Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)

BLANK OF SCOTLAND

Toothless Gers suffer title blow

- BY GAVIN McCAFFERTY

have come back. Having said that, we STEVEN GERRARD admits his still had some big moments. Rangers side need to rediscover “First half down the right, two v one, their spark quickly after they Alfredo has got to find Ryan Kent. suffered another setback in the That was a big moment we should title race. score from.

Rangers were held to a goalless “And then Alfredo in the second half, home draw by Aberdeen to make it 99 times out of 100 he normally wins five Premiershi­p points dropped us the game in that situation. inside a week. “We are four points off the top but

The Light Blues struggled to get that’s not important unless we find going until about half-an-hour in and our spark. Aberdeen had some Aberdeen goalkeeper Joe Lewis denied moments as well, but I think that them on several occasions, notably came more from us, individual errors when he saved one-on-one with that gifted them an opportunit­y. Alfredo Morelos. “We need to find our spark very

But the Dons also had a number of quickly,” Gerrard added. “And we need opportunit­ies. Sam Cosgrove passed to keep going because I believe there up two excellent chances and Allan will be more twists and turns. McGregor made good saves from “There’s a few people around he Lewis Ferguson and Ash Taylor. squad who are capable of finding that

Gerrard, who was h i g h l y spark. They need to come with us.” critical of his side after When asked if they

LADBROKES PREMIER last weekend’s defeat by could afford any more Hearts, said: “I think as a slip-ups, Gerrard said: “If whole there wasn’t too you look at Celtic’s form, much wrong with the probably not. But I have performanc­e. We threw been round the game everything we had at it. long enough to know that

“I think we are missing there will be twists. a spark in the final “And remember there’s third. Not just today, still six points to play for over the four games we in Old Firm games.”

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