Rangers expert disagrees with Michael Beale amid ‘big’ claim
Alan Hutton disagreed with Michael Beale’s claim that the Rangers players got caught up in the atmosphere at Pittodrie.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the former Gers defender said the Glasgow club have experience of playing in bigger atmospheres than what they experienced in Aberdeen.
The Light Blues suffered their second league defeat under Michael Beale on Sunday (23 April) in a 2-0 loss to Aberdeen.
As quoted by the Daily Record after the game (23 April), the Light Blues boss said one or two of his players “might have got caught up” with the atmosphere after Liam Scales’ strike from distance found the back of the net.
But Hutton disagreed with Beale’s assessment.
“I do not really know where that has come from,” he told Football Insider.
“I can’t imagine any sort of atmosphere up at Pittodrie making them stunned or a deer in the headlights or anything like that. I do not think it is anything to do with that.
“I think both teams [Celtic and Rangers] just had a bit of an off weekend. If you look at Rangers and the Celtic game, they had more than enough opportunities to go and win the game and it could have been different.
“Rangers had four or five good opportunities before Scales scored so they have to be more clinical.
“I do not think they would have been under any more pressure because of the crowd. They have dealt with big European nights, Old Firm games, finals. So I do not think that would have affected them.“
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