{"id":514158,"date":"2026-03-02T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514158\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:06:08","slug":"rangers-john-souttar-says-judge-sides-menality-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514158\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers: John Souttar says judge side&#8217;s menality at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers were also accused of slacking off in the draw with Motherwell at Fir Park, when they conceded late on despite their hosts being reduced to 10 men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dropped points away to bottom side Livingston &#8211; who have won once all season &#8211; after the rousing win over Hearts at Ibrox also halted the momentum of Danny Rohl&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Souttar says Rangers need to replicate the level they showed in the first half of the Old Firm derby across the final nine games of the league campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The crowd was up, we were playing in their half, fast, aggressive football and we were the same against Hearts at home,&#8221; the 29-year-old Scotland and former Hearts defender said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we&#8217;ve got to do it for the full game. There&#8217;s no point doing it for 45 to 50 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to keep that going for the full game and, yes, there&#8217;ll be periods where we can&#8217;t do that the full game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Celtic are also Rangers&#8217; next opponents, in Sunday&#8217;s Scottish Cup quarter-final, again at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Celtic are a good side, there&#8217;ll be moments when they have possession, when they play their game and it&#8217;s important then that we&#8217;re a bit more experienced and we get into a shape and we&#8217;re difficult to play through,&#8221; Souttar added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers were also accused of slacking off in the draw with Motherwell at Fir Park, when they conceded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-514158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}