PEDRO CAIXINHA is pleased with the reaction of his Rangers squad in the aftermath of their Premiership defeat to Hibernian.

The Light Blues were beaten 3-2 by Neil Lennon’s side at the weekend as they missed out on back-to-back league victories.

The visit of Hearts is next on the Gers’ agenda on Saturday as they look to get back to winning ways at the first attempt.

And boss Caixinha is confident his side will strive for further improvement and get better with time this term.

“Stronger and with even more desire to work and do the things even better,” he told RangersTV. “The best answer is always work harder.

“Yesterday (Monday) the boys came back into training, half did recovery and those who hadn’t played or had played less time gave me one of the best sessions ever since we arrived.

“They need to be focussed and work hard now on the next game for us because that is the only option we have now.

“We have been great in the way we approach the game, the way we get into the game, the way we started the first 20 minutes was really brilliant.

“I believe the scoring chances we created were more than enough to be a comfortable result to control the game. I was very pleased with the boys for that, they did that very well and they want to keep it that way.

“Along the way we will reach half-time and not always be winning games by 3-0 or 2-0 so we need to understand that sometimes it is important for us to control the tempo.

“We always win so at least if we don’t win we learn, so we never lose. What we learnt from this game is that we need to control the ball a little bit more in some moments because they equalised around 20-21 minutes and before that we had four easy losses which gave confidence to the opponent.

“Those are the points we need to keep working on, the boys need to understand it and of course during this week we will be a lot more focussed on these things.”