£8M man shines as Rangers toil to tough win | OneFootball

This is one of those rare occasions where Ibrox Noise is smug and annoying to proudly say ‘we told you so’.

That’s right, we were effectively the only fan group who never stopped believing in John Lundstram, and while we acknowledged his performances hadn’t been magical yet, we refused to turn on him like 99% of the fans did, and now that’s paying dividends after the ex-Utd man shone two matches running to be definitively Rangers’ best performer in recent fixtures.

It’s clear the lad needed a bit of time, but he is evidently benefitting from the resting of Steven Davis, who it’s starting to emerge he struggles to perform alongside.

His display today was strong and articulate – a strong 86% passing accuracy, as well as 3 dribbles, and a stunning 5 accurate long passes out of 10 not to mention some tackles and blocks confirmed this as his best outing yet, and he played a crucial role spreading the ball wide for the goal.

We didn’t just have Rangers fans smearing Lundstram as a donkey, Sheffield Utd supporters in their droves were eager to tell us how cack he was, and he would be a failure for us.

Sorry, we weren’t buying that a guy with that much PL and Championship experience with a market value above £8M was in actual fact ‘p*sh’.

He’s very much been made the scapegoat this season, but the biggest reasons for his troubles is that for some reason, he’s not a good foil for Davis. Indeed, we suspect he does the Davis role well alone, and had to adjust his game to fill in alongside the NI star.

Which is no diss to Davo, he’s been magical for us since his return, but he is aging now, and Lundstram has shone in the past two matches more than the former captain has all season.

We can only see John improving and digging those heels in.

He desperately wanted this move, wanted this manager, and ok, he didn’t get the CL he craved, but there’s still time for that one next season.

He’s now showing why we wanted him.

And silencing all the doubters.