Monday 3 October 2016 10:35, UK
Niko Kranjcar reckons Rangers should put thoughts of a title challenge to the back of their minds until Christmas.
Gers avoided registering their worst start to a league campaign since 1989 with Saturday's 2-0 win over Partick Thistle.
The victory - just their third of the Ladbrokes Premiership campaign so far - moves the Light Blues up to fifth but they remain seven points adrift of rampant leaders Celtic, who have a game in hand.
The former Tottenham and QPR midfielder - Gers' stand-out performer against Thistle - said: "I think at the moment we shouldn't think about it. I think we should think about winning the next game.
"It is not in our hands in respect of the points we've dropped already. I think we learned that the most important game is the next one coming up.
"We can talk come Christmas where we are in the title race.
"The one thing that is important for us is to concentrate on ourselves and rising our level of football and hopefully winning the next game that comes our way."
The Ibrox men were thrashed 5-1 by Celtic in last month's Old Firm showdown and the teams will meet again on October 23 after being paired in the Betfred Cup semi-finals.
But Kranjcar is refusing to focus on a derby revenge mission until their next game against Inverness in a fortnight is addressed.
"We have a game before the Celtic match, which is points in the league," he said. "We all enjoy playing the big games against Celtic but obviously we didn't enjoy the last one.
"We are all looking forward to the next one but we are going to talk about that one we get Inverness away out of the way. We can talk about Celtic then."
