Michael Beale rages over Rangers defending 'horror show' and admits St Mirren goals will take days to get over

Michael Beale tore into his Rangers players for a defensive “horror show” against St Mirren - and warned he won’t stand for any repeats.

Hot on the heels of last week’s Old Firm defeat that saw Celtic capitalise on two blunders, the Ibrox side were guilty of another two lapses to let St Mirren fight back to 2-2 before Beale's side eventually saw out a 5-2 victory. The Light Blues boss read the riot act at half-time and afterwards claimed it was changes to shape and personnel made from the sidelines which led to victory. Two Alfredo Morelos goals and a Scott Arfield strike all in the last 10 minutes secured the points.

But the sloppiness infuriated the manager ahead of a trip to Pittodrie next Sunday, which comes ahead of the Scottish Cup semi final against Celtic. And Beale raged: “I thought we became passive. I was really annoyed with St Mirren’s first goal. Take nothing away from the boy O’Hara, it was a fantastic strike. But if you rewind it back, we had a four-vs-three in the attacking third. We were very wasteful in that moment – and our reaction from that was dreadful.

“From everybody – from Todd after shooting, from the reaction of people running back, the back four dropped off. There was a cross ball which we didn’t get out to.

“It was a horror show for us – and I told them that at half-time. I expected us to come out and be better in the second half. We scored again and you think: ‘Ok, we’ll settle down and go again’. But then we let in another sloppy goal. It was the changes from the side, the shape and the personnel, that won us the game.

“We lost a big game last weekend to two errors that we could do better with and this time we lost two goals with two poor moments. It’s not a good look on us as a team.

“It’s