Rangers have made a “statement” by moving to within three points of Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts – but head coach Danny Rohl says moving above Celtic into second place is “still not what we want”.<\/p>\n
The Ibrox side eased past Aberdeen 2-0 at home to record their 10th win in 13 league games since Rohl took charge in October.<\/p>\n
Rangers were 13 points adrift of the surprise league leaders at that time and sat sixth in the division, having won just once in eight games.<\/p>\n
Since then, though, only Hearts have beaten them in the Premiership, with the Glasgow side’s under-the-radar run propelling them into title contention with almost half of the campaign to unfold.<\/p>\n
And while Rohl was wary of making grand statements about what his side may or may not do over the next 17 games – starting with a rematch with Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday – he refused to rule out just a second title in 15 years.<\/p>\n
“I’m very proud of the group at the moment,” the former Sheffield Wednesday boss told BBC Sport Scotland.<\/p>\n
“We close the gap to just three points from 13 when I arrived. It’s a statement but still not what we want. We’re on a journey. It’s about the next game on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“When I took over two years ago at Sheffield Wednesday, we were 12, 13 points under the line. In the end we survived. In football everything is possible.<\/p>\n
“It’s about small steps, belief, bringing confidence back and trusting the players. At the moment we’re in a good way but have a lot of things to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rangers have made a “statement” by moving to within three points of Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts – but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-356794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}