Beam me up, Scotty - Rangers & Scotland CM Story

Slip up against Hibs, good draw in Spain and another victory against Celtic.  It seems that things are going well on balance.  Presumably, the Hibs result isn't that bad in this context.

You must be favourites to progress against Vallecano in the return leg.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:

Slip up against Hibs, good draw in Spain and another victory against Celtic.  It seems that things are going well on balance.  Presumably, the Hibs result isn't that bad in this context.

You must be favourites to progress against Vallecano in the return leg.

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Well, the draw in Spain WAS in fact the return leg. Having won 2-0 at home, with the first goal against the run of play and the second coming after a sending-off for Rayo. I'll play Spurs next, in the last 8 of the competition.

The Hibernian draw did invite Celtic back in, but beating them in between the two Rayo games was certainly helpful and keeps Celtic 4 points behind.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:
So it was. Dunno how I missed that. It's not so easy to track stuff on this site as it was on the forum, or maybe it's my age...

Spurs is going to be a difficult one.

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Don't worry about it. Keeping track on a couple of saves, providing feedback for the one posting them, sometimes you'll miss a thing or two.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:
I don't understand how this works. How do you get to play St Mirren, if they aren't in the Championship Group? I thought the end of season grouping meant that teams in each group only played each other...?

Presumably, Celtic are top because they have more wins...?

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Glad you asked mate. St.Mirren was match 33, so the final game of the "regular season", before the league was divided in top and bottom groups. So you are on point assuming that the clubs in the top half only play their final five games against other clubs in the top.

Celtic first, I think it's down to alphabetic order, to be honest. I had my doubts last season, where I lead on goal difference, and I couldn't tell if the goal difference counted the full season or only the championship group. Now it seems that only the points are carried over, whilst goals for and against is reset before the final five games.