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Smith urges Rangers to avenge 'worst ever' defeat

Source: The Guardian

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

• Rangers travel to Romania for must-win game
• Dan Petrescu places bet on Unirea to lose

Rangers' latest attempt at lifting the gloom which has descended on Ibrox comes against the opposition who triggered tales of their rapid decline. There may have been a freakish element to Unirea Urziceni's 4-1 win in Glasgow a fortnight ago but the fallout was epic.

With supporters voicing their concerns over the shortcomings in Walter Smith's team in their most vociferous fashion yet, the manager controversially admitted after the defeat by the Romanian champions that the Lloyds Banking Group was, in effect, running Rangers.

Although Rangers' performances have markedly improved since that Unirea debacle, they have to win tomorrow to retain any hope of progressing to the Champions League's knockout phase.

"It goes without saying that, to have any chance of winning this game, we have to do a whole lot better than in the first match against Unirea," Smith acknowledged. "We did not acquit ourselves at all well that night, it was our poorest European performance for a while. We

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