KENNY MILLER admits the lure of a European return is an added incentive for Rangers in their bid for Scottish Cup glory this season.

Mark Warburton’s side face Kilmarnock at Ibrox tomorrow aiming to continue their impressive recent run of form and to progress to the last eight of the competition.

The Gers would clinch a Europa League berth if they could go all the way and lift the silverware at Hampden in May.

Winning the Championship crown is Rangers’ main aim this term but Miller insists there is no reason why Warburton’s side shouldn’t dream of cup success.

He said: “Of course [we can win it]. Why can we not win the cup?

“We’re a good team. We’ve got some fantastic players.

“To win a cup, you’re probably going to need a little bit of luck along the way, whether it be in the draw or in an actual game, but we want to win the cup.

“We want to be as a successful as we can, which means winning the league, winning the Petrofac and winning the Scottish Cup.

“To do that, we’re going to have to get past Killie on Saturday. That’s the first step.

“Of course [Europe] is [an incentive]. It’s an added incentive for the last 16 teams that are in it.

“It’s an opportunity to get to the highest level of football you can play in, which is European competition.

“Yes, it’s the Europa League, it’s not the Champions League. But, for us at the moment, that’s within the immediate targets.”

The Killie clash will be Rangers’ second outing of the season against a top flight team and Warburton’s side head into the tie favourites to progress to the quarter-finals.

St Johnstone were 3-1 winners when they made the trip to Ibrox on League Cup duty earlier in the campaign but Miller insists there is no greater significance to the Premiership tests.

He said: “It was always going to get levelled at us because it was this team’s first game against Premiership opposition but we could have lost that game whether we were in the Championship or the Premiership.

“Rangers have lost games against so-called smaller teams in cups. It is a wee bit tiring when you keep referring to that game.

“This is going to be a different game against different opponents. Since that game, this team has come on leaps and bounds.

“It’s not to say that, whether we were in the top league or not, we wouldn’t get beat by a Kilmarnock, a St Johnstone, a Dundee United or a Hearts or Hibs in a cup competition.

“I don’t think it’s a barometer of where we are. Yes, it’s a test to see if we’re going to be up to it if we go back up, but it’s a game of football that we want to win.”