Murty planning to break Dundee down as Rangers look to bounce back
Last updated 21st Nov 2017
Rangers caretaker manager Graeme Murty is focused on hatching a plan to break Dundee down despite the pain and anger of their home defeat to Hamilton.
Murty's chances of landing the job on a longer-term basis suffered a blow when a 2-0 victory handed Accies their first maximum points from Ibrox since 1926.
But all the signs are that Murty will get at least one more game in charge when Rangers travel to Dens Park on Friday.
And the club's development coach senses his players are determined to atone for Saturday's disappointment when they face the Ladbrokes Premiership bottom club.
`There are some hurt and angry players in there, which is good and is how it should be,'' he told the club's official website.
`There are some hurt and angry staff too, but I think it is important personally we don't get too high when we get a success and we don't get too low when we get a tough one to take.
`We just need to maintain our personal standards of preparation and performance, and the players definitely had a good response this week.
`You don't have to motivate people who know they want to put things right, and that's the vibe I have had from the players.'
Rangers missed a catalogue of chances against Accies but Murty is gearing training towards the challenge of facing Neil McCann's team rather than simply working on finishing drills.
`I thought when we didn't get the goal, we became a bit frantic and a bit anxious, and we stopped doing the things we did in the first half that had got us into such good situations so often,'' he said.
`We are working on the specifics of Dundee, and how we think we can break them down and how we think we can get opportunities from that, and putting players in those situations so they can recognise them, and then hopefully be clinical from there.'