Aribo, Balogun fire blank as Lyon hit Rangers 2-0 at the Ibrox

 

Super Eagles duo Joe Aribo and Leon Balogun and their Rangers teammate suffered huge defeat in the Europa Thursday against Lyon.

Though the two Nigerians were in action for the entire duration of the match the Steven Gerrard boys failed to stop the visitors from singing a deserved victory song.

As if the headache of the night was not enough Aribo got a yellow card in the 74th minute of the match

Lyon made a clinical show of the match pocketing three points in style.

Karl Toko Ekambi produced a moment of real quality to give Lyon the lead midway through the first half.

Collecting the ball after Ryan Kent lost possession, the Lyon winger cut inside and curled an unstoppable shot into the far corner.

Kent then went closest to finding an equaliser for the home side, demanding a sharp save from Anthony Lopes just before the break, but the game was up when Lyon doubled the lead after 55 minutes.

After Houssem Aouar was denied by Allan McGregor, Islam Slimani’s stab towards goal was cleared off the line by Connor Goldson only for the ball to cannon into the luckless James Tavernier and into the net.

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If that wasn’t sufficiently unfortunate, Tavernier clipped a free-kick against the outside of a post as Rangers struggled to find a way back into the contest while Kent was forced off with injury

Rangers are at home to Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday. Their next Europa League game is away to Sparta Prague on September 30.