Brian Laudrup reveals nagging Rangers regret he can't shake as he rues silly star who fell flat on his face

Rangers hero Brian Laudrup admits he's been left with lingering regret after watching his former team misfire during the Viaplay Cup Final in person.

The Danish icon was left miffed by Michael Beale's decision to start with Nico Raskin in reserve and reckons the same mistake cannot be replicated moving forward. Laudrup believes Celtic weren't at their free-flowing best but still had enough quality to see off their great rivals and edge closer towards another Treble.

And now Laudrup wants lessons to be learned for both Beale and his players moving forward. Speaking in his Daily Mail column, he said: "For Michael Beale and many of his Rangers players, Sunday's Viaplay Cup final will be a source of some lingering regrets. Celtic weren't particularly great at Hampden, I think that's fair to say, but they still thoroughly deserved the season's first trophy given the holes in the performance of their rivals.

"Midfield was the biggest issue for Rangers. In my mind, one lesson is that the energy and positivity of new signings Nicolas Raskin and Todd Cantwell must be front and centre for the remainder of this season. In the case of Raskin, in particular, I would have liked to have seen him involved much earlier against Celtic.

"I really felt he had the skillset to cause Ange Postecoglou's side some problems and said so last week. I like him a lot. That opinion hasn't changed after the way Sunday panned out. If anything, Raskin and Cantwell now appear even more important to the way ahead under Beale.

"Leaving Hampden, I had this nagging feeling that if something had changed at half-time, with fresher legs from these newer players who don't have a history of losing Old Firm games, then perhaps we might have seen more from