Mark Warburton: Big Rangers win will not strike fear

Rangers boss Mark Warburton watched his side put on the best display of his Ibrox reign - but still does not reckon it was enough to have their potential William Hill Scottish Cup opponents running scared.

The Light Blues were rampant as they brushed past top-flight Dundee with a stunning 4-0 Ibrox triumph.

Harry Forrester blasted Gers ahead inside 13 seconds and three second-half strikes from Jason Holt, Andy Halliday and Lee Wallace put the seal on Dundee's demise.

Warburton's side will discover late on Sunday afternoon who they will face in the last four of the competition.

But despite the emphatic nature of his side's victory, the Englishman does not believe it will have intimidated their eventual Hampden adversaries.

I don't think anyone fears anyone,'' he said.If you're in the semi-final of a trophy, who are you going to fear?

Our job, whoever we face, is to do well. Don't forget, it's only seven and a half months since this team came together. All credit to them for the way they have applied themselves and they deserved today's result.

But they are a young side and teams in the semi-finals won't fear anyone I'm sure.''

The Championship leaders are now just 180 minutes from a return to European competition for the first time since their liquidation meltdown in 2012.

But Warburton is not getting carried away, saying: We've won nothing yet. We're delighted to be in tomorrow's draw for the semi-finals and our league position is great.

But there's no point us getting too excited too early. We''ll just focus on the next game and the three points against Morton on Friday is vitally important for us.''

The Ibrox faithful were barely in the seats by the time they were leaping up to celebrate Forrester's opener. Kevin Holt got caught in possession by the Gers winger, who darted into the box before slamming past Scott Bain.

Dundee were relieved to get to half-time without further damage but they were again undone 90 seconds into the second period as Holt finished off a fine team move.

Halliday's free-kick on 55 minutes put Warburton's team out of sight before Wallace wrapped up victory with his solo effort seven minutes from time.

It was another challenge today but we put on a really pleasing performance from the first whistle,'' said Warburton.

We set out tempo and intensity and got the early goal. All credit to Harry Forrester, that's three in three now.

But it was all round the park we performed. We were defensively strong. That's seven clean sheets in nine matches. A lot is made of our forward play but don't forget that is a tremendous statement by the back five. It was a really good day's work.''

Dark Blues boss Paul Hartley, however, was left distraught by his side's sloppy start to both halves.

I'm extremely disappointed with the manner of the start,'' he said.

The last thing we said to them before we went out was make sure you have a good start to the game.

We were a goal down after 13 seconds and what does to the home team, it just gives them a massive lift.

We have got to be honest with ourselves and say Rangers totally deserved to win today and we didn't perform.''