Butland was pleased ‘to contribute’ with his wonder save at Killie

JACK Butland claims Rangers just keeping look ahead to the next challenge after their 2-1 win against Kilmarnock on Wednesday night kept them two points clear of Celtic at the top of the cinch Premiership.

Killie had beaten Michael Beale’s Rangers 1-0 on the opening league game of the season, but found successor Philippe Clement’s Light Blues more robust – eventually.

Danny Armstrong scored with an 11th-minute penalty after his cross had struck the arm of John Lundstram before Butland made a great save from Matty Kennedy’s closerange strike early in the second half.

Two goals in four minutes – a trademark free-kick from Rangers captain James Tavernier and a Tom Lawrence strike – made it 11 wins in a row for Rangers to keep them ahead of the Hoops.

Butland told Rangers TV: “We just keep going. Three points is all that matters at the minute.

“Yes, we’d love to have a clean sheet – penalties are frustrating – but we’re getting the wins and that’s what we need to do.

“There’s never any panic, we just remained calm, kept reiterating at half-time why we’re in the position we are in and how we’ve got there.

“And we just continued to do that in the second half, remained calm and in the end we got two brilliant finishes from Tav and Tom and I guess it’s three points that we were after.”

Butland enjoyed his reflex save from Kennedy, diving low to his right, saying: “I think the lad thought he had scored so it’s nice to be able to have that moment. That can sometimes take the wind out of a team’s sails.

“It seemed to give us a lift. It could have gone a little bit sideways if that goes in so it was nice to contribute with that.”

Jack Butland is taking one game at a time.