MARCH TO HOT HAGI THRIVING ON RUN-IN
Gerrard: This month gives us the chance to get over the line, we don’t want to wait and we don’t want to stumble
RANGERS’ combined firepower has been blowing their rivals away all season.
But over the last few weeks, three players have emerged as boss Steven Gerrard’s go-to attacking trio.
And although it may have taken him a little longer than he would have wished, Ianis Hagi is ending this campaign like a runaway Romanian train.
Last Thursday, Hagi teamed up again with Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos to put on a performance against Royal Antwerp which was rated by boss Gerrard as the best of a campaign which has been laden with goals since its start.
The 22-year-old now plans to make sure it goes out with an appropriate bang as Rangers close in on a first domestic title in 10 years as well as a place in the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
Hagi said: “The most beautiful thing is we are all different as attackers – everybody has his own qualities – and that makes us really unpredictable.
“We’d like to build on that performance and have that type of performance when the team needs us, especially on European nights and big games in the league.
“We’re so different but we understand ourselves so well that it makes us unpredictable. There will be moments in any season when you win games 1-0. You just do your job.
“But there will be other games when the players are red hot.
“At the end of the day the three points is all that matters.”
Hagi, though, intends to keep his feet firmly on the ground as Gers prepare to scale the heights again tonight at Livingston.
He went on: “There is a lot of excitement but the most important thing is to have the same target we’ve had the entire season, look at the next game and that’s Livingston. Get the job done, get the three points.
“Everybody knows what position we are in right now and obviously you know how close you are to achieve something great, not only for the club but also individually as players.
“I’m enjoying my football a lot lately.
“When you get closer to the end of the season games with pressure come, like the knock-out stages of the Europa League and that’s a fact of football that I love.
“That has a role to play in my enjoyment but the team is playing really well, we’re winning most of our games, and I can’t not enjoy the football we are playing.”