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Glasgow Rangers head coach Danny Rohl lost for the second time in as many matches in charge of the club in the Europa League against Roma on Thursday night.

The Italian giants came to Ibrox and won 2-0 under the lights, thanks to two first-half strikes, to make it three defeats in five matches for the new Light Blues boss.

It is hard to blame the former Sheffield Wednesday tactician for that dismal start to his career at the club, though, as he has had a tough run of fixtures, including this clash with Roma and a League Cup semi-final against Celtic.

Rohl has inherited a team that struggled badly under former manager Russell Martin, who only won five matches in all competitions during his time in Glasgow.

However, the German boss does have a chance to make it three wins out of three in the Scottish Premiership when his side travel to play Dundee away from home on Sunday.

With that match in mind, the Ibrox head coach must ruthlessly ditch centre-forward Youssef Chermiti from the starting line-up after an underwhelming performance on Thursday night.

Why Youssef Chermiti should be dropped by Rangers

The £8m summer signing from Everton has now produced one goal and one assist in 12 appearances in all competitions for the Light Blues in the 2025/26 campaign.

His goal, as shown in the clip above, was aided by some fairly questionable goalkeeping, and his assist was a simple pass to Danilo, who took a brilliant touch and scored from the edge of the box.

The Portugal U21 international has not provided enough quality in the final third to justify his price tag, yet, and his performance against Roma did little to convince supporters that he has been a good addition to the squad.

Roma had Artem Dovbyk leading the line for them at Ibrox and the gulf in class between the Ukraine international and Chermiti in their respective displays was staggering.

Whilst the Serie A marksman, who scored 17 goals for Roma last season (Sofascore), provided the perfect foil for his team to build attacks from, Rangers could not rely on Chermiti to bring others into play.

As you can see in the table above, Dovbyk was almost perfect in possession and created four chances for his team on the night, including one for the second goal, whilst the Gers striker did not create any chances for his side and was a bit loose with his passes.

The former Everton forward also struggled in the 3-1 loss to Celtic at Hampden Park on Sunday. Pundit Michael Stewart bemoaned his “poor” finishing after the attacker spurned two huge opportunities to find the back of the net in the first half.

Therefore, Rohl should drop him from the starting line-up to take on Dundee in the Premiership on Sunday and unleash Danilo, who has scored in each of his last two appearances in the Premiership under the German head coach.

Chermiti is not the only underperforming Rangers player who should lose his place in the starting XI for that trip to Dundee before the international break, though.

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The former Bayern Munich and Southampton assistant manager should also ruthlessly ditch left-sided defender Jayden Meghoma from the side, after another disappointing showing.

Why Danny Rohl should drop Jayden Meghoma for Rangers

Rohl should drop the defender from the team after he decided to withdraw him from the game at half-time in order to change formation and move Max Aarons to left-back.

The Rangers head coach opted to move away from a 3-4-2-1 formation to chase the game with a 4-3-3, which meant that Aarons moved from right wing-back to left-back and James Tavernier moved from right centre-back to right-back.

Rohl deciding to move Aarons, who is a right-footed right-back, over to left-back instead of moving Meghoma back into a left-back position in a back four suggests that he was less-than-pleased with the Brentford loanee’s contributions in the first half.

As you can see in the table above, it is easy to understand why the manager may not have been too impressed by the wing-back’s first-half showing, as the 19-year-old flop failed to win a single duel.

Meghoma offered very little to the team in or out of possession in the opening 45 minutes, with no key passes, dribbles, tackles, interceptions, or duels won for the Scottish giants.

The Scotsman handed the youngster a player rating of 4/10 for his performance against Roma and wrote that he looked ‘out of his depth’ as an ‘untested’ youngster, which is hard to disagree with, given Rohl’s decision to withdraw him at half-time and his dismal statistics.

After the 3-1 loss to Celtic in the League Cup last weekend, Football FanCast suggested that the left-back may be on borrowed time in the starting XI because he was caught out defensively for the opening goal from Johnny Kenny, as shown in the clip below.

Meghoma was also caught out aerially from a set-piece in the 3-0 defeat to Brann in Rohl’s first match in charge, when he allowed Jacob Lungi Sorensen to get the run on him to score from a free-kick.

The teenage defender, who has won 25% of his aerial duels in the Premiership (Sofascore), has not proven that he can be a reliable option for the Light Blues at this moment in time, and the change at half-time on Thursday suggests that the manager trusts Aarons ahead of him in a back four.

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Dominic Lund

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Therefore, Rohl should ruthlessly ditch Meghoma and Chermiti in order to unleash Aarons at left-back in a back four and Danilo up front against Dundee on Sunday.

تحدث حمد المقبالي حارس مرمى منتخب الإمارات، عن التعادل مع منتخب مصر في بطولة كأس العرب 2025 اليوم السبت.

وتعادل منتخب مصر مع نظيره الإمارات بهدف لكل فريق في الجولة الثانية من دور المجموعات من بطولة كأس العرب.  وقال المقبالي، عبر قناة “بي إن سبورت”: “اليوم لم يحالفنا الحظ، سعينا وسجلنا، لكن الكرة لم تنصفنا اليوم، ونقطة أفضل من لا شيء”.

طالع | شيكابالا: أنتظر تكرار سيناريو الأرجنتين مع منتخب مصر في كأس العرب وتابع: “نقطة أمام المنتخب المصري الكبير والقوي جدًا والشرس في الملعب، وسنركز في مواجهة منتخب الكويت ونحصد بطاقة التأهل، وستكون مباراة نهائية”.

وسيلعب منتخب الإمارات في الجولة المقبلة أمام الكويت، فيما يلتقي منتخب مصر أمام الأردن.

أكد آرني سلوت، مدرب نادي ليفربول، أنه يريد بجانب لاعبي فريقه مصالحة جماهير الريدز، وذلك قبل مباراة سندرلاند بالدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

ويعتقد سلوت في حديثه إلى موقع ليفربول الرسمي، أن الانتصار الذي حققه فريقه على وست هام يوم الأحد الماضي كان خطوة في الاتجاه الصحيح بالنسبة للريدز.

ليفربول سوف يستضيف نظيره سندرلاند مساء اليوم الأربعاء على ملعب آنفيلد، ضمن الجولة الـ14 من عمر الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز على ملعب آنفيلد.

ويسعى ليفربول لمواصلة صحوته بعد الانتصار على وست هام، والذي كسر سلسلة سلبية من الهزائم المتتالية لرجال سلوت.

وقال سلوت: “لن يحتاج أي شخص يحضر هذه المباراة إلى أن أخبره أن أدائنا الأخيرين أمام جماهيرنا لم يرق إلى المستوى المطلوب، دون أن أطيل الحديث عن تلك المباريات، من الواضح أن هذا أمر لا نريد تغييره فحسب بل نحن بحاجة إلى تغييره جذري”.

وأضاف: “كلمة مستوى أساسية في وضعنا الحالي، يتعلق الأمر بالمستوى الذي وضعناه لأنفسنا الموسم الماضي والتوقعات التي وضعها النادي لنفسه لسنوات عديدة سابقة، هذا لا يضمن دائمًا نتائج جيدة ولكنه بالتأكيد يعزز فرصنا في تحقيقها، هكذا كان الحال دائمًا وهو كذلك الآن بالتأكيد”.

وأوضح: “لهذا السبب كان فوز يوم الأحد على وست هام خطوة في الاتجاه الصحيح بعد هذه الفترة الصعبة، لم تكن أفضل مباراة خاضها فريق ليفربول على الإطلاق، ونعلم أن هناك حاجة إلى مزيد من التحسينات ولكن الأداء كان المطلوب في ظل هذه الظروف”.

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وأردف: “حافظنا على نظافة شباكنا، ولم نمنح أي فرصة حقيقية لوست هام باستثناء الدقيقة الأخيرة ، وبذل اللاعبون جهدًا كبيرًا من بداية المباراة وحتى صافرة النهاية، علاوة على ذلك، سجلنا هدفين رائعين منحانا المكافأة التي نستحقها في ذلك اليوم”.

وتابع: “هذه هي أبرز ما قدمناه كفريق وفوق كل ذلك، حظينا بدعم يحدث فرقًا كبيرًا في مثل هذه الأوقات، إلى كل من سافر إلى لندن ليقدم لنا هذا الدعم، لا يسعني إلا أن أشكركم جزيل الشكر”.

وواصل: “لقد مررنا جميعًا باختبار صعب في الأسابيع الأخيرة، ومع ذلك استطاع المشجعون تجاوز خيبة أملهم ودفعنا للأمام، كنت أعرف قبل قدومي إلى ليفربول أن جماهيرنا معروفة بهذا، لكن معايشة ذلك عن كثب أمر مميزٌ حقًا مع أنني كنت أتمنى ألا يكون ولاءكم قد خضع للاختبار كما حدث مؤخرًا”.

واستكمل: “في الشوط الأول من المباراة ضد وست هام سمعت هتاف الأبطال من جانب الفريق الضيف في أكثر من مناسبة، وقد جسد هذا الهتاف روح التحدي التي سنظل بحاجة إليها في الأيام والأسابيع القادمة”.

وقال: ”نعم، أعلم أن هذه الأغنية تغنى بدافع الفخر لما حققناه معًا في الموسم الماضي، لكنها في هذه الفترة تكتسب معنىً إضافيًا بالنسبة لي ، معنى ذكرنا بهويتنا وما نؤمن به”.

وأضاف: ”ليس من قبيل الصدفة بالنسبة لي أن هذا النوع من التحدي في المدرجات لاقى صدى في الملعب، في لحظة عصيبة وقفنا جميعًا معًا وقاتلنا من أجل ليفربول، هذه الروح قادرة على المضي قدمًا، حتى بعد فترة سأكون أول من يعترف بأنها لم تكن كافية”.

وأوضح: ”التحدي الآن هو البناء على هذا الفوز، لا يمكننا أن نصدق أننا تجاوزنا مرحلة صعبة أو أن التعافي قادم، علينا أن نبقى متواضعين وأن نعمل بجد وأن نواصل الكفاح، إذا فعلنا ذلك، فربما نتمكن من مواصلة اتخاذ الخطوات الصغيرة للأمام وهي خطوات ضرورية للغاية”.

وأردف سلوت في حديثه: ”أود أن أرحب بريجيس لو بري ولاعبيه وجهازه الفني بالإضافة إلى جماهير سندرلاند ومجلس إدارته، في ملعب أنفيلد لمباراة الليلة، إن ما قدموه في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز هذا الموسم يعكس بشكل إيجابي للغاية أداء جميع أفراد النادي بعد صعودهم إلى الدوري الممتاز في مايو الماضي”.

وتابع: ”أكد فوز سندرلاند على بورنموث يوم السبت على العديد من الصفات التي لا تزال تميزهم في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، نتوقع منهم أن يصلوا بثقة عالية وعزم على تعزيز سمعتهم”.

واختتم سلوت: ”علينا أن نكون مستعدين وأن نظهر رغبتنا في تحسين وضعنا الحالي، إذا تمكنا من تحقيق ذلك فسنرى إلى أين سيقودنا”.

Robert Lewandowski claimed Barcelona are now even 'stronger' after making a long-awaited return to their iconic Camp Nou home with a 4-0 thrashing of Athletic Club. The Polish forward opened the scoring early in the game before Ferran Torres grabbed a brace and Fermin Lopez netted for the Blaugrana as they kept up the defence of their La Liga title.

• Dream return to Camp Nou

  Barcelona returned to Camp Nou on Saturday after a two-year exile due to the renovation of the venue. Hansi Flick's side marked the comeback to the iconic stadium with a memorable 4-0 win over Athletic Club in La Liga. Lewandowski scored the opening goal in the fourth minute before Torres doubled the team's lead at the stroke of half-time.

  Shortly after the break, Lopez added a third goal before Torres completed the demolition with a second strike in the 90th minute to seal important three points for the Blaugrana. 

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  'We're a slightly stronger team'

  Speaking to after the match, Lewandowski said: "We were returning to Camp Nou, and it was a special day for us. We're very happy to be able to play here. From the beginning, we played very well, scoring two goals in the first half and another two in the second. We added three more points, although the most important thing is that we're back here. Simply because it's a different experience when we play here."

  He added: "We were determined to attack from the start. So it felt special to score the first goal. I'm very proud. We have a very good team and now we have to look ahead. When we play at Camp Nou, we're a slightly stronger team."

• Williams faced hostility

  Nico Williams was strongly linked with a move to Barcelona in the summer transfer window until he decided against signing for the Catalan giants at the last moment and signed a new contract at Athletic Club. Thus, Barcelona fans were naturally angry at the Spain international winger as he faced hostility from the home crowd during the game.

  At full-time, Williams' team-mate Inigo Ruiz de Galarreta told reporters: "I was expecting this atmosphere, and I saw him calm. We’re gutted. We knew we had to do everything perfectly and that they had to have an off day. We have to pick ourselves up quickly because we have a game on Tuesday. Any mistake is punished against players of that calibre, even more so. Missing any game is a real bummer, and I’m gutted about it."

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  Why did Rashford miss Athletic Club clash?

  Rashford has reinvented himself under Flick at Barcelona after being frozen out at Manchester United under head coach Ruben Amorim. The England international move to the Catalan side in the summer transfer window on a one-year loan with an option to buy him permanently next season. Rashford has made a dream start to his journey with Barca and has also returned to the national team set-up.

  Unfortunately for Barcelona, he was ruled out of the clash at Camp Nou on Saturday after catching the flu. The official statement from the club read: "Marcus Rashford will miss today’s match against Athletic Club due to [the] flu."

  Flick will now hope that Rashford recovers quickly and is well enough for the trip to Chelsea on Tuesday in the Champions League and for their home La Liga encounter with Alaves next Saturday.