Graeme Murty shares Danny Wilson’s half-time message to Rangers teammates

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Glasgow Rangers picked up an important win in the Scottish Premiership, but the Ibrox side were well short of their best.

Graeme Murty has told Rangers’ official YouTube channel that Danny Wilson left his Gers teammate in no doubt at half-time of their Scottish Premiership clash with Hibernian that they were lucky to be leading.

Murty’s men went into the game at Easter Road looking to make it four wins on the bounce for the first time since December 2016, but they got off to a poor start with Neil Lennon’s men taking the lead inside nine minutes.

Despite going into the final few minutes of the half still one goal behind, Rangers managed to go into the break leading as goals from Josh Windass and Alfredo Morelos saw the visitors turn the game on its head in around five minutes.

But despite getting themselves in front, Murty explained after the game that centre-back Wilson made sure that the rest of the team were fully aware of what he made of their first-half display.

“Danny Wilson actually came in, not ranting and raving, but firmly said that ‘we’re lucky because we haven’t started yet’. And I would agree with that, I didn’t think we started in the first-half,” he told the club’s official YouTube channel.

“I didn’t think we moved the ball well enough. Obviously Kenny going off disrupted us slightly but we were far too reactive to what Hibs were doing.

“We didn’t actually manage to impose a style upon the game, and as I said, I thought that all over the pitch we were a little bit loose but you have to come to places like this, you have to endure pressure. Sometimes you have to ride your luck.”

Rangers would ride their luck in the second-half – Hibs hit the post twice and David Bates was lucky not to give a penalty away – but they did manage to hold on and claim a hugely important three points that leaves them in second in the top flight.

And the boost they will get from picking up another three points when they are clearly not at their best will give them plenty of belief ahead of their home clash with St Johnstone this weekend.