Ten-man Partick Thistle may have ground out an impressive point at Tynecastle on Saturday, but Stevie Lawless isn’t one for resting on his laurels.

In fact, the scorer of Thistle’s second goal at the weekend was already geeing his teammates up for their next game against Rangers on Sunday in the dressing room straight after the game in the capital.

The midfielder doesn’t want to end the season as the only side in the Premiership not to take at least a point off of the Ibrox side this season, and he sees no reason why the Jags can’t triumph against Pedro Caixinha’s men at Firhill.

Especially when they have managed a draw against Celtic away from home recently, who Lawless says are a far better side this season.

“I was running my mouth off in there as usual!” Lawless said. “It wasn’t like we all sat down and had a chat about it, I was just saying ‘Listen, any chance of us doing something against Rangers?’

“To be fair, I think I was just talking to myself really because nobody really said anything, I think the boys were still disappointed about us losing the late goal.

“But we’re all now looking forward to the Rangers game. I don’t think we’ve managed to land a punch against them this season, and I actually said that in the dressing room there.

“We seem to do better against Celtic for some reason, but we’re at home and we’ve got the fans behind us, so we’ll try to put in a better performance than we’ve managed to do at Ibrox the last two times.

“I don’t know why we’ve done better against Celtic. As you can tell, Celtic are the better team this year, but for whatever reason we’ve put in better performances against them.

“It’s one of those things that we have to try and rectify next week.

“You would think Rangers would be easier to get at, and looking at the league you would think that it would be harder to get a result against Celtic, but we managed that at a hard venue.

“It’s just one of those things that we need to try and put our finger on, and hopefully we get the three points.”

Thistle thought they had done enough to gain three points against Hearts on Saturday as Kris Doolan headed them in front just after the break, before Danny Devine was sent off in conceding a penalty.

Devine threw himself in front of a Don Cowie shot, with referee Andrew Dallas awarding a spot-kick for handball and a second yellow card along with it.

Lawless then stunned Tynecastle into silence though by immediately moving the Jags back in front with a cute finish from a Chris Erskine pass, before a late Andraz Struna leveller denied Thistle a hard-fought victory.

“I thought I had scored the winner,” Lawless said. “Obviously, it was going to be backs against the wall, but I thought we had it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be.

“The keeper made my mind up for me, if I don’t see him coming then I probably just smash it with my right foot and God knows where it would have ended up.

“As soon as I saw him out of the corner of my eye I knew that I could just roll it around the side of him.

“I think it would have been easy for us to just put the tools away. Getting to the top six is obviously a big achievement.

“We got the goal though and then the sending off came, and I’ve not seen it back, but at the time I thought it was harsh.

“It would have been easy then for us to just chuck it and settle for a sob story, but we managed to get the second goal and hang on until really late.

“I think it was a deflection as well that took the ball to him, but to be fair, they put us under a lot of pressure. We almost hung in there.”