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Neither Russell Martin nor Danny Rohl were able to restore past glories in their short stints in Govan while McInnes was taking Hearts to the verge of immortality.<\/p>\n
Much of the condemnation surrounding the Ibrox club’s failures last season came back to the same theme – they may be fluid and clinical going forward at times, but a soft underbelly put paid to hopes of success.<\/p>\n
“I thought we gave up too many chances and gave teams too much encouragement,” the 55-year-old added post match in Poland.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to be honest and say we are guilty of beating ourselves tonight. And that’s no disrespect to our opponent because on transitions and counter-attack, it fuels them.”<\/p>\n
Rangers were flailing in the opening 45 minutes as Jagiellonia cut them open with ease, capitalising on numerous lapses in concentration.<\/p>\n
Twelve minutes into the game, Thelo Aasgaard tried an audacious spin on the edge of the hosts’ box, attempting to squeeze the ball through a small gap in the defence.<\/p>\n
One minute later it was in the back of Rangers’ net following an impressive counter.<\/p>\n
“There’s no bigger drain on confidence for any player, team, support than losing cheap goals,” McInnes said.<\/p>\n
“There were mistakes for the goals, and I understand that can happen, but we have got to be far more stingy with our work, defend the goal with our lives, don’t give our opponent opportunities. <\/p>\n
“At no cost is that ball going in our box, at no cost are they going to get a chance, and we’ve got to have a bit more of that approach to our work.”<\/p>\n
The central defensive partnership of Dujon Sterling and Emmanuel Fernandez looked particularly shaky.<\/p>\n
“If you spoke to McInnes right now without a microphone in front of him, and you asked him, ‘Do you trust Fernandez?’, there’s no way he says yes, no way,” former Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday said on BBC Sportsound.<\/p>\n
“But he doesn’t have an option at this moment in time to play someone else.<\/p>\n
“I’m being very critical here, but I think Fernandez has every attribute to be a top, top central defender, yet it looks as if he hasn’t had the education growing up of the basics of being a central defender.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n