This report is written by Jonno from the Rangers Till i die web site.

Rangers can consider themselves a shade unlucky not to have got something from an entertaining game. The performance was a big improvement on Saturday, and we tried to play football for the whole game until the last few minutes when desperation tended to take over.

Richard Langley started the game and showed what a class player he is, but we still struggled with Griffiths and DouDou showing again that they just are not wide players. In fact, it was DouDou who was caught in possession trying to run the ball out of our penalty area which contributed to the first goal, as the ball was played to an unmarked Murray on the edge of the box who found the bottom corner of the goal with a well struck shot.

However, we managed to weather the home side's good start, and they failed to create any more real chances of note as we started to play the ball around well. Langley was at the centre of most things, and we stretched City's defence on a number of occasions but the final ball was either just not good enough, or when a decent cross did come in, and both Murphy and Forbes managed to fire in a couple, there was no one attacking them.

Young Richard Pacquette improved as the half wore on, and combined well with Gallen on a number of occasions without quite getting through a strong looking home defence.

A generally satisfying performance in the first period though was ruined when we conceded a second courtesy of a quite disgraceful decision by the linesman. Murphy had been booked (correctly) for a late challenge, and though we didn't clear the resultant free kick as we should have, the ball was played in to Thorpe who appeared to be yards offside, right in front of goal in the six yard box. Thorpe tapped it past Digby and looked as suprised as anyone else to see that the linesman had failed to raise his flag, and despite the vehement protests of the Rangers players the goal stood.

Ollie made no changes at half time, and we continued to dominate possession during the second half, with City content to hit us on the break with sporadic attacks. However, despite our good possession and generally accurate passing, attacks kept breaking down at the final ball, particularly as DouDou and Griffiths were unable to get past their man and cross a decent ball in.

There were some excellent passing moves in midfield though, with Langley linking well with the strikers, which is something which has been sorely missing, but again the final through ball was either cut out, or went astray. Holloway took off the youngsters Pacquette and Murphy just as it seemed we might pull a goal back - the young striker had just missed with a good attempt from the edge of the box which had beaten the keeper.

Sadly, that diminished our attacking options as Thomson, who came on up front, continually gave away possession where as Pacquette had been strong enough to retain it, and Warren (in place of Murphy) doesn't have the youngster's attacking qualities. Eventually DouDou, who had struggled throughout to have an impact in the wide midfield role to which he is clearly not suited, was replaced by Connolly, but by then the result was no longer in doubt as the game fizzled out.

Although we lost the game, we played well generally, much better than of late, and on another day might have had a goal or two - certainly we would have beaten Cambridge easily had we replicated tonight's performance last Saturday.There are still areas that need work, but tonight was a big improvement; there was an obvious attempt to pass the ball out of defence to feet, and Langley looked very good indeed in midfield until he inevitably tired. Had the second goal not been given we could well have got a point.

Man of the Match: Richard Langley

Players Ratings

Digby: 6/10, Forbes: 6/10, Murphy 6/10, Palmer: 6/10, Shittu: 6/10, Langley 8/10, Rose: 6/10, Griffiths: 6/10, Doudou: 6/10, Pacquette 6/10, Gallen: 6/10

Subs

Thomson 6/10, Connolly: 6/10, Warren 7/10