Rush-hour madness then gave way to pyro-mania as the game finally got underway 45 minutes after the scheduled start.
Rangers may have had to negotiate a few potholes on their trip to Dundee but Scott Wright reckons there was no chance the Light Blues were going to hit the skids with Philippe Clement at the wheel. An eventful night on Tayside saw the Ibrox outfit turn up more than an hour late as traffic chaos around the City of Discovery clogged up the route from their pre-match base at St Andrews.
"We were hearing different messages from different people, we were wondering if the game was going to be on with the weather and then with the bus delay. It was far from ideal but we don’t want to make excuses for ourselves. All we wanted to focus on was putting on a performance and we did that. Clement now has three wins from three in the Premiership to go with the valuable Europa League point his side picked up in Prague last week. It’s been a near perfect start and Wright says that’s down to the manager’s non-negotiable demands.
SPFL bosses have taken a dim view of the blazing beacons that erupted from the away support in the Bob Shankly Stand, branding the pyro parade “very concerning and unwelcome”. "They turned out in fantastic numbers and sang superb throughout for us. Obviously there was a delay during the game. On the pitch, we as players didn’t actually know what was happening. The ref just kind of pulled us in. All we can do is focus on ourselves. When we went back in and made sure we came out and put in a strong performance. We wanted to get an early goal and we managed that.”
Wright said: “It’s something we’ve needed as a team. We’re always creating chances. In the first half, we’ve gone in a little frustrated, knowing we were only 1-0 up. We’ve created a good few opportunities and we hadn’t taken them. At half-time we spoke amongst ourselves and the manager pushed home that we need to take our chances. We were trying to get a more convincing win and I think we achieved that in the second half with our performance.
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