#player-confidence

#player-confidence

Maybe I have a theory to rotate because it's impossible to sustain but I had a lot of confidence in them and I still do. I have a huge value for what they are as football players. Maybe I think higher of them than they think about themselves. It was a good lesson for me, as experienced as I am as a manager it was a good lesson for me for the future.

The Toronto Maple Leafs ' lack of secondary scoring early on in the season was one of the main negative talking points surrounding the team, but Max Domi did his part to chip away at that narrative with two goals on Tuesday night. He scored the opening goal and the game-winner to help lead the Leafs to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames, and overall looked much more confident than he did in the first few weeks of the season.

More timidity to observe, more vulnerability in defence, more powder-puff stuff up front, more wide men running in ever decreasing circles. Another defeat, another performance that along with zero goals and zero points had zero positives. In the last few seasons, Rangers, for all their other faults at the time, went toe-to-toe with Athletic Bilbao, Benfica, Red Bull Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund.

I don't know what Jadon Sancho is doing at the moment though, Merson said. He's not running at anybody, not committing people and not taking chances! Sancho needs to stop playing it safe and has to take risks with the ball at his feet. If you lose the ball, no one cares. Try and make things happen instead of just passing it around.

Five league games, zero wins and 10th in the 12-team Scottish Premiership, Neil McCann's assessment that "a lot of things are going wrong at the minute" at Rangers is an accurate one. In the Ibrox side's latest dismal display - a first defeat at home to Hearts since 2014 - Russell Martin became the first Rangers head coach to fail to win any of his first five league games in 47 years.