Steven Gerrard was pleased with the outcome yesterday, but he wants more from his team in the aftermath of the vital win at Aberdeen.
He watched his men charge 22 points clear thanks to a brace from Alfredo Morelos.
Speaking to Rangers TV at Pittodrie post match, manager Gerrard said, “Aberdeen is a tough challenge, whether at home or away and we have taken nine points from nine.”
“I am very pleased with the outcomes of the three games. I felt we were excellent today to get two in front.”
“I thought we were excellent even before the sending off as we were asking a lot of questions and were really good in possession and our standards and mentality were top.”
“I thought the game became a little bit too easy for some at 2-0, and we started playing a little bit of walking football which can’t be the case.”
“At 2-0, we have to turn the screw, and fine-tune even more, have balance behind the ball and make sensible decisions.”
“So we will certainly look into the game to try and improve from it, but the outcome of the game is what we have come for and it was another important win and the run goes on.”
“We have a full week into Motherwell now so we are in a right good place.”
“We always seem to find a performance here. Even the game we drew 2-2 here, we were outstanding up to that point.”
“We had some real, scary moments here today which is through our own doing, but credit to Aberdeen, they tried to stay in the game. We had an idea they would always try to keep the one goal deficit.”
“At 2-0, we needed to really play with more experience and more control, and unfortunately, we never did that.”
As mentioned above, the extra time on the training pitch really seems to have worked in Rangers favour. They had more verve and more flair than in recent weeks as well as causing Aberdeen problems right from the start in what was an aggressive, attacking display.
Rangers fans will be hoping for more of the same this Sunday at Fir Park.