Neil McCann slams Rangers late-game tactics and questions 'country's best' James Tavernier decision

Neil McCann has slammed Rangers for their inability to create chances and their choice of substitutions against Dundee United.

The ex-Ibrox player was analysing their performance on BBC Scotland’s Sportscene, and honed in on a few key areas where he is worried about his former side’s attacking play. McCann reckons the lack of an attacking plan b, particularly when they were chasing a winner late in the game shows the side are out of ideas up top. He also questions Philippe Clement’s decisions in regards to substitutions, particualrly later in the game.

Sam Dalby had put Dunee United ahead before Vaclav Cerny’s second-half equalsier. The dropped points coupled with Celtic’s win has Clement’s side 11 points adrift of the league leaders, with their profiligacy in front of goal proving costly once again in the Scottish Premiership.

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“It intensifies the pressure, I have to say," McCann said on BBC Scotland’s Sportscene.

"There's lots to get into about Rangers' performance… but I'm concerned about the chanes they created.

“You expect Rangers to create chances and dominate the play at Ibrox, but that's not good enough; St Mirren have scored more goals, Dundee have scored more goals, Aberdeen, Celtic.

“So there's evidence there that they're not doing enough. There's not a variation in their attack. There's not enough quality from their left side and it’s almost predictable and one dimensional. Cerny grabbed that game by the scruff of the neck today, you’re looking at the subs, the last eight ot nine minutes — John Souttar is playing as a secondary striker.

“If you’re making your last sub and you’re take Bajrami off and you’re putting Igamane on to play left, why not put Igamane up top, Dundee United are sitting in, you’ve got one of the best crossers of the ball this country’s ever seen in James Tavernier, sitting on the bench. So, replace Sterling with Tavernier because you’re giong to dominate the ball, you get two strikers on, and you go try and find a winner.

“I think he got it wrong [tactically] at the end. It's almost as if he's changing personnel but it needed a change of attack. I don’t know if John Souttar has been told to go and stand up front for the last eight minutes, but I’d much rather have a striker in there.

“I just think today there wasn’t enough, for me, to say that this Rangers side are capable of totally dominating teams when they come to Ibrox and that is a concern.”