Better outcome than I expected. Better performance than I expected. But way more frustrated than I expected to feel too.
Perfect start with the early goal and for what, the first hour, it was pretty routine stuff for Archer to deal with.
Tiredness was beginning to show but the temptation to simply hold on proved to be too tempting. We were already struggling to get up the park by that stage to take yet another option out of the equation just made the one way traffic incessant. The choice of replacement for Watt was definitely wrong. Cole, who has already scored at Ibrox or even Seedorf to take advantage of his pace seemed much more obvious choices.
Two opportunities to make proper clearances with Grimshaw initially and then Archer's weak clearance (some of his distribution incidentally was miles out) and a break of the ball later that was it. I suspect many would have felt at that point the game was up. Disappointing to concede the second from a corner when we had so many bodies in there defending and the third had that feeling of being academic.
I take some encouragement from the way they went about their business today. Effort couldn't be faulted. Bodies were put on the line to block shots and crosses but we ran out of steam, made poor choices I think with the changes, ran out of luck and here we are regretful at having fluffed an opportunity at Ibrox where you're a goal up with twenty minutes left.