Former Ajax supervisor Aad de Mos has labelled Rangers defenders as 'silly' following repeated humiliation by the hands of the Dutch giants, Napoli and Liverpool over the course of the final two months.
Having misplaced 4-0 to Alfred Schreuder's facet on the opening day of the group levels, it would not have gotten a lot worse for the Gers with their 3-0 loss to Napoli two weeks later and a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool initially of October. But their 7-1 defeat to the Reds final week summed up the gulf in high quality on the Gentle Blues' return to the highest desk - needing a lot work to be carried out if they're to return to former glories; albeit acknowledging that they have been pitted in arguably the hardest group attainable.
However, Gio van Bronckhorst 's males have an opportunity to redeem themselves once they face Napoli subsequent Wednesday in Italy, earlier than internet hosting Ajax initially of November in what's more likely to be their final European tie for fairly a while. But de Mos believes that they stand no probability of a consequence towards the Eredivisie champions - citing Rangers' 'silly' defending as the explanation why they're consistently on the again foot.
"I learn that Ajax gamers have been speaking about how they improved in Europe as a result of they solely misplaced 4-2 in Italy after being hammered 6-1 at house," De Mos mentioned.
"The explanation it was solely 4-2 was that Napoli took all of their greatest gamers off. Ajax did look higher when Brian Brobbey got here on as a sub. He is excellent at holding up the ball and it's tough for defenders to play towards him.
"And he can carry Steven Berghuis, Dusan Tadic and Davy Klaassen into assault. He's a much better choice than Mohammed Kudus, who will get just some pleasure towards silly defenders like Rangers have who will run with him and depart areas.
"However towards high quality defenders at Napoli, they're far too intelligent for that."
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