Down but Not Out . . . Yet Rangers Their Confidence Dented, the Ibrox Team Have an Uphill Struggle for Their Return Leg Matches in Europe, Says Michael Grant

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SOMETIMES a single word is enough to send a shiver running down the spine. For some it might be "Blair", or maybe "Griffin". For others "Katona" or "Andre" ought to do it. At Celtic, "Artmedia" can be enough to induce a thousand-yard stare and beads of sweat to form on the brow. At Rangers it used to be "Berwick", although at the moment that's probably been replaced by "administration".

For the time being, any mention of "Unirea" will also cause nothing but stress around Ibrox. The name Unirea Urziceni meant absolutely nothing to most people in Scottish football until August when the champions of Romania were drawn in the same Champions League group as Rangers. Still, we'd never heard of them, so they couldn't be up to much, eh? It was the combination of being routed at Ibrox, and against a club which too few people had respected, that made Unirea's 4-1 victory 12 days ago so hard for Rangers to swallow.

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Down but Not Out . . . Yet Rangers Their Confidence Dented, the Ibrox Team Have an Uphill Struggle for Their Return Leg Matches in Europe, Says Michael Grant

There was an own goal from Lee McCulloch and telling deflections off Kyle Lafferty and Steven Naismith for two of the other Unirea goals, but it would exhaust credibility to claim Rangers played well on the night ...

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