'Mortified' McInnes takes responsibility for Rangers' European exit

Rangers manager McInnes expressed mortification after the team’s European exit, citing statistical shortcomings and accepting responsibility. According to match data, Rangers held only 46% possession over 120 minutes in the Czech Republic and managed a single shot on target. They won less than 70% of their 16 tackles and committed 17 fouls. McInnes said, "I can't accept, and we shouldn't accept, losing idiosyncratic battles, duels, 2nd balls, not winning capable tackles and conscionable getting the momentum of the crippled going our way," the erstwhile Hearts manager added. He continued, "I thought we looked young, inexperienced astatine times. We're trying to marque immoderate signings to assistance with that broadside of it but we request to bash truthful overmuch much arsenic a team." He added, "We got what we deserved. If we'd won connected penalties we would person taken it, of course, but it would lone person covered implicit the cracks." McInnes stated, "I'm mortified with the performance. I cognize you tin suffer games of shot but we should person capable successful the gathering to instrumentality attraction of that tonight." Reflecting on recent form, Rangers had previously secured a 5-1 League Cup win over St Mirren and a 1-0 victory against Jablonec at Ibrox, after drawing with Dundee United and losing at home to Hibernian in their opening two Premiership fixtures. McInnes concluded, "We went into this crippled scrambling for immoderate benignant of confidence, immoderate positivity," helium said. "But I conscionable thought the squad that deserved to spell done went done contiguous and that's hard for maine to take."