Well, Rangers haven’t won the Europa League final.
There was heartbreak for the Gers in Seville as Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side lost in a penalty shootout to Eintracht Frankfurt, after the game finished 1-1 after two hours of football.
Aaron Ramsey missed the decisive penalty for Rangers on a night where the Scottish Premiership outfit actually took the lead through Joe Aribo.
Toward the end of extra time, Ryan Kent had a brilliant chance to snatch victory for the light Blues, only to be denied by the legs of goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.
It was one of the rare moments where Kent got himself into a promising position tonight.
And Don Hutchison believes that his Rangers teammates didn’t get the ball to him anywhere near enough.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “I don’t think Rangers played it to Ryan Kent enough. Eintracht were there for the beating. Maybe it was a bridge too far. It was there to be won.”
Kent, a former Liverpool player, will be devastated.
He didn’t take one of Rangers’ five penalties, and therefore didn’t miss, but Hutchison is right in saying that he simply wasn’t in the game all that regularly.
This is a player linked with Leeds United again in recent weeks, among others.
And his reported suitors won’t have been blown away by his performance tonight, it has to be said.
In the semi-final, RB Leipzig boss Domenico Tedesco singled out Kent as one of Rangers players he was wary of coming up against and that’s because, on his day, he is certainly a dangerous player.
But for whatever reason, the 25-year-old couldn’t show his best in Rangers Europa League final today and that’ll linger on his mind for a while no doubt.
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