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Starting with the hosts, while Nuno Espírito Santo might have only arrived at the London Stadium a couple of months ago, the former Nottingham Forest boss already finds his position hanging by a thread. Rightfully coming under a huge amount of scrutiny over the weekend as they were blown away thanks to a 3-0 drumming away at a Wolves squad who sit rock-bottom of the table, the pressure on Santo's shoulders has now reached a boiling point.

"We work at the moment 24/7 for players," he said, "It's about decision making, it's about negotiations, it's about timing. We have some players in our mind but you have to be a little bit patient."

Happy Holidays everyone! Live From the Blue Seats is going to be back at it some time tomorrow, releasing the same day. Unsure what time, but we are aiming for tomorrow morning. Use this post to submit your questions for us, as there's a lot to talk about with this Rangers team. As always, we will be answering your questions as well.

"We want to have another conversation with the SFA," Thelwell told RangersTV. "We've been doing some analysis of our own over a much wider period and perhaps want to talk to them again about some of that detail for one reason and one reason only. "We want greater consistency, we want a greater quality and standard of refereeing and we want the focus to be on the football and not on the decisions.

Columbus Crew have granted permission for head coach Wilfried Nancy to speak to Celtic over their managerial vacancy, with the Scottish champions having already held talks with his representatives and believing he is open to a switch to Glasgow. (Sky Sports), external Celtic are in advanced talks to secure Nancy, 48, as their new manager, with majority shareholder Dermot Desmond making the Columbus Crew head coach their number one target. (Record), external

Rangers suffered a fourth straight defeat to open their Europa League campaign after being swept aside 2-0 by Roma at Ibrox. The Scottish giants' dour run in Europe continued as Danny Rohl followed up a 3-0 defeat to Brann in his first game in charge with another disappointing result on Thursday. Rohl had built some optimism with back-to-back domestic wins over Kilmarnock and Hibernian, but he clearly has more work to do after this defeat and losing to Celtic in the Scottish League Cup semi-finals.

With all the talk about the fine 5v5 process and their poor shooting luck, it seems the Rangers powerplay issues, or at least a deeper discussion on them, have slipped through the cracks, to use corporate speak. The powerplay has been talked about, but only in terms of their conversion rate ( dead last in the NHL at 11.1%). The Rangers are too skilled to have the worst powerplay in the NHL. Avoiding surface level analysis on the Rangers powerplay issues, there are some real concerns regarding the powerplay structure and personnel, going beyond base level shooting percentage discussion.

Rangers head coach Danny Rohl says it is "difficult to understand" why Celtic's Auston Trusty was not sent off in Sunday's League Cup semi-final for a "dangerous" challenge. The defender's foot appeared to catch Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland in the head as Rohl's side trailed 1-0. The head coach did not want to comment on Trusty's challenge immediately after the game, preferring to praise his players despite their 3-1 loss in extra time.

Image source, SNS An Old Firm semi-final is rarely a tepid affair and the Scottish League Cup final-four meeting between Celtic and Rangers did not disappoint. Celtic won 3-1 against 10-man Rangers after extra time to advance to the final against St Mirren - but there were wider narratives at play at Hampden for both clubs. Martin O'Neill is back as a caretaker manager at Celtic, and the win naturally increased thoughts - not least by the man himself - of the icon staying longer.

It's easy to find a lot of negative with the Rangers, so we try to focus on the positive. Though it's only 11 games, the Rangers have a lot of both going on. The defensive process as a whole is strong, with the Rangers looking like a top-10 team in terms of puck possession and play driving at 5v5. The problem is the offense is non-existent due to a number of factors, some that will work themselves out and some that won't.

Bad to worse for Rangers and Rohl! Awful marking from a set piece as Jacob Sorensen bundles the ball into the net, doubling Brann's lead! This is woeful stuff from the Scottish side. Appointed only on Monday, this is Danny Rohl's first game in charge of Rangers, who are 1-0 down at half-time to Norwegian side Brann. Emil Kornvig scored a tap-in at teh back post after a deflected cross.