Scoreboard Spotlight pundit Daris Nesbitt has given his thoughts on the latest European results for Scotland\u2019s clubs, describing Rangers\u2019 result as the worst of the night while praising Hibs and Motherwell.<\/p>\n
Speaking after Thursday night\u2019s European matches, Nesbitt felt Rangers\u2019 latest setback was particularly disappointing after they had given themselves an opportunity to get back into their tie.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cYou look at the results tonight for the Scottish teams and you must say the worst one\u2019s got to be Rangers out of all of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cRangers tonight, that\u2019s a bad, bad one for Rangers. Yet again, you\u2019d think, right, they lost the first leg in Poland, they lost at home to Hibs in the league, you know, you think for Rangers\u2019 sake to kick on, then they get the goal, you\u2019re like, right, 1-0, 2-2 in the tie with the crowd, and you\u2019re like, that\u2019s just terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The result means Rangers will now continue their European campaign in the Conference League, where Nesbitt said they will play Jablonec.<\/p>\n
He believes the Europa League is a more suitable level for both Rangers and Celtic, with the Champions League representing a significant increase in the standard of opposition.<\/p>\n
| Team<\/th>\n | Next European challenge<\/th>\n | Daris Nesbitt’s view<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Celtic<\/strong><\/td>\n| Champions League play-off<\/td>\n | Believes the Champions League is a major step up in class and feels the Europa League is probably a more suitable level for Celtic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Rangers<\/strong><\/td>\n | Jablonec – Conference League<\/td>\n | Highly critical of their latest result. He also believes the Europa League is probably the level Rangers should be playing at.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Hibs<\/strong><\/td>\n | Conference League qualifying<\/td>\n | Optimistic. He believes Hibs have a good chance of reaching the Conference League league phase and says they could have received a much harder draw.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Motherwell<\/strong><\/td>\n | Freiburg – Conference League<\/td>\n | Expects Freiburg to probably progress, but believes Motherwell can give them a closer game than many people expect and will not go out without a fight.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Hearts<\/strong><\/td>\n | Rapid Vienna – Conference League<\/td>\n | He mentions Hearts’ next opponents but does not give a clear prediction on whether they will progress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | \n Predictions and views are those of Scoreboard Spotlight pundit Daris Nesbitt.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nesbitt said: \u201cI think the Europa League is where both Celtic and Rangers probably should be.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Champions League is, you know, an absolute step up in class, the teams that they play against.\u201d<\/p>\n While critical of Rangers, Nesbitt was impressed by Hibs and Motherwell after both continued their Conference League qualifying campaigns.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cLet\u2019s not forget Hibs and Motherwell tonight, fantastic. That\u2019s Hibs and Motherwell navigated through a few qualifying rounds in the Conference League.\u201d<\/p>\n Nesbitt watched part of Motherwell\u2019s match and was impressed by their football.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cMotherwell, I watched a bit of the Motherwell game tonight, I thought they played some absolute excellent football. I think they\u2019re in for another great season.\u201d<\/p>\n He also praised the way Hibs approached their away match, believing they adapted as the game progressed and were comfortable turning it into more of a battle.<\/p>\n Nesbitt said: \u201cHibs, you know, they just grinded that out tonight, and it suited them to a tee.<\/p>\n \u201cHibs kind of, as the game gradually went on, just made it more and more and more, kind of like a, just a wee bit of a battle, and just got stuck in, and it suited them to a tee, going over there and getting 0-0.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking ahead, Nesbitt believes Motherwell face a difficult challenge against Freiburg but expects the Scottish side to compete.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI think Motherwell can give Freiburg a closer game than people think. I think Freiburg will probably win, but Motherwell will give them an alright game.\u201d<\/p>\n He was more optimistic about Hibs\u2019 prospects and believes their draw gives them a realistic opportunity to progress.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI think Hibs have got an alright chance of making the Conference Group stages, or the League even, sorry. They could have got far worse, in terms of opponents.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Hibs can do it. I think Hibs could make the Conference League, that\u2019s my thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n Nesbitt also said Hearts will face Rapid Vienna, while Rangers will meet Jablonec and Celtic are preparing for their Champions League play-off.<\/p>\n He finished by returning to Rangers\u2019 result, saying: \u201cAbsolutely shocking by Rangers tonight, that\u2019s terrible by them.\u201d<\/p>\n The comments are Daris Nesbitt\u2019s own assessment of Thursday night\u2019s European football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scoreboard Spotlight pundit Daris Nesbitt has given his thoughts on the latest European results for Scotland\u2019s clubs, describing Rangers\u2019 result as the worst of the night while praising Hibs and Motherwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[263,262,16,1759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europa-conference-league","category-europe","category-football","category-uefa-europa-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","joomsport-thmb-medium":"","rn-home-thumb":"","rn-home-rect":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Newsdesk","author_link":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/author\/newsteasm\/"},"category_info":"Europa Conference League<\/a> Europe<\/a> Football<\/a> UEFA Europa League<\/a>","tag_info":"UEFA Europa League","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186081,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186080\/revisions\/186081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renfrewshire24.co.uk\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |