Gordon Strachan doesn’t believe that the Premiership race is over for Rangers.
The gap is currently eight points after a disappointing weekend that saw Rangers draw 0-0 and Celtic win with almost the last kick of the game.
Many people think that it’s too big a gap to claw back but Strachan has said that everything is still to play for.
Talking of the weekend’s results, Strachan said in the Daily Record, “In the back of their heads they’re thinking the gap at the top might be down to three points. Then, by Monday morning, it’s actually eight points. That’s a huge body blow.
“You’ve always got it in the back of your mind that you can lose it. You’re always worried that you could be the guy who loses it. So the Rangers players will now be hoping to eat into it and try to put that added pressure on them.
“It’s eight points now but if they get it back down to three then that gives Celtic a real problem. How do they deal with that mentally?
“So that’s what Rangers have to be aiming for. To claw back a couple of points and try to get it back to within three points with three or four games to go.”
OPINION
There’s a very easy way to gain ground on Celtic and that’s to beat them in the next Old Firm game at Celtic Park at the end of March. Rangers absolutely dominated the last Old Firm game but going to their rivals’ home ground, with hardly any Rangers fans, will be an altogether different prospect. The game could be academic though. In the meantime they’ve really got to win every other game in the league and hope that Celtic slip up, and at the moment they just don’t look like doing that. Playing Jermain Defoe up front on his own isn’t working and Gerrard needs to find a solution to that problem, with Alfredo Morelos always capable of missing matches through suspension. It’s incredibly frustrating for Rangers fans who have had to watch their side hit the heights of the last Old Firm clash, only to see them plumb the depths against sides they should be beating easily like St Johnstone.