Philippe Clement is adamant under-pressure Rangers will focus fully on playing to their own strengths in Sunday바카라s Scottish Cup semi-final with Hearts. (More Football News)
The Ibrox side head into the Hampden showdown on the back of a damaging run of two wins from their last eight games in all competitions, with their cinch Premiership title bid having been dented significantly by a return of just two points from their last three matches.
Hearts, by contrast, go into the match buoyed by back-to-back wins over St Mirren and Livingston and are 11 points clear of their nearest rivals in their quest to secure third place in the table.
Clement dismissed any notion that his side must adapt their game-plan in any way to deal with Steven Naismith바카라s on-form team and instead must simply attempt to play their own game to a higher standard than they have been recently.
바카라I don바카라t counter anything,바카라 he said. 바카라We will play our own game, we don바카라t need to counter another team.
바카라We are going to play our own game and believe in ourselves and show our qualities.
바카라To win we need a better performance than we had on Wednesday (in the 0-0 draw at Dundee), for sure. We need to do the right things against Hearts who have played a very good season.
바카라It바카라s a very interesting test for the players and I know they are all hungry to go to the final. They바카라ve had the experience of going to a final and winning it (the Viaplay Cup) and some of them have won several already so the mood is big.바카라
Clement felt some anxiety crept into Rangers바카라 play on Wednesday and caused them to go too direct, so he has called for them to rediscover their composure when in possession.
바카라Against Dundee we were too direct so we lost the balance in that way,바카라 he said. 바카라Sometimes we wanted to play too fast and it바카라s finding that good balance by showing it with images and what we need to do and take lessons out of that.
바카라Maybe the hunger was too big to go too fast forward. We need to find a good balance and do that in a better way against Hearts.바카라
Rangers have been subjected to ferocious criticism recently and Clement admits he will find out a lot about his players in terms of how they respond under pressure in the coming weeks.
바카라It is easy to be good and be happy when it goes easy,바카라 he said. 바카라It is when the going gets tough you see the personality and the character.
바카라Players can grow in this. It is a growing experience. It is not only from nature that you have this, you can grow in that.
바카라That is an important part of being part of this club. It is also something that Nils (Koppen, director of football recruitment) knows really well, it is something to look at in recruitment also.바카라
