Rangers Win Big! Fans Rally Behind Team Despite Upset Losses
Goalkeeper Jack Butland insists Rangers still have a "brilliant opportunity" to lift the Scottish Premiership title despite recent setbacks and trailing leaders Hearts by six points with nine matches remaining. Losing their Scottish Cup quarter-final to Celtic on penalties last weekend means Danny Rohl's side's only chance of silverware this term is the league title. Butland insists the Ibrox side are well placed to mount a real challenge between now and the end of the season.
"The biggest thing to do is to focus on what we have done, where we've come from," he explained. "We've been in written off so many times this year. We were nowhere near it and we've got ourselves back in a fight with a real chance still.
"The easiest thing to do in this scenario within the last couple of weeks is that you focus on the negatives, which is what everyone loves to do the most. "That's the most important thing for us as a squad, to realise what we've done to this point, but to take that and make sure that we carry it into the last nine games of the season. " "I don't think there's anyone that would look back at this group in September, October last year and think that it was capable.
"You get to this end of the season and one draw is like a complete damning opinion of everybody that we're not good enough anymore. That's just the nature of playing at this football club and what's expected of you. "We've been in a lot worse position than we are right now.
We're in a great position with the opportunity within a couple of weekends. " Celtic sit one point clear of Rangers in second place and could open up a four point gap if they defeat Motherwell at home on Saturday afternoon. Hearts could also move nine points clear of the Ibrox side when they travel to Kilmarnock that evening, with Rangers facing St Mirren away on Sunday.