Rangers struggle to sell out Hampden semi-final ticket allocation for Motherwell game

Rangers supporters are furious with Philippe Clement’s side after suffering their latest Premiership defeat

Rangers fans have yet to sell-out their ticket allocation for Sunday’s League Cup semi-final encounter with Motherwell at Hampden Park - just four days before the match.

Rangers fans are struggling to sell out their League Cup semi-final ticket allocation | Getty Images

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Philippe Clement’s side face the Steelmen at the national stadium for a place in December’s Premier Sports Cup final, where the winners will play either Aberdeen or Celtic for the first piece of silverware on offer this season. However, sluggish ticket sales have meant the Light Blues have been forced to issue a late rallying call to angry supporters following their latest Premiership defeat.

The Gers’ woeful 2-1 loss against the Dons at Pittodrie on Wednesday night - a result that further intensifies the pressure on Clement - has left fans frustrated and furious with their side.

Philippe Clement's Rangers team lost 2-1 at Aberdeen. | SNS Group

Fed-up fans could be forgiven for being sick at the sight of another trip to Mount Florida after being forced out of their Ibrox home at the start of the season due to delayed construction works. And there are still tickets available for the Motherwell tie after being handed most of the Hampden capacity.

It’s hard to remember a time when Rangers fans didn’t sell out their allocation for a cup semi-final. And Clement’s bizarre post-match comments branding the Aberdeen defeat as as one of their BEST performance of the campaign to date won’t have done anything to lift the mood with an already incensed fanbase.

Responding to Rangers' tweet promoting the general sale tickets for Sunday, one fan wrote: “No thanks I'd rather lift leaves in the garden than watch this pitifully awful lot.” A second commented: “Don’t expect to sell many. The team is so bad people are losing interest,” while another stated: “I don't remember Rangers offering public sale of Cup semi-final tickets since the 1980s.”

It comes after Motherwell CEO Brian Caldwell confirmed in an interview with the Motherwell Times that the North Lanarkshire club had sold over 8,000 briefs in the East and South Stand for the last-four showdown and were due to receive an extra 300 tickets before the weekend.