Rangers ‘have not performed sufficient’ admits McInnes after Europa League defeat

Rangers ‘have not performed sufficient’ admits McInnes after Europa League defeat

August 14, 2026


Rangers supervisor Derek McInnes admitted that his aspect didn’t need to progress after an embarassing Europa League defeat to Jagiellonia Bialystok.

Rangers captain Lawrence Shankland levelled the tie on combination with an early penalty however a second half header from Nik Prelec was sufficient for the Polish aspect to undergo.

Rangers will now drop into the Convention League playoffs and face FK Jablonec of the Czech Republic subsequent week.

McInnes advised Rangers TV: “I’m disenchanted that we’ve exited the Europa League. The chance is gone and now we have to say we haven’t performed sufficient over each legs to advantage getting by way of.

“I believed we have been good worth for 1-0. I believed that they had a couple of scary moments however I simply assume the place we’re in the intervening time, as a staff, I believed the objective would assist us. We modified the form to attempt to get Djeidi Gassama and Daisuke Yokota extra concerned.

“We stopped taking part in into our strikers and misplaced a little bit of management of the sport. At 1-0 the sport is within the steadiness, we’ve nonetheless bought all of it to do. We needed to step it as much as go and get the following objective, and we by no means did.

“The objective was systematic of the sorts of targets we’ve misplaced all through pre-season.”

McInnes continues to be ready for his first win in control of Rangers after becoming a member of from Hearts in the summertime.

“I believe it was justified to be sincere,” he says. “What we served up within the second half was not ok.”



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