The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Rangers look to build on Caixinha’s winning start
RANGERS 4 HAMILTON 0
Jon Toral is looking forward to Rangers spending the international break building on Pedro Caixinha’s successful start as manager.
A 4-0 Ladbrokes Premiership win over Hamilton at Ibrox on Saturday kept the Light Blues eight points behind second-placed Aberdeen.
Goals from midfielder Emerson Hyndman and veteran defender Clint Hill had the home side on easy street at the interval, with a Martyn Waghorn penalty and a strike from captain Lee Wallace making it a good day for the Portuguese boss.
Rangers host Motherwell in two weeks and midfielder Toral, whose free-kick was knocked in by Hill for his third goal in as many games, hopes further progress will be made by then.
The 22-year-old Spaniard, on loan from Arsenal, said: “It is a good start under the new manager.
“He changed a couple of things but the lads understood what he wanted and I think we are going to get better.
“We have two weeks on the training pitch where he will insist on the things he wants to implement.
“He has asked us to press harder, keep possession and create more chances and that is what we are going to try to do, and work on the training pitch.”
Caixinha has his sights on the in-form Dons. “We still need to play against them twice,” he said.
Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald praised “outstanding” Tomas Cerny, even though an error from the goalkeeper gifted Kilmarnock a point in the 1-1 Premiership match at Rugby Park.
Chris Erskine looked to have secured victory for the Jags when he struck after 73 minutes but the visitors were denied all three points when Cerny allowed Conor Sammon’s late, tame effort to squirm out of his grasp.
Meanwhile, Ross County boss Jim McIntyre felt his side’s point from the 1-1 draw with Inverness could be important come the end of the season.
Results around them at the bottom of the table went their way, and a point lifted them closer to Dundee in eighth.
It had looked like Caley Thistle were going to take all three points through Greg Tansey’s deflected shot, but Alex Schalk’s composed finish with five minutes to go earned a share of the spoils.