Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Murty wants to see Gers battle
CARETAKER boss Graeme Murty reckons Rangers need to treat each of their 13 remaining Premiership games like an Old Firm battle if they are to save their European ambitions.
The stand-in boss fumed at his players on Sunday as they suffered their first away defeat to Dundee in a quarter of a century.
He labelled their performance at Dens Park “unacceptable” and accused the Light Blues line-up of failing to match the Dark Blues’ physicality.
Murty expects Rangers to put on a display of resistance when they travel to Celtic Park next month to face Brendan Rodgers’ rampant leaders.
But the former Reading defender believes it will take another dozen fired-up showings if they are to avoid a nightmare finish and fail to claim one of three potential Europa League slots available.
Murty — who looks likely to still be in charge when the I brox men travel to Inverness on Friday night — said:“Whenever Rangers run into town there’s an expectation and there is an intensity that goes up from the opposition.
“I would suggest that it’s very similar to when Celtic came to us before NewYear, in the fact of the way we started the game. We got right i n their faces, put them on the back foot and really took the game to them. I thought it was an excellent start.
“We need to match that intensity when we are playing other teams and actually i mpose our intensity upon them rather than accepting what they are going to give us.”