INCREDIBLE.CRAZY. ONE OF THE WORST

Engels slams Aasgaard tackle: We can't have that on the pitch

- RYAN MCDONALD

ARNE ENGELS insists Thelo Aasgaard's red-card tackle was one of the WORST he's seen in football.

Rangers playmaker Aasgaard was sent for an early bath after planting his studs high into Anthony Ralston's groin during a frantic first half.

Ref Nick Walsh immediately reached for his top pocket and ordered the Norwegian offleaving Gers with a mountain to climb as they trailed 1-0 after Johnny Kenny's opener.

Engels was just yards away from the challenge that left Ralston in a heap. And the Belgian blasted: "Yeah, that was an incredible tackle. It was crazy.

"If you go into to somebody like that, that's just crazy, I think.

"You need to protect your team-mates. I was at a good angle to see it and it didn't really look good. Those tackles can't be on a football pitch.

"Was it one of the worst I've seen in my career? Yeah, probably one of the worst. We know that it's a really big game and there are going to be tackles and duels that are on the limit.

"And we also did that and that was also a positive thing about our intensity that we also showed that we were there.

"But those tackles can't be on a football pitch and you need to defend our players and that's what we did as a group.