LET’S HIT THEM WHERE IT MURTS

GRAEME MURTY has challenged his players to put Rangers in a position to hunt Celtic down in their final eight league games by winning tomorrow’s Old Firm crunch.

And the Light Blues boss reckons a win at Ibrox could see the pressure shift to Parkhead after Brendan Rodgers claimed the derby heat is all on Gers.

Murty is undefated in two games against Hoops boss Brendan Rodgers and said: “Celtic are top of the league and we’re still chasing them.

“And whether we chase them down or not won’t just be on this one game - it will be on the games after it. So we have to make sure what we do, from Sunday, is put ourselves in as good a position as possible to go and chase them down.

“I honestly don’t know if us winning would mean there is a title race but until it’s mathematically impossible we’re up there.

“This is meaningful in that it’s an Old Firm game. It’s a massive game and will never be anything other than massive.

“I’ve got a group of fans coming to the ground hopeful of a really good performance and gaining three points against our opponent. We’ve won six in a row but this is the biggest test. If we were to win it then it would add to our confidence.

“It would make us start to say ‘Do you know what, we’re a good team’. But we have to make sure we continue our improvement because we’re not the finished article as yet.”

“If we win the game it would be beneficial to our players and show them we are closer than we have been for a long time.”