Rangers left-back Tuur Rommens insists Rangers will play with “full drive” of their Scottish Premiership journey to face Celtic on Sunday, wanting to make sure they’ll obtain Champions League soccer subsequent season.
Defeat in opposition to leaders Hearts left Rangers with little hope of successful the league title, now trailing the Tynecastle aspect by seven factors with simply three video games remaining.
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Celtic are 4 factors forward of the Ibrox aspect with defeat guaranteeing that Rangers will end in third place and out of the equation for Champions League soccer.
When requested if he felt if Rangers can reproduce the first-half efficiency in opposition to Hearts, after they led 1-0, for the total match and beat Celtic, Rommens mentioned: “I do not know, however I believe we go in full drive and naturally we predict that we are able to take one thing there.
“It is a huge stadium, nice ambiance, in fact it is a derby, so it will likely be intense.
“Should you play Celtic or one other staff, it is all the time concerning the subsequent recreation and I believe additionally for the supporters, for ourselves, for the membership, it is a huge one on Sunday, so we simply must win additionally for this Champions League place.
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“It is a huge factor to complete this season in a great way and simply win these three video games and get the idea for subsequent 12 months. Simply go full on subsequent 12 months.”
The Belgian insists the squad are absolutely behind head coach Danny Rohl, who has confronted criticism this week following back-to-back defeats in opposition to Motherwell and Hearts.
“Sure, for positive,” he mentioned. “It has been intense. The consequence [against Hearts] was not good, all people is aware of that.
“The mentality on this group is nice. We now have no points with that. I do not suppose it is about mentality, perhaps slightly little bit of focus however I do not suppose it is with mentality.
“If you end up one level behind two video games in the past and also you misplaced the 2 video games after, in fact, it is a possibility that you just misplaced. You can not say the rest.”
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