From St Murren
16:09Bacchus Ayunga
16:14Freckleton
16:17From one side to the other
16:19Richardson now just trickled away from Mandron but it
16:23Came to Bacchus although he was not warned about Asgard
16:27Yeah, by about five or six thousand St Murren fans were telling a man on there
16:46Brentford
16:57Well cameras looking for it
17:27...continues running, here he is, nice cross for Cameron, who volleys over.
17:41That's a big chance, a real big chance and he knows it, what a ball from Aguomo out on that left side, saw him during the week putting a lovely cross, this one's got a bit more height on it but it's the exact same area where Danilo scores.
17:53Cameron's arriving late and he should score, he's leaning back and sight foots it over there, the crossbar but it's a really good opportunity.
18:04Delightful delivery from Aguomo, an opportunity spurned by Lyle Cameron.
18:10He's got an act after it as well, he carved that out at Dundee, he became the main man when McEwen left for Celtic, arriving in the box late.
18:19And he's really impressed, Russell Martin saying before the game he was unlucky to find himself out of the team, I kind of agree, but that was a wonderful chance for him.
18:49...play-off at St. Mirren.
19:13Marcus Fraser will take this throw.
19:15Fraser.
19:28Raskan able to knock that away but only as far as Kylian Phillips.
19:34Who's going back in for more.
19:36Oh, and Mandron, almost.
19:38Well, that's also a very good chance for Mandron at the back post, Aarons gets pinned, Mandron's on the outside.
19:51What a ball it has in as well, he's just stretching on that left leg, he's trying to fight Aarons as well for the space.
19:57And he just can't get it on target, but a really good opportunity again.
20:06...
20:08...
20:10...
20:12...
20:14...
20:16...
20:19...
20:22...
20:23...
20:24...
20:44Aarons, Aarons with a cross, not a great brawl, but better work, better relationship down this right side.
21:14Aarons now for O'Hara, and he's slipped it through here for Ayunger, but put them out to Clefton.
21:27Well he sees the pass, it required a little outsider, a right boot there just to bring it back into the path.
21:32Give it away, straight away to Freckleton.
21:37Raskan stepped in to regain possession, Asghar tracked by Bacchus.
21:46Kassam up against Fraser.
22:07I think Al Mandwan is hugging that right touchline, and that's where Shemal George has sent it.
22:26St. Mirren beat Rangers home and away last season, and their first win at Ibrox in 34 years.
22:43The end for Philippe Climont.
22:54Well, that and a few other results.
23:08Tello to Asghar.
23:09Magoma.
23:10Magoma.
23:11Magoma.
23:12Magoma.
23:13Magoma.
23:14Magoma.
23:15Marcus Fraser, bounced on that, here's Ayunger.
23:17Magoma.
23:18Magoma.
23:19Magoma.
23:20Magoma.
23:21Magoma.
23:34Marcus Fraser, pounced on that, here's Ayunga.
23:52It's actually reached Kassam.
24:04...diligent in his defensive duties, is that middleman?
24:20Mandron challenging Fernandes.
24:27It's trickled through to Kassam, but not for long. Keanu Backus wins it back.
24:34Ayunga for Richardson.
24:40Mandron will fancy a bit of that, it's a crucial touch from Suter.
24:44Declan John sends it all the way across.
24:48And now the flag is up.
24:49Yeah, Richardson's offside on the second phase there when the cross comes in from Declan John,
24:53but what a crucial touch from John Suter.
24:56Brilliant breakdown that right side and centre-back had to get a touch on it.
25:03Full stretch as well, John Suter.
25:07Samira fans are liking what they're seeing.
25:10They haven't actually scored yet in the premiership this season.
25:13Lost to that late goal at Celtic and then drew with Motherwell here.
25:20They are through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup.
25:25I tell you what, Kassam, Kassam and Magoma, the both got some amount of treatment out in that.
25:39Left side for Rangers, right for St Murren.
25:42It's a little subtle.
25:44Kicks just up.
25:47It's a little bump.
25:49I didn't see any contact with the studs, but it's just constant nibbles.
25:54And what it does is play with the Rangers players because they know any shot pass in.
26:00And it's something that Russell Martin encourages the midfielders to do.
26:04It's just a little lazy pass to create the contact to then eliminate if the forwards get the touch.
26:09But the contact is coming and sooner or later you start to look across your shoulder
26:14and take your eye off the ball.
26:16What a pass that is.
26:29Mandron.
26:30Ayunga's on the chase.
26:32Big moment in the match.
26:33Jonah Ayunga!
26:35St Murren have got trouble in store.
26:47I'm gonna go back to the forward players.
26:50This first pass was brilliant.
26:51To eliminate Niko Raskin.
26:52It was touch and go there.
26:53That pass into the grass.
26:54But the touch away from John Suter kills him.
26:56And doesn't allow him to get back for a sliding challenge.
26:57What a roll.
26:58This first pass was brilliant to eliminate Niko Raskin, his touch and go there, that pass into the grass but the touch away from John Suter kills him and doesn't allow him to get back for a sliding challenge. What a roll, this touch there kills John Suter and then a little pass where he outs, and it's actually the instep just to take it beyond Jack Buckland who's coming out and trying to spread himself.
27:23Passes and Rangers are killed, no wonder he looks happy because it's a brilliant goal.
27:30Just like that, what a finish from Jonah Ayunga, set up, nice strike partner and St Mirren.
27:44There is a VAR check going on which is standard procedure, they are drawing lines.
27:49Yeah, it's a great run, it looks onside, I mean it is tight, but John Suter, the first pass, I'd love to see the first pass again.
27:58It is a goal.
27:59There you go.
28:00The Rangers, who knew this was going to be an almighty challenge, have to dig very deep now.
28:17Where they want them to be and it's another step back for Russell Martin.
28:21Yeah, these are, these are huge games coming up, I know he sort of touched them.
28:28They got to touch the-
28:44Mark Ohara.
28:45I'm not sure if something's been said or Max Ahrens and him have just come together.
29:12See there, Max Ahrens just blocking Ahrens, the little coming together, absolutely no need for it, it's ridiculous.
29:29Nothing much in that at all.
29:34Yeah, I mean, but a young guy with a really tidy finish, look at this pass here, it is absolutely
29:51beautiful for Marcus Fraser.
29:53He knows that Nico Raskin's ahead as a six, looks at it to Mandron, that's a brilliant pass also, but let's talk about the finish, cool, composed, clinical.
30:03Excellent, they're on the move again with Declan John, Bacchus, John, kept alive by Mandron.
30:18Well Ian, Russell Martin spoke to us before the game talking about, spent a lot of time in the psychology, saw Chris and heard Chris asking Chris Boyd in the studio about it, but this is the moment that psychology is so important because you're going to need big, brave players in Rangers jerseys now.
30:37Raskin now for Rothwell, he's stumbled and Keanu, Bacchus has been...
30:47Oh!
30:48Not too far away, although Bungland would have dealt with it if he had to.
30:53Yeah, he's looking for that, Joe Rothwell just...
30:56Oh, let's see, Bacchus sniffs a little bit of light, right?
31:00He, again, heard it with the outside, the reboot and get movement on it.
31:08Rangers are always going to play a certain way, I don't think Russell's going to change Ian, so all the balls tend to be in front, and it's really suiting St. Mirren for that little mug of possession and going to counter-attack just like the goal.
31:23Kassam looking to make something happen.
31:30The Rangers could do with something happening.
31:36Magoma did get the cross in, Asgard!
31:40Oh my goodness, what a save that is.
31:42Shamal George with a magnificent stop to prevent a Rangers equaliser.
31:47I think Taylor Asgard thinks this is in.
31:49Shamal George has faced his own goal and just does a back one fist there, I think.
32:03I'm going to leave that a while.
32:05Well, again, it's Magoma down that left side.
32:10He was the source of Rangers getting back into the game somewhat.
32:14Paul Hawke-Lawire.
32:15That's in the game.
32:17…
32:22Philipps rising from Richardson likewise.
32:28Phillips rising, Richardson likewise, couldn't keep it going on that occasion, Raskan now
32:55for Magoma, releasing Ghassan again, offside flag is about to go up, the whistle actually went before the flag went up there
33:06yeah
33:08this man
33:12left side, it certainly was the area where the Rangers got most joy during the week
33:18good ball and Asgard goes past it and it looks but all it takes and purpose up is going to
33:25manage to claw that away, there, comes off his leg, he's still got the presence of mind
33:35and by the way, agility to do that, really really good goalkeeping
33:41one of those that looks better with every viewing, better in slow motion too
33:48I enjoyed that, nice moment for the big man
33:55this needs a little bit more imagination, as I said, that courage
34:05they're not breaking the Sumerran back line, everything is set up for Sumerran to face the play
34:17final five minutes of an awkward first half for Rangers
34:27the final five minutes of an awkward first half for Rangers
34:41Rothwell, Antman, Antman with a cross.
35:11When we finish here, Super Sunday takes over as Everton christen their new stadium.
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35:48Iyunga tracking Magoma here.
35:51Oh, it's a brilliant challenge from Jonah Iyunga.
35:54Goal scorer looking to turn provide for a corner.
35:58Nah, you have no free lunch here today.
36:01With that big fella about and Mandron up top, they are an absolute nightmare for Rangers backline.
36:08No time on the ball whatsoever.
36:09You're trying to feed Antman, killing Philips there.
36:15Nico Raskin back working hard, but he's enjoying himself.
36:19That goal's just...
36:21Just him up as well, the big guy.
36:25You can see that both him and his strike partner, a lot of smiles about them.
36:30They're having a nice afternoon.
36:31John.
36:52Fraser across.
36:54Mandron.
36:56Another corner.
36:57Well done to the ref.
37:01Nobody's engaging there and that little slip pass here.
37:05Look at that.
37:06He takes a better touch there and he's getting a shot off and goal.
37:10It's a crucial period this just before the break.
37:13St Mirrename to go.
37:16Declan John tries again.
37:21Rangers survive again.
37:22But they can't quite clear it, Kassam.
37:30Ohara.
37:33Phillips.
37:35Younger.
37:38Phillips with the cross.
37:45Held on to it.
37:46He looks extremely tired to me.
38:04That was a very tired looking pass.
38:06Of course, he was back there helping out, you know, to stop Mandron getting a shot away and goal.
38:14They look heavy leg, don't they?
38:15I know St Mirrename had a bit of an easier ride with the Rangers playing in Europe, but they look a bit off at Rangers.
38:36Oh well, Cameron skirted Fraser.
38:46Gassam.
38:47Twisting and turning.
38:49Another good take from Jean-Arnold.
38:52Yeah, he's always going to try and get on to that strong right side.
38:56He scored a few goals for Rangers already.
38:58And he's certainly...
38:59And he's got a good one.
38:59He's got a good one.
39:00He's got a good one.
39:00And he's got a good one.
39:01And he's got a good one.
39:03And well held.
39:04There'll be three extra minutes in this first half.
39:26Well, he's penalising, I think, Killian Phillips here for his challenge, maybe on John Souter.
39:34A bit of physicality there with Joe Rothwell and Mandron, he probably is in the end up, and I maybe argue he's standing his ground, John Souter fully focusing.
39:47On winning the header.
39:58Manuel Fernandes now for Jadon Magouba.
40:04Jadon Magouba with a recognised striker, I don't think it's helping Rangers today.
40:29The back three of St Mirren are pretty comfortable, because they know Asghar's not going to run away, he's not going to go in behind, he's not getting sharp movement, so...
40:38They're all pretty aware of where his movement is, and he's not getting midfield runners going beyond him either, so it's certainly something that Russell Martin has to adjust in his half-time team talk.
40:49Russell Martin with just three wins in his first eight games in charge, only two permanent managers of Rangers started that way, Paul Le Guin and Ali McQuist.
41:05Sorry, Goysti for mentioning that, I know he's watching.
41:11He'll enjoy that one Crocs.
41:17Fraser running on to this.
41:18Oh, Jadon Magouba was waiting for the cross, and Souter puts it behind for a corner.
41:24Well, he looks in real pain in terms of his mind and the amount of defending he's having to do.
41:35John Souter.
41:37Fraser just breaking the anchor from the right-sided centre-back of that three, and just breezing through the back line of Rangers.
41:44The final minute of the half, they couldn't, could they?
41:49Loaded in!
41:53Up in the air from Souter.
41:56His route was blocked, and there's some frantic defending in there, the Rangers just couldn't afford to concede a second.
42:03No, they couldn't, Ian, but I tell you, the set pieces, they're all over the place, they're so slow.
42:11And unreactive.
42:14Yeah!
42:45They're big, they're strong, they're physical, but these guys can play football.