Breaking News:Fewer touches than Butland: Rangers must drop a star who lost 9/9 duels
Glasgow Rangers are already five points adrift of the top two positions in the Scottish Premiership after they were beaten 3-0 in the Old Firm on Sunday.
The Ibrox giants travelled across Glasgow to take on Celtic at Parkhead and were comfortably beaten by their biggest rivals, leaving them with two wins from the first four matches in the division.
Daizen Maeda, Kyogo Furuhashi, and Callum McGregor scored the goals for the hosts, as Philippe Clement’s side failed to get on the scoresheet themselves.
There were a host of poor performers across the park for Rangers and one player who must be brutally binned from the starting XI is forward Vaclav Cerny.
Vaclav Cerny’s Old Firm struggles
The Czechia international, who joined on loan from Wolfsburg in the summer transfer window, was selected to start on the right flank in his first Old Firm clash on Sunday.
He quickly found out how difficult of a task it is to play in the forward line for Rangers in that fixture, and ended the game with fewer touches (44) than his goalkeeper Jack Butland (47), which shows how little of the ball he got.
As you can see in the table above, Cerny also struggled to make any sort of positive impact at the top end of the pitch and was a liability physically, losing all nine of his duels.
The left-footed flanker failing to register a single shot or key pass illustrates his lack of end product in the final third, as Kasper Schmeichel did not have a single thing to worry about with him.
Cerny was also tackled in all four of his dribble attempts because he was always looking to go back inside onto his left foot and it made him easily predictable, instead of varying his game to keep Greg Taylor guessing.
The player who should replace Vaclav Cerny
Clement should brutally drop the Wolfsburg loanee from the starting XI, due to his poor showing at Parkhead, and unleash the player who outperformed him off the bench.
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