Rangers are in a title race but I still have 3 key questions

Rangers players applaud the supporters. <i>(Image: Stuart Wallace / Shutterstock)</i>
Rangers players applaud the supporters. (Image: Stuart Wallace / Shutterstock)
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Scott Allan insists Rangers are in a title race, although he has three key questions for Danny Rohl's men.

With four wins on the bounce, the Ibrox side sit second in the William Hill Premiership, three points off leaders Heart of Midlothian, who have played a game more.

While Allan believes Rangers are well in the fight to be crowned champions of Scotland, he has three questions about their players and fluidity.

"I can understand why you would think Rangers are in a title race," Allan said on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard. "They are. The players they get in, can they come in and strengthen the team?


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"Danny Rohl, no question, has come in and squeezed every bit of ability out of the players. There are still, for me, questions on some of those players. Will they be good enough long-term? Will they be good enough to be successful and win Rangers the title come the end of the season?

"Looking at Rangers as a team and how they play, I still don't quite know in the final third if they're that fluent. If I'm being honest, they're relying on individual moments and players producing for them.

"But, as a system, they're much more defensively structured, so they look as if they're not going to concede goals.

"[Emmanuel] Fernandez has been a threat from set pieces, so there's no getting away that that's been a big impact."

Rangers return to action on Sunday for the second of a double-header with Aberdeen as Rohl looks to make it five wins on the bounce.

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