A night of abject humiliation for Derek McInnes and his Rangers team. A night of total ineptitude and failure against a team of no-marks from the Czech Republic.

A night where Rangers produced 120 minutes of the most wretched football imaginable. In the end, this was a night which shortens the lifespan of managers.

McInnes cannot hide from this. He should not be spared once the inquest begins. If the failure to overcome Jagiellonia Bialystok in the Europa League qualifiers was bad enough, this was on a whole different level.

Jablonec were third-rate opposition in a third-rate competition. Yet, still, Rangers could not secure a place in the UEFA Conference League.

They will now have no European group-stage football for the season ahead, the first time that has happened since they were dumped out against Progres Niederkorn back in 2017.

This result belongs in the same bracket as Progres. Make no mistake about it, in the hall of shame, this embarrassment ranks right up there.

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The performance Rangers served up would have made your eyes bleed. Leading 1-0 from the first leg, Jablonec took the tie to extra-time thanks to a goal from Vakhtang Tchanturishvili.

Rangers offered nothing. Zilch. The game plan looked nothing more than to try and scrape through by the skin of their teeth.

When the tie went to penalties, it was James Penrice and Findlay Curtis who missed. But only a fool would hold them responsible.

The very fact this tie went to penalties should illustrate the problems facing Rangers right now. McInnes is already under major pressure – and rightly so.

He has signed a dozen new players; six of them were in the starting line-up last night, and another two came off the bench.

This is his team. This result is on him as manager. How ironic that his old club, Hearts, are safely through to the group-stage of this competition after an excellent victory over Rapid Vienna.

Rapid Vienna are miles better than Jablonec. That didn’t stop Wouter Vrancken, another new manager piecing together a team with several new players, from leading Hearts to a terrific result.

The excuse about new players needing time to bed in is routinely the excuse of a manager who has made a poor start. For McInnes, there can be no such excuse.

Rangers should have had more than enough to get the job done against this level of opposition. But they failed. Plain and simple.

The strain on Derek McInnes is all too clear as his woeful start at the club reached a new low

McInnes stuck with the same 4-3-3 system that he had deployed over the last few matches, with Ryan Naderi once again getting the nod up front.

It was Naderi’s goal at Ibrox last week that ensured Rangers would take a 1-0 lead with them as they travelled to the Czech Republic for the second leg.

Lawrence Shankland once again started the match on the bench. We may only be at the end of August, but it is already clear that the newly appointed club captain is not a guaranteed first-pick.

With the £9million arrival of Kevin Kelsy from Portland Timbers now understood to be imminent, Shankland will face even stiffer competition for a place in the team from the Venezuelan international striker.

Much of the pitch at the Stadion Strelnice was still bathed in sunshine as kick-off approached. A small arena housing just shy of 6,000 fans, it almost looked like a pre-season friendly.

The start of the match certainly lacked intensity as both teams struggled to find any sort of rhythm or assert their authority on proceedings.

Dan Neil captained Rangers from the base of the midfield three and he soon cut a frustrated figure at the lack of movement and options ahead of him.

It was Jablonec who had the first clear sight of goal on 13 minutes when a neat through ball from Jan Suchan released Lamin Jawo in behind the Rangers defence.

Jawo only had Ivor Pandur to beat but he drilled his shot low into the side netting at the near post when he really ought to have gone across the goalkeeper.

Rangers continued to show no creativity in midfield or out wide. Starved of service, Naderi was no more than a passenger for the majority of the first half.

Given the paucity of what Rangers had served up during those opening 45 minutes, it was no surprise that McInnes made a triple substitution at half-time and changed the shape of the team.

Findlay Curtis reacts to his missed penalty as Rangers throw away their shoot-out advantage

On came Shankland, Findlay Curtis and Connor Barron; off went Neil, Daisuke Yokota and Djeidi Gassama. Given that Neil was captain, being hooked at half-time was a damning indictment on his performance.

Rangers initially looked brighter, with Curtis showing some pace and trickery to get at his full-back down the right flank.

There was a half-chance for Shankland early in the second half but his shot was quickly shut down by a couple of Jablonec defenders.

Rangers continued to live dangerously. They were cut wide open on the counter-attack on 53 minutes, with Richard Sedlacek racing clean through on goal. He fired his shot wide of target, only for the whistle to be blown for a marginal offside call. Regardless of being spared by the assistant’s flag, it was alarming just how easily Rangers had been exposed.

A one-goal lead always looked fragile and it was Jablonec who grew stronger as the match wore on. When the Czechs scored on 73 minutes, nobody could argue it hadn’t been coming.

The goal came down the left side of the Rangers defence, with Chanturishvili doing a Cruyff turn and selling a dummy to Penrice.

Chanturishvili drove forward inside the penalty area and fired a low shot towards goal, the ball taking a deflection as it flew past Pandur and into the net.

Plainly, Rangers could have no complaints. It had been an awful performance, completely devoid of any guile or artistry in midfield and forward areas.

Standing on the touchline in his collar and tie, the suit jacket had long since been removed for McInnes given the heat. He cut an animated figure, even exasperated at times.

Rangers had 15 minutes to try and find a response but they never even came remotely close. The fact they finished the 90 minutes with only one shot on target spoke volumes about the performance.

McInnes had made five substitutions, desperately seeking to find some kind of positive formula, but none of them really worked.

Substitute Connor Barron closes down Jiri Slama of Jablonec in his side’s awful defeat

It was just chopping and changing, throwing mud at a board and hoping that something would eventually stick. Even more galling was the fact that Jablonec themselves looked bang-average.

Rangers were a rabble, no plan whatsoever on the ball, no patterns of play. All of the brighter moments came from the home side as the game progressed into extra-time.

One last roll of the dice came with the introduction of Bojan Miovski at half-time in extra-time. Given that McInnes clearly hasn’t fancied Miovski thus far, that in itself spoke of the sheer desperation of it all.

Jablonec had another good chance when Filip Novak was allowed to turn and shoot inside the area, but Pandur got them out of jail by making a decent low save.

When the penalty shootout came around, Rangers had the initiative when Pandur saved Jablonec’s third spot-kick from Filip Zorvan. But Curtis and Penrice then missed successive spot-kicks; Curtis blazing his high over the bar and Penrice seeing his saved by Jan Hanus.

That left Jan Chramosta with the chance to win it for the Czechs – and he made absolutely no mistake as he blasted the ball past Pandur.

This was humiliation for Rangers, on a par with anything you’d care to mention over their recent history. Progres Niederkorn, Club Brugge, now Jablonec.

With a trip to face Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday, and back-to-back Old Firm games against Celtic in September, McInnes is already under serious pressure.