With the 19′s league game clashing with the first team fixture I got my fix of youth football by taking in the 17′s game against Falkirk at Murray Park this afternoon. Falkirk have an excellent youth setup and it wasn’t a real surprise that the game ended all square, the Rangers side included the nine players that signed professional contracts yesterday, which means they will be full-time from the start of next season.
Rangers Under 19′s were second best in today’s youth league clash at Hibs Training Centre. The gale force conditions raised the argument of whether the game should go ahead in such conditions, there was very little football on show and on this occasion the players were blameless as the wind made things almost impossible. Rangers made one change from last week with Robbie Crawford coming in for Barrie McKay who was ill, the Ibrox side started with the gale force wind at their backs but with both side struggling to cope with the conditions very little of note happened in the early stages. There was almost half an hour gone before there was anything close to what could be called a decent attempt at goal, when Lewis McLeod headed a corner clear it landed at the feet of Adam Mitter who fired just wide of Alan Smith’s right hand post.
For the second time in as many weeks the Under 17′s sides from Rangers and Queen’s Park served up a close entertaining encounter at Murray Park. Rangers eventually making the game safe with a late third goal. The opening exchanges did not provide many clear scoring opportunities and twenty-five minutes were on the clock when the visitors created a chance from the inside right channel, shooting narrowly over. A minute later when a corner was cleared from the penalty area Ryan Sinnamon broke into the right side of the box before shooting across goal and wide of the far post.
With twelve minutes remaining in tonight’s Glasgow Cup match at Murray Park Rangers Under 17′s were staring at defeat, trailing Queens Park by two goal to nil they managed to turn things around with three goals in an eight minute spell for a unlikley victory. Where as the comeback showed great resilience and spirit it doesn’t hide the fact that for the previous 78 minutes they were second best.
Rangers 2 Kilmarnock 0 Rangers Under 19′s got their league campaign under way with a 2-0 win over Kilmarnock at Murray Park on Saturday morning. With the first team in action at Inverness I was unable to attend. After a goalless first-half Rangers took the lead through an own goal, with a Jack Werndly header from an Adam Hunter cross providing the second. Rangers:-Alan Smith; Gregor Fotheringham, Kyle McAusland, Kim Skogsrud, Tom Skogsrud; Adam Hunter, Kamil Wiktorski, Nicolaj Kohlert, Lewis McLeod; Callum Gallagher, Jack Werndly.
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