GRAEME MURTY reckons Alfredo Morelos showed his class as he recovered from his Somerset Park sitter to fire Rangers into the Scottish Cup quarter-finals.

The striker missed a glorious chance to pull the Light Blues level as he ballooned an effort over the bar from a couple of yards out.

But he made amends with two instinctive finishes to help the Gers to a 6-1 win over Ayr United.

Murty said: “We have always said Alfredo misses chances but you have to be there to miss them and it took a high level of technique to finish like he did because I’d have side-footed the hell out of it rather than lash it like he did.

“I would have been properly safe and that’s the measure of a striker as opposed to a defender, he was the optimist and I’m the pessimist. He finished it well and I’m pleased.

“His partnership with Jason is work in progress, as we are as a squad. You’re not seeing the best of us at the moment but the beginning of the journey we’re on and there were brief flashes where it was good and areas it can get better and that will come the more they play and train together.

“The guys who came on had chances as well. We have goals in the squad and must just tighten up in other areas.”

Morelos wasn’t the only one that had a moment to forget against the Honest Men but it was a case of all’s well that ends well for Rangers.

Wes Foderingham gifted Ayr the lead with a first half howler as Alan Forrest bundled the ball over the line.

Murty said: “We made it a little bit more difficult because the goal gave them a lift but it’s about people being accountable and taking ownership of that and he did that.

“I’ve got no problem with Wes. If we’re going to play out from the back and shift the ball then he’s going to have the ball at his feet. I’m comfortable with that - although I don’t want it happening too often.”