Will a change of manager point out a change of fortune for the Ibrox side rangers?
Sunday evening, after the home loss of the weekend in the hands of St Mirren, it was announced that Philippe Clement had been dismissed as manager of the Gers, having been, because Findlay Marks of the Scottish Football Show Put it, a “dead dead” since the release of the Scottish cup in the hands of Queen’s Park.
The next morning, the club confirmed that former captain Barry Ferguson, who made 409 appearances For the Gers through two spells, would be in charge of acting for the rest of the season, alongside Neil McCann, Billy Dodds and Allan McGregor, who are all also ex-players.
Wednesday, the Ferguson era begins at Rugby Park, a land to which the Rangers lost Six of the 12 visits Since December 2017, they certainly cannot take Kilmarnock lightly, and the first major decision of the new boss of the goalkeeper should be to drop a faithful of the initial training.
The star of the Rangers Ferguson must fall
Jack Butland joined the Rangers in June 2023, simply trying to invigorate his career, after playing just 17 games During the previous three seasons, passing the second half of the warming of the previous country bench in Manchester United.
Just saying that he made an instantaneous impression in Glasgow, making an exceptional backup channel, instantly known under the name of “Super Jack Butland”.
It is because, Christopher Jack of Rangers criticism believes that he “was a huge figure between the sticks”, saying that Butland is “the best Scotland goalkeeper at a certain distance”, while Stephen Halliday of the time Simply labeled its performance as “exceptional”.
Waiting for, Ewan Murray by The Guardian note that English has been a “practically a present since its participation”, while Archie Rhind-Tutt de Espn & TNT SPORTS thought that his “excellent form” would win him a reminder in England, not having presented for the three lions Since September 2018Although it did not ultimately happen.
However, more recently, as Joshua Barrie de la Revue des Rangers The said, “the form of Butland has suffered”.
Speaking on Sky SportsNeil McCann, deputy director of the new Rangers, described his performance to Motherwell in December as “unconvincing”, the “blushes of the goalkeeper spared” by the fact that the Steelmen had a late winner rejected by Var for Tony Watt.
Butland made some high -level mistakes, offering Celtic the Scottish Cup in May with the former striker of the Rangers Ally McCOIST Describe your own goal to Old Trafford in January as “howler”, leading to Journalist Luke Hatfield Labe it “subject to errors”.
This led him to be strongly criticized by supporters, so let’s analyze how butland figures are comparing this season.
Butland 2023/24 vs 2024/25 Comparison | ||
|---|---|---|
Statistics | 23/24 | 24/25 |
Apparitions | 58 | 35 |
Minutes | 5 220 | 3,180 |
Missed matches | 1 | 9 |
Conceded objectives | 53 | 34 |
Objectives conceded by 90 | 0.89 | 0.93 |
Sheets | 25 | 14 |
Leaf | 43.5% | 41.4% |
Backup | 105 | 62 |
To safeguard % | 73.9% | 69.4% |
Post -Shot XG – Authorized goals | +1.9 | -1.4 |
Save% (Europa League only) | 77.1% | 63% |
As the table describes it, Butland’s statistics are unanimously worse this season that the last, with its post -Shot XG -The goals made it possible to take place from almost +2 to around -1.5, C ‘ is the largest indicator of its shaping.
The expected post-Shot (PSXG) goals are a metric used to determine the probability of a goalkeeper to save a shot.
So, should the new manager Ferguson unleash the Rugby Park MP on Wednesday evening?
Jack Butland’s back-up ready and waits for Rangers
At the beginning of January, but Butland missed the old New Year’s company due to internal bleeding, a match in which the Rangers demolished the fierce Celtic 3-0 rivals, by far their best performance under Clement.
The abolition of Butland that day was Liam Kelly, which was described as “Reliable” and “insured with the ball at its feet”, while Laura Brannan from The Scottish Football Show Considers that the 29 -year -old is a “fantastic” goalkeeper.
In addition to a white leaf in the Glasgow derby, Kelly also appreciated the whitening against Dundee and Aberdeen leading, as indicated by Aasif Rahman of the Football InitiateSupporters wondering why Clement restored but the sub-study “proven itself” during the absence of English.
Since his arrival from Motherwell in summer, Kelly has done Seven appearances In a Rangers jersey, keeping three white sheets and conceding only six goals, Make new stopsThis results in a 69.2%safeguard percentage, greater than the aforementioned season of butland of 63%.
Kelly himself said “I did well”, adding that he “seeks to go under the radar” by doing “everything I need to do when called”.
Thus, with little to play in first, Ferguson should certainly offer his safeguard goalkeeper the opportunity to prove what he can do.
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