Brian Laudrup reckons Michael Beale and his Rangers players will have major regrets over Sunday's League Cup final.

The Ibrox hero was in attendance at Hampden as he worked as a pundit for Viaplay and he was far from impressed by his former side.

Rangers were put to the sword by their rivals Celtic with Kyogo Furuhashi scoring two, and Alfredo Morelos scoring a consolation late in the second period.

Laudrup has now questioned Beale's team selection for the contest, despite seeing where the Ibrox manager was coming from.

He wrote in the Daily Mail: "For Michael Beale and many of his Rangers players, Sunday's Viaplay Cup final will be a source of some lingering regrets. Celtic weren't particularly great at Hampden, I think that's fair to say, but they still thoroughly deserved the season's first trophy given the holes in the performance of their rivals.

"Midfield was the biggest issue for Rangers. In my mind, one lesson is that the energy and positivity of new signings Nicolas Raskin and Todd Cantwell must be front and centre for the remainder of this season. In the case of Raskin, in particular, I would have liked to have seen him involved much earlier against Celtic.

"I really felt he had the skillset to cause Ange Postecoglou's side some problems and said so last week. I like him a lot. That opinion hasn't changed after the way Sunday panned out. If anything, Raskin and Cantwell now appear even more important to the way ahead under Beale.

"Leaving Hampden, I had this nagging feeling that if something had changed at half-time, with fresher legs from these newer players who don't have a history of losing Old Firm games, then perhaps we might have seen more from Rangers. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

"I was a little bit surprised when I saw the starting line-up, but I understood the logic as explained by Beale. He was going with experience. He wanted players who knew the fixture and had been at the club for a certain period of time. That's fair enough. But it backfired in this case."

Laudrup also reckons Fashion Sakala will have a lot of learning to do after his pre-match comments came back back to bite him following the Hampden tussle.

The Zambian missed a sitter and was non-existent in the game after branding Celtic the "other mob" in the build-up and also claiming Rangers are the best team in the country.

Laudrup added: "I think another lesson was the one painfully learned by Sakala. He spoke a lot before the game, saying Rangers were better than Celtic, but didn't back it up at all. Sakala's performance was poor. He had a huge chance to score in the second half and didn't take it.

"You love his pace. It's such a great asset, but his technique is unreliable at times. In the end, there wasn't much behind his talk. He fell flat on his face, unfortunately, and so did Rangers. His words look silly today. Listen, everyone around football is all part of an entertainment industry, really, and it's no crime for a footballer to make headlines with some good quotes. But in the future, I think Beale will definitely want him to do his talking on the pitch."