As Rangers fall to an embarrassing defeat at home to Rangers on Sunday afternoon, we quickly analyse what went wrong on the day to have lead to this.
On Sunday afternoon, Rangers hosted Hibernian on match day two of the Scottish Premiership, in the third game of the Derek McInnes era, and the first at Ibrox.
Safe to say, it was not the start at home that the gaffer would have wanted, as a dagger from Hibs in stoppage time made it a losing start at Ibrox, and meant that overall, the McInnes era has started with a draw and two defeats.
Rightly or wrongly, a defeat (or just failure to progress) in the second leg of the Europa League qualifier at home to Jagiellonia on Thursday evening could see an extremely early managerial casualty. It feels harsh, but today was really poor, with the home backing too.
So, what went wrong on the day?
It was remarkable just how open Rangers were today. After just ten minutes of the game, Hibs managed to draw a penalty after a foul from new signing Vanja Dragojevic, which would be converted.
There were other opportunities for the visitors to score in the first half too, with Thibault Klidje going close just seven minutes from half-time, and Josh Mulligan going close from a corner in stoppage time.
In fairness, McInnes' side had chances in the first half too, which is a good segue way to the next point - the team is just so wasteful in the opposition box. Youssef Chermiti - who was said to have been the subject of a £22m bid from Turkish giants Galatasaray - missed a good chance to equalise straight after Hibs took the lead.
Barely even ten minutes later, he missed a presentable chance again, this time from an even better position, but his left-footed effort was kept out. You could see from the replays that the shot was not in the corner. Finding the corners is something he must improve on. Not long after, he went off injured.
Once again, the subs left a lot to be desired. Bringing on Thelo Aasgaard for Nicolas Raskin felt like just making an attack minded sub for the sake of it. Who was going to build up after that? It is not Cameron Devlin's game at all.
Then bringing on Ross McCrorie - a versatile player but ultimately a defensively minded one - for Findlay Curtis just over ten minutes from time, what was that all about? In a lot of ways, McInnes has been set up to fail in this job, but he really does not help himself with his so far poor in-game management.


