GRAEME MURTY insists his Rangers squad have the belief that they can win at Parkhead and spoil Celtic’s title party.
The Light Blues make the trip across Glasgow tomorrow for the final Old Firm clash of the season.
The 4-0 Scottish Cup defeat is still fresh in the memory.
But boss Murty is confident the Gers can delay the celebrations as Celtic bid for seven-in-a-row.
He said: “It is good in a way in that it has come around so soon. We have an opportunity to get that one out of our minds. But we only get it out of our minds if we take care of our business better than we did previously.
“We can stop them celebrating. That would be a good thing for our psyche and our club.
“You have got to make sure that you control your emotion so it becomes a positive. It can’t be a drain. You can’t get too frantic. There always has to be thought behind what you do.
“The players will be left in no doubt about their roles and the requirements of any Rangers team going to Parkhead in terms of the aggression and the fight that we have walking onto the football pitch.
“They have to have it (belief) when they walk onto the pitch. I have to help them with it, but they have to carry it onto the pitch with them.
“From what I have seen in the games that we have had against them we have the quality to go and cause them problems. As I said previously, it is about taking that next step and going and winning the game.”
Murty has earned two draws in his two previous Parkhead clashes as Gers boss.
And he knows they must improve from their abject Hampden horror show.
Murty said: “In the games that I have had against Celtic it is the only time we haven’t laid a glove on them. We didn’t deliver the intensity that we had done previously.
“I have looked at the past games at Parkhead, where we have taken draws and possibly been unlucky not to get more from the games, and looked at the reasons for that and looked at the intensity that we have brought into that.
“That has been the message to the players – it has been about us being on the front foot and getting in people’s faces.
“It is just to execute what we do and present ourselves better than we did in the previous game. But, as I said, in three our of the four games I have taken against Celtic we have represented ourselves really well and been unlucky not to take three points. That is the mindset I want.”
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