Monday 20 February 2017 20:20, UK
Rangers caretaker manager Graeme Murty has insisted that the club must treat every remaining game like an Old Firm clash if they are to salvage European qualification this season.
The Gers suffered their first defeat at Dundee in 25 years on Sunday and sit third in the league, six points behind second-place Aberdeen, and 30 points behind league leaders and rivals Celtic.
Sunday's defeat at Dens Park was labelled "unacceptable" by Murty, as the club fell further adrift of Aberdeen, and have St Johnstone and Dundee gaining on them.
Rangers travel to Inverness on Friday night and Murty has insisted the club must start treating games with more importance.
"I can't talk about anything before this game (against Dundee), but whenever Rangers run into town there's an expectation and there is an intensity that goes up from the opposition," Murty told Rangers' official TV channel.
"I would suggest that it's very similar to when Celtic came to us before the new year, in the fact of the way we started the game. We got right in 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 impose our intensity upon them rather than accepting what they are going to give us.
"I can't see it anything but the same when we go to Inverness. They are going to be in our faces, they are going to look at us and say 'we've an opportunity to upset people'.
"Playing for Rangers you have to accept that, you have to actually relish the fact that they are going to come and give us it and then say 'right, fine, we're still going to play, we're still going to be brave and we're going to match everything you've got and we're going to be better than you'.
"That goes across age groups, across teams and particularly at the point of the spear with the first team, you have to actually accept that and that's just par for the course.
"So when you walk onto the football pitch be in no doubt that is what they are going to bring, you have to be ready, you have to be mentally ready and physically ready and be brave enough to execute the game plan as well."
