With the 2019/20 Scottish Premiership campaign now over and with the new date for the start of the 2020/21 season. Each of the clubs will be looking back and evaluating their teams performance looking on areas to improve upon/work on before the start of the new season. The main focus for many is always the title race and this season at the top Celtic and Rangers fought valiantly before Rangers were unable to gain points in crucial games as Celtic opened a 13 point gap and won the title.
As part of a match analysis series, we will look back into these crucial games specifically dissecting Rangers’ league losses in the 2019/20 campaign evaluating the areas that enable teams to overcome The Gers. The first match analysis piece analysed Rangers loss to Celtic, we also analysed Rangers 2-1 loss to Kilmarnock, which leads us onto analysing the next and final crucial game which resulted in a Rangers 0-1 loss to Hamilton. In this tactical analysis, we will look at the tactics of both teams, and discuss how Rangers were very wasteful and missed a huge opportunity to win the game.
Lineups
Rangers set up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game a change from Gerrard’s usual 4-3-3. Along with the formation change he also made three changes to his side that lost 1-0 to Hearts in the Scottish Cup in their last game. The Rangers manager rejigged his midfield as Ryan Jack and Scott Arfield dropped out of his side and was replaced by Glen Kamara who started as a pivot and Ianis Hagi who played out on the right-wing. In attack, Ryan Kent made way for Hibs loanee Florian Kamberi who started on the left-wing.
Brian Rice in the opposite dugout set up his Hamilton team in their usual 4-4-2. The visitors made three changes their side who drew 0-0 with Motherwell in their previous game. Rice made two changes to his backline as Jamie Hamilton came into the heart of defence replacing Johnny Hunt. Scott McMann came into the left-back position which saw Scott Martin move up in a more advanced left-midfield position displacing David Templeton from the team. Hamilton’s last change was in the form of a young prospect Lewis Smith who operated on the opposite flank replacing Will Collar who dropped to the bench.
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